The Barbarians (Max Ernst, 1937)
Posted: April 2, 2013 Filed under: art, painting, pictures Leave a comment
A recent Artwork of the Day at the Met.
The ’70s
Posted: March 1, 2013 Filed under: America, photography Leave a comment
Do not miss these rad photos from the 1970s, from an EPA project to document “America’s Environmental Problems and Achievements,” found at the consistently terrific Big Picture.
Hanagami Danjo fights a giant salamander
Posted: February 25, 2013 Filed under: painting, pictures 1 Comment
Musashi
Posted: February 22, 2013 Filed under: heroes, painting, religion 4 Comments
Musashi having his fortune told
All Helytimes readers are familiar with Miyamoto Musashi’s work on strategy in Book Of Five Rings, but some may need to brush up on the Dokkodo, “The Path of Aloneness.”
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Accept everything just the way it is.
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Do not seek pleasure for its own sake.
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Do not, under any circumstances, depend on a partial feeling.
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Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world.
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Be detached from desire your whole life long.
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Do not regret what you have done.
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Never be jealous.
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Never let yourself be saddened by a separation.
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Resentment and complaint are appropriate neither for oneself nor others.
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Do not let yourself be guided by the feeling of lust or love.
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In all things have no preferences.
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Be indifferent to where you live.
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Do not pursue the taste of good food.
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Do not hold on to possessions you no longer need.
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Do not act following customary beliefs.
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Do not collect weapons or practice with weapons beyond what is useful.
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Do not fear death.
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Do not seek to possess either goods or fiefs for your old age.
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Respect Buddha and the gods without counting on their help.
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You may abandon your own body but you must preserve your honour.
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Never stray from the way.
self-portrait
Cats Suggested as the fifty-three stations of the Tokaido, by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1862)
Posted: February 20, 2013 Filed under: painting Leave a comment
“A picture of Musashi engaged in fantastic combat”
Posted: February 13, 2013 Filed under: adventures, animals, heroes, painting, pictures Leave a comment
That’s wikipedia’s caption for this picture by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798-1861)
Theory
Posted: January 18, 2013 Filed under: photography, the California Condition Leave a comment
If you take a picture of anything in California, then put it in black & white, you can pass it off as being by Ansel Adams.
“Whoa whoa whoa- I diddn’ know the guy!” “You one-a his guys?” “Don’t be crazy, lady! Jesus who?”
Posted: December 19, 2012 Filed under: LACMA, painting, pictures Leave a comment
LACMA has a good exhibit now called “CARAVAGGIO!” [subtitle: “A Couple Caravaggios And Some Guys Who Copied Caravaggio’s Tricks.”]
I like this one, The Denial of St. Peter, done by “Pensionante del Saraceni” ~1610.
LACMA tells me:
The Pensionante del Saraceni – literally “Saraceni’s boarder” – is the name given to a mysterious artist, somethimes considered to be French, who worked in Rome in the circle of Carlo Saraceni.”
This painting is from the Musee de la Chartruse in Douai, France. Let’s go there!
That’s Douai, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot painted it for us. OR DID HE?:
René Huyghe famously quipped that “Corot painted three thousand canvases, ten thousand of which have been sold in America”.
Laugh Kills Lonesome (1925)
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When Charles Russell died (a year after finishing this painting), all the kids in Great Falls, Montana, were let out of school to watch the funeral procession.
Airplane Travel
Posted: November 9, 2012 Filed under: art, painting, travel Leave a comment
Mural painted by Allen Tupper True in 1937 for The Brown Palace Hotel in Denver. Not sure if it’s still there, somebody in Denver have a look!
Near McKittrick, California
Posted: November 5, 2012 Filed under: photography, the California Condition Leave a comment
Boston Globe’s Big Picture is the king of Sandy photos
Posted: November 2, 2012 Filed under: photography Leave a comment
This particular one credited to Craig Ruttle/Associated Press
St. Wolfgang and the Devil (Michael Pacher c. 1483)
Posted: November 1, 2012 Filed under: painting, pictures Leave a comment
This was apparently painted on the backside of this:
Sunday Morning In The Mines, Charles Christian Nahl, 1872
Posted: October 17, 2012 Filed under: painting, pictures, the California Condition Leave a comment
The Faroe Islands
Posted: October 16, 2012 Filed under: photography, pictures Leave a comment
From The Atlantic’s In Focus, pure The Helytimes bait: photos of the Faroe Islands. These two are credited to Arne List.
Traditional Faroese food is mainly based on meat, seafood and potatoes and uses few fresh vegetables. Mutton is the basis of many meals, and one of the most popular treats is skerpikjøt, well aged, wind-dried mutton, which is quite chewy. The drying shed, known as a hjallur, is a standard feature in many Faroese homes, particularly in the small towns and villages. Other traditional foods are ræst kjøt (semi-dried mutton) and ræstur fiskur, matured fish. Another Faroese specialty is Grind og spik,pilot whale meat and blubber. (A parallel meat/fat dish made with offal is garnatálg.) Well into the last century, meat and blubber from a pilot whale meant food for a long time. Fresh fish also features strongly in the traditional local diet, as do seabirds, such as Faroese puffins, and their eggs. Dried fish is also commonly eaten.
Statue Storm!
Posted: October 16, 2012 Filed under: painting, pictures Leave a comment
“Oh SHIT!” I thought, as I lay in bed last night. “I’ve forgotten! What was the consequence of the ‘Letters from the Segovia Woods,’ written by Philip II of Spain to Margaret of Parma in 1565-66, wherein Philip rejected requests to abolish the laws against heresy in the Spanish Netherlands?!”
It’s a wonder I got to sleep at all, but I did. All night I was haunted, however, by dreams of Dutch Calvinists smashing Catholic art. My dreams looked like this:
When I woke up, it was with a smile.
“Of course,” I remembered. “The Letters from the Segovia Woods led to the ‘Beeldenstorm’ – the ‘statue storm’ – wherein angry Dutch Protestants destroyed Catholic iconography. Then the Duke of Alba shows up to repress the uprising, etc. etc., the 80 Years War is ON.”
Here, from the relevant Wikipedia page, is Bruegel the Elder’s painting The Preaching Of John The Baptist:
Who’s that looking back at us? Bruegel himself? I dunno, but here’s the kind of detail you’d get to see if you were at the Szépmûvészeti Múzeum, Budapest:
Hurricane, Bahamas (1898)
Posted: October 15, 2012 Filed under: painting, pictures Leave a comment
Winslow. Not on display at the Met.
Photos of Antarctica from The Atlantic
Posted: October 10, 2012 Filed under: adventures, photography 1 Comment
That snow’s not dirty – those are penguins. On South Georgia Island, a Norwegian whalers’ church:
See ’em big.
Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Posted: October 10, 2012 Filed under: California, painting, pictures Leave a commentGet a load of this dandy:
Born in Glasgow the year Seward bought Alaska from the Russians, one of twelve children, he became an architect. He designed this house which wasn’t built until 1996:
He had this idea for Liverpool Cathedral:
But they built this instead:
(Giles Gilbert Scott, the winning architect, was 22)
Frustrated with architecture, Rennie became a painter:
The fort in Port-Vendres, France? Or a mad vision of the PCH between Big Sur and San Francisco?
The Lighthouse, Glasgow:
Died 1928.
(Cathedral plan from here, everything else from Wikipedia per usual)
Photos by Sze Tsung Leong
Posted: October 9, 2012 Filed under: photography, pictures Leave a comment
ht bldgblog’s twitter. STL’s website.
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