“Homage To Giorgio Morandi”
Mathematical Tools in Holbein Painting
Detail of some mathematical tools from a 1553 painting by Hans Holbein The Younger, via Wikipedia.
South Wind from the Himalayas
“South Wind From The Himalayas” by Himachal Pradesh Guler, circa 1775. From the Met’s excellent exhibition “Wonder of the Age: Master Painters of India, 1100–1900“.
Tony Bechara
Tony Bechara’s noisy, minimalist paintings. This one above, titled August 7 (acrylic on linen/60×60″), is best viewed at a distance or with squinted eyes.
“Thinking of a Reply” by Matthew Brannon
Samuel Morse
Samuel Morse, inventor of Morse Code and the version of the mechanism we know as the telegraph also spent “the 1820s and 30s… traveling in England, France, Switzerland, and Italy to study painting.”
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Via: NPR
“Glorious job”
From Paul Thek’s 1973 notebook:
“We must discover WHY we are really painting, really WHY… painters are priests… IT IS A GLORIOUS JOB + WE… TRY ALWAYS HARDER + ALWAYS WE KNOW IT IS NEVER ENOUGH…”
Via: Artforum, January 2011, pg 167.