Today's artist without a (known) birthday: Taddeo Gaddi of Florence. Here, an Annunciation from the 1340s.
Study of the Head of a Blind Man
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens
Gustav Klimt
The Hallucinogenic Toreador (1969–70) uses repetition and negative spaces to create optical illusions. The same motif reappears until it clicks into a bullfighter, showing a masterful application of Dali's "paranoiac-critical method."
Densification and electrification in 1930s New York altered daily cycles by making the nights less dark. House at Dusk (1935) captures the hinge hour when the rising city glow meets the last light of domestic life.
Masayo Fukuda (Japanese Artist, born 1973)
"Octopus", 2018.
Kirie Style, 42 × 59.4 cm.
Cut from a single Sheet of white A2 Paper.
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
The US version of beloved VIOLENT PHENOMENA antho of essays on translation is out today! With a foreword from Bruna Dantas Lobato.
Congrats @jeremytiang.bsky.social Kavita Bhanot, and all fellow contributors.
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Edward Hopper
Massachusett word of the day:
unnont8waonk
*/ənãːtəwaːãːk/
"language"
the first part is the root for "speak", and -onk (*wãːk-) is a suffix that forms abstract nouns.
cf. Abenaki lôdwawôgan
Want to purchase a copy of Pooja Saxena's INDIA STREET LETTERING and support one of Bengaluru's coolest indie bookshops?
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Includes typography walking tour maps of Kolkata, Chennai, Delhi & Mumbai!
“These essays, deftly blending the political and the personal, offer fresh, galvanizing, and passionate perspectives on literary translation.”—Jhumpa Lahiri...
India’s cityscapes are a typography lover’s paradise. Take a short walk in any urban neighbourhood and you’ll find signboards in a riot of languages, styles, materials, and colours, spanning decades o...
