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2009: Familia Muerta

Posted on June 10, 2017 by corvusfugit

Adrián Villar Rojas: My family dead (2009) (source)

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1904: A Nightmare

Posted on June 10, 2017 by corvusfugit

In 1904…I was staying at the Hotel Scholastika, on the borders of the Aachensee, in Austria. I dreamed one night that I was walking down a sort of pathway between two fields, separated from these last by high iron railings, … Continue reading →

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2017: The Sky

Posted on June 9, 2017 by corvusfugit

Today’s addition to the gallery.

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1495: Relationship Issues

Posted on June 9, 2017 by corvusfugit

Piero di Cosimo: A Satyr Mourning over a Nymph [The Death of Procris] (c. 1495) (source) In one version of the myth of Procris, her husband Cephalus abandons her for eight years to test her fidelity, and then, when he … Continue reading →

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1692: Water Color

Posted on June 9, 2017 by corvusfugit

A page from A. Boogert’s Traité des couleurs servant à la peinture à l’eau [A Treatise on the Colors Used in Watercolor Painting] (1692). Found here.

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2010: I Find Your Lack of Faith Disturbing

Posted on June 7, 2017 by corvusfugit

View of Mimas, one of Saturn’s moons, taken by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft on Feb. 13, 2010. Herschel Crater—80 miles wide—is on the right. (source)

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1910: The Revolution Will Be Colorized

Posted on June 7, 2017 by corvusfugit

Klimbin (colorizer): Emiliano Zapata (source)

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1960’s: Music Lessons

Posted on June 6, 2017 by corvusfugit

Jiří Kolář: Globus s notovými osnovami (1960’s) (source) The literal translation seems to be something like “Globe with a curriculum of musical scores.” So maybe “Globe with Music Lessons”?

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1938: Einstein on the Bridge

Posted on June 6, 2017 by corvusfugit

Born in Lithuania,  Ben Shahn learned fresco painting as an assistant to Diego Rivera in the 1930s. As one of the artists commissioned for the New Deal Arts Project’s national mural program, Shahn created murals across the country that emphasized … Continue reading →

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2014: State of the Union

Posted on June 6, 2017 by corvusfugit

John Brosio: State of the Union 2 (2014) (source)

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