Tag Archives: Art

2016: Cloud Study

Posted on July 22, 2021 by corvusfugit

Catherine Erb: Cloud Study 32 (Clouds over Water) (2016)

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2020: Ingathering

Posted on July 20, 2021 by corvusfugit

Joyce Brienza + Deborah Sukenic: Ingathering (2020); from an exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit.

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1848: The Devil’s Violin

Posted on July 4, 2021 by corvusfugit

Costume design by Paul Lormier for the 1849 ballet Le violon du diable (source).

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1953: Description

Posted on July 3, 2021 by corvusfugit

A description of what we would now call a depressive episode from a 1953 story by Jean Ferry, “The Traveler with Luggage”: As a result of incidents still obscure to me, I suffered an absolutely atrocious mental breakdown in the … Continue reading →

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1912: Butterflies

Posted on July 2, 2021 by corvusfugit

Odilon Redon: Evocation of Butterflies (ca. between 1910 and 1912)

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1909: Seascape

Posted on June 30, 2021 by corvusfugit

Léon Spilliaert: Seascape Seen from Mariakerke (1909)

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1778: Great Indian Fruit Bat

Posted on June 29, 2021 by corvusfugit

Indian flying foxes are found throughout India. Like others of their species, they are gregarious and tend to form large social groups. With a wingspan of four to five feet, Indian flying foxes are very conspicuous in their open roosts … Continue reading →

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2016: Big Storm Light

Posted on June 26, 2021 by corvusfugit

April Gornik: Big Storm Light (2016)

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1982: Press Operators

Posted on June 25, 2021 by corvusfugit

Russ Marshall: Press Operators, GM Fisher Body Trim Plant, Fort Street, Detroit, Michigan (1982, printed 1997)

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5650: The Last Day of Manhattan

Posted on June 24, 2021 by corvusfugit

In 1905, the great comic strip artist Windsor McCay illustrated a series of satiric science fiction vignettes by the prolific author, humorist, and editor John Kendrick Bangs. The series ran in The New York Herald and other newspapers and featured … Continue reading →

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