Tag Archives: Art

2018: The Sky

Posted on March 22, 2018 by corvusfugit

The Sky. Part of a series.

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1929: From a Paris Plane

Posted on March 22, 2018 by corvusfugit

Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson: From a Paris Plane (1929)

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1888: Lilies

Posted on March 18, 2018 by corvusfugit

Charles Courtney Curran: Lotus Lilies (1888)

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1902: Vines

Posted on March 13, 2018 by corvusfugit

Paul Ranson: Vines (c. 1902)

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2018: The Sky

Posted on March 11, 2018 by corvusfugit

Today’s sky. More here.

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1997: Translation / Transformation

Posted on March 11, 2018 by corvusfugit

In a 1997 essay on translation, the writer Harry Mathews cites Marcel Benabou’s version of Keats’s “A thing of beauty is a joy forever”: Ah, singe débotté, / Hisse un jouet fort et vert! It’s not quite a translation: the … Continue reading →

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1936: Gold Were His Limbs where He Was Bird

Posted on March 10, 2018 by corvusfugit

In 1921, the Istituto nazionale dantesco in Milan commissioned a lavish edition of the Divine Comedy to celebrate the 600th anniversary of Dante’s death; the edition was to include an original color plate for each of the 100 canti of … Continue reading →

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1899: Lake

Posted on March 7, 2018 by corvusfugit

Isaak Levitan: The Lake, Eventide (1899)

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1878: Pyramid

Posted on March 6, 2018 by corvusfugit

Ivan Aivazovsky: The Great Pyramid of Giza (1878)

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1990: Monte Carlo

Posted on March 6, 2018 by corvusfugit

Robert Bechtle: Working Proof 2 for Albany Monte Carlo (1990)

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