May
7
Boris Vian (by SashaLipton)
Knowledge is Bower
don't be dumber. be smarter.
May
2
Jan Van Eyck, Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife, 1434
Things to think about when studying:
- What elements of the painting suggest this is a marriage portrait?
- What tells you that the Dutch were trading with other countries during this time?
- Where is Van Dyck showing himself in this portrait?
May
1
Jacobin convent, Paris (demolished circa 1806)
Duchemin, from Antiquités nationales vol. 4, by Aubin Louis Millin, Paris, 1792.
(Source: archive.org)
Apr
14
“The corporate governance of Japan dates back to the 19th century, much of which was propelled by the formation of the Meiji Restoration in 1866 by the Japanese government, the same time when the world entered the Industrial Revolution. These formations were termed zaibatsu.[2] Prior to the war, Japan remained dominated by four major zaibatsus:Mitsubishi, Sumitomo, Yasuda and Mitsui. They focused on steel, banking, international trading and various other key sectors in the economy, all of which was controlled by a holding company. Apart from this, they remained in close connection to influential banks that provided funding to their various projects.[3]”
Keiretsu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Apr
13
Artist Robert Irwin, the 2009 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medalist in Architecture (by UniversityofVirginia)
Apr
12
A Look at Artist Robert Irwin | cathyclarke.com
“At this point,” he continues, “I began to recognize the difference between imagery and physicality, and furthermore that for me, the moment a painting took on any kind of image, the minute I could recognize it as having any relationship to nature, of any kind, to me the painting went flat. Now, I don’t know where I got that idea, but there it was. Imagery for me constituted representation, ‘re-presentation,’ a second order of reality, whereas I was after a first order of presence.”
Apr
10
“Born in Shanghai in the 1880s, but educated at England’s Rugby School, he counted amongst his friends such notables as Winston Churchill, Aleister Crowley, Robin Maugham, Tallulah Bankhead and Christopher Isherwood, who wrote of Hamilton’s remarkable personality and frequently shady dealings in his literary memoir Christopher and His Kind.”
Gerald Hamilton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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