Libby’s friend Happy Piasso is a Navajo silvermith who is not always traditional. The belt buckle design is based on a Japanese Goshawk portait in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (notice the red coral eye); the ring is built around a silver bat skull.
Tag: Art
Presents!!
I would hesitate to write about our Christmas presents but for the fact that virtually everything we got has intimate connections to the Blog’s interests– biology, guns, art, dogs- and I think a selection might amuse most readers… The background of the first is a present itself, from Jackson, and one I promise excerpts from …
Found– no, SENT- image
From Toby Jurovics, a Titian, early 1500’s: “Giorgio Cornaro with Falcon celebrates Giorgio Cornaro the Younger’s election into the Maggior Consiglio or the Great Council of Venice. “ I had never seen it, and wrote to Toby that I preferred it to the better- known Holbein of Sir Robert Cheseman with a Gyr. Henry 8’s …
Image
Leon Gaspard was a Taos painter of the early 20th century, with an eccentric style that makes him marginally less popular than some of his straightforwardly impressionist colleagues. He was a Russian who traveled in the the Soviet Union in the 20’s. Like his predecessor , the poet and novelist Lermontov (grandfather Scot “Learmont”), his …
St Giles Cathedral
Guy Boyd was in Edinborough, and captured not only the cathedral but its amazing animal carvings. Says Guy, “… When they’re visiting, I wonder if these folks contemplate their long tradition of partnership with the animals depicted here in contrast to current restrictive laws.”
“Washington and Moscow”
In 1983, artist and evolutionary biologist John Mcloughlin was so sure of feathered Dinos that, in his novel The Helix and the Sword, he gave the role of the pets and executioners of his post -Apocalyptic Asteroid Belt civilization’s cruel “Regent” to a pair of eagle- like, genetically re- created Deinonychids, with feathers like Golden …
Another day’s wait …
Before regular traffic begins. A productive day, but at 8:21 PM I am unlikely to blog much after a day spent working and answering correspondence at this desk. I should leave you all with an image or two to hold you from… what? Something surreal? Poignant? Beautiful? Art or artifice or nature? Aahh, I know. …
Working tools can be pretty too
More often than not, I like to publish pics of guns like pre- war English doubles; ones that, at their best, blur the line between art and craft. Only their theoretical utility keeps them to one side of that line, and ideally their utility increases as they approach it, like Daniel’s 1870’s Purdey. For my …
New sculpture coming…
Just a teaser from Sarah Madigan…
We Need More Feathered Dinos
John McLoughlin was writing about them in the late SEVENTIES. Isn’t it time yet to acknowlege, preferably before the next Jurassic Park, that dinos resemble eagles and turkeys and Roadrunners more than, oh, fence lizards? Especially with all the good artists around… These last would be so good if they weren’t lizard- naked! This guy …