The Magdalena Owlman by Nina McCabe, and Edward Gorey’s Doubtful Guest…
Tag: Art
Buildings and Food
More marvels of KC: We had hoped to go to a larger museum that features the work of the weird regionalist Thomas Hart Benton, but it was closed both days that we were there. A small modern art museum and the most unique museum I ever seen, based on a single sunken ship were, however, …
Art Market Criticism
Our neighbor Jean- Louis Lassez of Muleshoe ranch– see below or an many Christmas posts- seems to have embarked on anew career as a- satirical? ironic? painter. I STILL don’t get his Mondrian down there, but his Version of Munch’s Scream makes sense. First he sent this one, titled State of the Art (Market): After …
Artists and Time Passing
Tom Quinn RACED through with wife Jeri today en route from her aunt’s old house in Tularosa (no quail this year) over the subzero divide toward rainy Point Reyes. The snapshot though hardly great connects a lot of dots. (As always right or double click to see bigger). Upper left is a Vadim Gorbatov original …
“New” Petroglyph
… from none other than Andrey Kovalenko— see below. Andrey says: “This rock art is located in (تیمره) Golpaygan, Isfahan in the central part of Iran. GP Location is: 33° 38′ 31.43″ N 50° 19′ 27.30″ E. There have not been any scientific examination (Magnetic Polarity Chronology, Uranium Thorium, Carbon 14 HL) to date the …
Tavi File
Leap by Shiri, T- Kong by Jess…
Art, Science, Insect Hunting, and Nabokov
John Wilson’s butterfly photos remind me of one of the great neglected stories of 20th century intellectual life; that Vladimir Nabokov was not just a writer and teacher but a great taxonomist, this despite being denigrated as a dilettante in his time. Joseph Conrad is legitimately revered for becoming a great English novelist in his …
Fabre and Japan
This is not an analysis of the real importance, ignored these days except in Japan, of the pioneering ethologist of insects, the 19th century Provencal autodidact Jean Henri Fabre, who started life as a peasant kid herding sheep in the harsh hills of his home country, and later single- handedly invented the study of insect …
Pretty Guns- Post #2
I’ll leave this slightly obsessive subject in a minute but somebody asked me in an email “what ARE the best?” and what my– I dunno, esthetic is; my Platonic ideal. I could never afford one and I doubt if my fans can make up a rich enough cartel to comp me one as a present, …
Raptor Art & Vadim Gorbatov
Tunnicliffe’s unjustly neglected 1930’s image for Williamson’s The Peregrine’s Saga. I wonder if some illos by Gorbatov for the new REF Fidget volume are a homage. VG certainly is familiar with his predecessor’s works– see his Lobo illos. Many are witty elaborations on Seton… A “Lobo”. This batch was done BEFORE he came to NM! …