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A flying Sea Dragon swooping down above the waves by Utagawa Kuniyoshi
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Artist @art_dailydose on IG
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by Hasui Kawase, early 20th c
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Shiro Kasamatsu
Dusk at Minakami
1958
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Jean Baptiste
It's been a challenging year on so many levels. I'm still putting my visual novel, Veil of the Gods, together and it's coming along very nicely.This piece is called "Morden Flin and the Glyph". Morden is a minor player in a renowned criminal gang, until he stumbles on a secret. It's a secret that someone with his limited understanding of consequences probably should have steered clear of.
I haven't really blogged much for a few months. I've had a few health challenges that demanded I just stick to my day to day work schedule. I'm back on deck now, though still have a little healing to finish.
Nabu Nin Azu. One of the most renowned Mahjeem to have ever worn the red of a master. This is a still from one of the oracle cards included in my upcoming digital deck. He's also a character from my visual novel, "Veil of the Gods".
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Peder Mørk Mønsted (Danish, 1859-1941)
Ponte Campovasto, 1914
Oil on canvas
50.5 x 84 cm
Private collection
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川瀬巴水 鎌倉八幡宮
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Tsuchiya Koitsu (Japanese, 1870 - 1949)
"Manazuru Harbor at Night", 1936.
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川瀬巴水 鎌倉八幡宮
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Moebius
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Hasui Kawase (Japan, 1883 - 1957)
Shinkawa Riverside, Handa, Bishu 1935
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LA FAUNE DE MARS - EXPANDED EDITION - MOEBIUS
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Fire Paintings Draws With Flames And Soot by Steven Spazuk
More info: spazuk.com | Youtube | Facebook
Steven Spazuk is a Canada-based artist who uses candle soot to create elegant drawings. After depositing soot on his media with a candle or torch, he etches lines and patterns in the soot with pencils and feathers.
Though Spazuk has spent the last 14 years developing and perfecting his soot painting technique, the creation process always has an element of random spontaneity and improvisation. source: boredpanda
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Rufin Gavrilovich Sudkovsky
(Ukrainian, 1850 - 1885)
"Cliff in the Moonlight", 1880.
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”Ceremonial Science Temple" (2022) by Mark Rogers via ImaginaryTemples
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‘Starwatcher’ by Jean Giraud (Moebius).
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My favorite place
Stefano Crea
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Salamandrine Man In The Wastes (Illustrator Wayne Douglas Barlowe)
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The Bodhisattva Maitreya, the Buddha of the future. Maitreya is believed to currently reside in Tushita Heaven and is typically depicted as having either a peaceful appearance (Bodhisattva) or Buddha appearance. Maitreya Budhha is depicted sitting on the throne in meditative posture, waiting for his time. He will reintroduce the True Dharma to the world. Maitreya is depicted in a posture symbolizing that he is ready to arise in response to the need of the world and descend to turn the wheel of Dharma, as Shakyamuni did before him. His hands are in teaching mudra at his heart.
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#mindfullness #compassion #dharma #teaching #buddhism #buddha #futurebuddha #bodhisattva #maitreya #bodhichitta #dhamma #meditation #sadhana #enlightenment #lamathankapaintingschool #thankapainting #thangka #himalayanart
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Still watching this youtube channel about what I can only describe as "Dark Classical art" and this one absolutely floored me because I was unaware of it and I want to share it because it changes my perspective on this artist completely.
You might be aware of Louis Wain. If not by name then by his art. He's the artist behind that series of cat drawings that slowly became more and more abstract and bizarre.
This series of paintings of cats are often labelled as a visual representation of Wain's deteriorating mental illness and schizophrenia. Even more so often labelled as "a tragic display of a painter's failing battle with schizophrenia."
The paintings look like this and were painted around the very early 1900s.
Ok got all that?
So here's the thing.
Although Wain did suffer from a mental illness that was strong enough for him to be institutionalized, his mental illness was never diagnosed with clear certainty. Although "Schizophrenia" is so heavily applied to him based purely on how his series of paintings LOOK, despite actual specialists widely disputing this. On top of this, although he did paint the kaleidoscope cat portraits during this time, it was not the only things he painted, and he was quite capable of painting "normal" pictures of cats.
The Kaleidoscope Cat portraits are more images of him experimenting with colour and shapes, something the Smithsonian themselves state on their website.
Wain had actually made his entire living painting whimsical images of cats, often for product adverts, before he was incarcerated and was actually a very beloved artist at the time. When his friends learned of his incarceration, they started a collection of donation money to help transfer Wain to the Bethlam Royal Hospital instead, one of the best mental health facilities of the time. Even the Prime Minster of the time donated, and they raised a large amount of money across England to help him.
4 years later, Wain drew this as his final image which he released publicly
I knew all about "the Schizophrenic cat Guy" but he had always been presented to me as some tragic case of an artist going mad and his skills and work unraveling as he went insane.
Which is why I wanted to share this information which was new to me. And because I think it's important.
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Night Snow at Kanbara from the Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō series, Utagawa Hiroshige, circa 1834
Woodblock print 8 ⅞ x 13 ⅞ in. (22.6 x 35.3 cm)