Australian poster from WW2.
Image 30 of 31 from gallery of 2012 RIBA Award Winners Announced. Maggie’s South West Wales, Swansea by Kisho Kurokawa Architect & Associates with Garber & James © Thore Garbers
A bushwalker and his dog have stumbled into a mid-water stand-off with a huge kangaroo in WA's South West.
French artist Bernard Pras remakes famous paintings through the use of daily objects. Fantastic! Notes about Pras (from bio): Pras was born in 1952 in the south-west of France in a toy shop. After more than 20 years spent as a painter, and also a sculptor of recovered objects, Pras conceived in 1997, an astonishing...
The Illuminated Sketchbook of Stephan Scriber from 1494. This is a wellpreserved sketchbook by Stephan Scriber, a monk from South-West Germany - download pdf:
Architect: Robert W. Edis Designed for for J.R. Corbett esq with North, South, West Elevations & Section including ground plans & 1st floor plans published in The Building News, January 1st 1875.
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Details Artwork Artist Details Aboriginal Artist - Faye Nangala Hudson Community - Nyirripi Aboriginal Art Centre - Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corporation Catalogue number - 799/19 Materials - Acrylic on linen Size(cm) - H61 W122 D2 Postage variants - Artwork posted unstretched and rolled for safe shipping Orientation - Painted from all sides and OK to hang as wished. Artwork This Dreaming belongs to Warlukurlangu country to the south-west of Yuendumu, for which Jampijinpa/Jangala men and Nampijinpa/Nangala women have custodial responsibility. An old man ‘lungkarda’ (centralian blue-tongued lizard [Tiliqua multifasciata]), of the Jampijinpa skin group, lived on a hill with his two Jangala sons. The old man would feign blindness and send the two boys hunting in search of meat. While they were gone he would hunt and eat anything that he caught before they returned. One day the sons returned with a kangaroo that they had caught after much tracking. Unfortunately the kangaroo was sacred to the ‘lungkarda’, unbeknown to the boys. In his anger the old man decided to punish his sons and the next time they went out, he put his fire stick to the ground and sent a huge bush fire after them which chased them for many miles, at times propelling them through the air. Although the boys beat out the flames, ‘lungkarda's’ special magic kept the fire alive and it re-appeared out of his blue-tongued lizard hole. Exhausted the boys were finally overcome by the flames. In contemporary Warlpiri paintings traditional iconography is used to represent the Jukurrpa, particular sites and other elements. Usually sites that are depicted in paintings of this Jukurrpa include Warlukurlangu (a men's cave), Kirrkirrmanu (where the sacred kangaroo was killed), Wayililinypa (where the fire killed the two Jangala sons) and Marnimarnu (a water soakage) where the two Jangalas camped. Artist Theo (Faye) Nangala Hudson was born in 1989 in Alice Springs Hospital, the closest hospital to Nyirripi, a remote Aboriginal community located 440 km north-west of Alice Springs in the NT of Australia where her parents lived. She was born to Mika and Ursula Napangardi Hudson and has older twin brothers. Theo attended the local school until she was 14 years. When she left school she did odd jobs and later joined the Nyirripi Night Patrol, a service that provides safe transportation; diversion from contact with the criminal justice system; and intervention to prevent disorder in communities. Theo is married and has three children. Theo began painting with the Warlukurlangu Aboriginal Corporation, an Aboriginal owned and governed art centre located in Yuendumu in 2002, when she was 13 years of age. “I would watch my Grandmother paint and listen to her stories”. She began to paint in earnest with the art centre in 2006. Warlukurlangu makes regular visits to Nyirripi to drop off canvas, paint and brushes for the artists and to collect finished artwork. Theo paints her mother’s Jukurrpa (Dreamings) and her father’s Jukurrpa, such as Yuparli Jukurrpa (Bush Banana Dreaming) from her mother’s side and Pikilyi Jukuurpa (Vaughan Springs Dreaming) from her father’s side. These Dreamings have been passed down through the millennia. Theo uses an unrestricted palette and loves to create patterns that depict a modern interpretation of her traditional culture. When Theo is not painting and looking after her family she likes to go hunting for Yurrampi (honey ants) and Yuparli (bush banana).
Selected pages from the Spätgotisches Musterbuch des Stephan Schriber, a manuscript which appears to be some kind of sketchbook, belonging to a fifteenth-century monk working in South-West Germany, where ideas and layouts for illuminated manuscripts were tried out and skills developed.
The Black Brook (c.1908). John Singer Sargent (American, 1856-1925). Oil paint on canvas. Tate. The girl seated in the foreground of this painting is the artist's niece, Rose Marie Ormond, daughter of...
Painting, View of Florence from the South West, by Francesco Rosselli and workshop, c.1495
Judith kills Holofernes Quill drawing, coloured; Illustration cycle Typology; Miniature ; South West Germany(?) , Austria(?) 1330 ; 1340 ; Vienna ; Austria; Vienna; Austrian National Library; cod. s. n. 2612 ; fol. 32v In Speculum Humanae Salvationis ; Mitteleuropäische Schulen I, Kat. 123 Image found at the "Institut für Realienkunde des Mittelalters und der frühen Neuzeit" on their Digital IMage Server via their search engine: www.imareal.oeaw.ac.at/realonline/
Skellig Michael, which means Michael's rock in Irish language, also known as Great Skellig, is a steep rocky island in the Atlantic Ocea...
Once one of the great country houses of England, in the Victorian period Witley Court was famous for its opulence and extravagant parties. After a devastating fire in 1937, it became one of the country’s most spectacular ruins.
Pastel Artist Nina Squire tells the Jackson's Art Blog all about her life as an animal portraitist.
The 35,000-year-old carving shows a woman with enormous breasts and other sexual characteristics like an enlarged stomach and large thighs.
They are actually all puffins
Back in 1704, in Torryburn on the south west Fife coast, they had a problem disposing of toxic material - it was what you might call a toxic witch problem.
The search for a missing 450-year-old heart and its golden box led researchers to a small town in south-west Hungary.
From early English history, origins and language, a politically-oriented piece on the people, origins, language and what the kingdom has become that began with a few warbands from over the North Sea
Images from the Clavis Inferni or 'The Key of Hell', a late-18th-century book on black magic.
All good things end—architecture included. Yesterday, we showed you nine buildings lost to the sands of time. You—hundreds of you—responded with your own contributions to the list. Who knew there were so many mourned buildings?
The discovery of 1500-year-old ruins at Tintagel in south-west England made headlines around the world. What appear to the be the walls of a Dark Age palace have been found in the exact place, and dating to the very time, King Arthur is said to have been born.
North,East,West,South according to triangle directions :)
SHEPHERD’S PASS Series: “In [this] series I wanted to move into expressing more of a post-impressionist mode by deconstructing with lyricism, while not fracturing in hard edges; so as to work more organically and fluid both consciously and unconsciously. Each one is an illuminated memory of my plein air experience of the light and atmosphere, in addition to sharing that with my students the food, wine, and culture of Italy and France.” As an American artist, Wright’s travels have taken him to paint and/or teach throughout the United States and visiting over a dozen National Park sites in addition to Italy, France, Ireland, Austria, England, West Indies, Central and South America, and China. His work focuses on the Preservation and Progress of Impressionism. "I look to enhance natural beauty by bringing forth the transcendent and the invisible of what is occurring as if what is below the surface, for my brush is dancing upon the atoms of colors." This Painting will be shipped directly from the artist's studio.
