Knightshayes Court is a Victorian country house in Tiverton, Devon, designed by William Burges for the Heathcoat-Amory family. Nikolaus Pevsner decribes it as "an eloquent expression of High Victorian ideals in a country house of moderate size."
Are you a fan of street art? If so, make sure to visit the new North-East Victoria Silo Art Trail on your next trip north of Melbourne.
A town on high chalk slopes in the Chilterns, Wycombe has some of South England’s prettiest countryside in its back garden. The National Trust owns big tracts of this land ... Read more
A beuatiful structure of balcony of one havaly in Lahore City
C’est une tradition sur Instagram . Chaque jeudi, des millions d’utilisateurs postent des « #ThrowbackThursday », des photos vintage, avec comme nom raccourci « #TBT ». Les stars aussi se prêtent au jeu, certaines n’hésitant pas à sortir des dossiers du placard. La preuve.
A visual history of human sensemaking, from cave paintings to the world wide web.
While purists may disagree with the modernisation of such historic pictures such as the celebrations that marked VJ (Victory in Japan) day the colour pictures do appear to re-emphasise the scene they are portraying.
The illustrator Henry Raleigh started and ended life in poverty and despair. But in between, he spent decades painting high society pictures and living the opulent life of one of the best paid illustrators in the country. Born into a broken and destitute family, Raleigh began working at age 9 to support his mother and sisters. By the age of 12, he quit school altogether and found work on the docks of San Francisco, processing shipments of coffee beans from South America. Here, rough sailors and roustabouts filled his head with colorful and bawdy stories of life in far off places. At age 17, his knack for drawing landed him a job as a newspaper artist for the San Francisco Bulletin where he was assigned to some of the most seamy and gruesome aspects of the city, including executions, fires and fatal accidents. He later recalled learning a lot about human anatomy at the morgue sketching "promising looking corpses." Raleigh's work soon attracted the attention of art directors and publishers who offered him better assignments. He moved to New York where he gradually progressed from newspapers to top magazines such as Vanity Fair, Harper's Bazaar, Colliers and Saturday Evening Post. Surprisingly, his trademark became his pictures of glittering parties and fashionable society life. He was sought after by some of the greatest writers of his day, including F. Scott Fitzgerald, who wrote a fan letter saying, "Honestly, I think they're the best illustrations I've ever seen!" At his peak, Raleigh was able to make enough money from just three or four months of work to enable him to spend the balance of the year traveling abroad with family and friends. American Artist magazine later wrote: With distinction came affluence. In his best years his annual take was in the neighborhood of $100,000. Considering the then value of the dollar and the relatively insignificant tax on income, Raleigh probably had more cash in hand at the end of the year than any other illustrator before or since. But Raleigh also spent money freely. He gave away thousands of dollars to friends, traveled lavishly, maintained a yacht, owned a mansion and kept a large studio in downtown Manhattan. Unfortunately, styles changed (along with social values and taste in art) and his work dried up. Raleigh could not adapt; bankrupt and bitter, he committed suicide in 1944 by jumping out of the window of a sleazy hotel in Times Square. One of the things that I find most interesting about Raleigh's approach is the way he often surrounds a core of careful drawing with a flurry of loose scribbles, repetitive lines and stray marks. My initial reaction to his work was frustration with what seemed like a lot of superfluous, fluttery lines. But I learned more about his objectives when I read a 1923 interview: the most beautiful picture is one which the observer is left free to complete for himself. The illustrator should be able to select the essential elements in any subject which will convey to the layman the entire scene in the simplest and most direct way, avoiding mere details which tend to cause either monotony or confusion.And indeed, the focal point of Raleigh's illustration often consists of a few sensitive, well placed lines to define the "essential elements" (proving he can indeed draw), encircled by increasingly loose and broad marks that create a general tone but offer few competing details. Note how quickly Raleigh retreats from his careful handling of the central figures to the stray, wispy lines of the background couple (above) or the loose treatment of the balustrade (below). Similarly, in the following illustration... contrast Raleigh's careful treatment of the exchange between the two main characters: With the loose, flowing treatment of the rest of the picture: The majority of this picture seems to be made up of the chaos and scribbles you might expect from an abstract painter: Finally, in the following detail, contrast the delicate linework in the faces at the top of the picture with the broad, rough treatment of the balance of the image: I admire the fluid, seemingly effortless way that Raleigh was able to combine two very disparate ingredients in his art. If he had been able to accomplish the same thing with the disparate sides of his life, he might have had a chance at happiness.
All of the countries involved in World War 2 had some kind of rationing program that affected every citizen. We received the first set of the British series Foyle’s War (highly recommended) f…
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I've not abandoned Derbyshire :)
With an intriguing mix of gritty streets, quirky charm and melting pot of cultures, these are the best things to do in Liege, Belgium's buzzing eastern hub.
And **drumroll please** this may just be my favourite image I have ever posted. It is it SO IS. Higger Tor was listed as within the city limits of Sheffield, South Yorkshire; which I did not...
On one of Sir John Betjamins radio broadcasts he talked about arriving into Padstow and Valerian. The whole of the dunes around Rock and Padstow are awash with them and I wanted to capture these colours. When they sky and sand started taking on the same shades I knew something interesting should result. This is Sir John's End of the End.. "The next five and a half miles beside the broadening Camel to Padstow is the most beautiful train journey I know. See it on a fine evening at high tide with golden light on the low hills, the heron-hunted mud coves flooded over, the sudden thunder as we cross the bridge over Little Petherick creek, the glimpses of slate roofs and a deserted jetty among spindly Cornish elms, the wide and unexpected sight of open sea at the river mouth, the huge spread-out waste of water with brown ploughed fields coming down to little cliffs where no waves break but only salt tides ripple up and ebb away. Then the utter endness of the end of the line at Padstow - 260 miles of it from London. The smell of fish and seaweed, the crying of gulls, the warm, moist West Country air and the valerian growing wild on slate walls" Sir John Betjeman - Trains and Buttered Toast
The Soviet-Egyptian Friendship Monument at the western end of the Aswan Dam, commemorating the financial support Egypt received to build the dam in the 60s. This is a second view, with Graham at the base of the structure.
The cover of this publicity item leaves no doubt as to the message being sold - the clue is in the appearance of several kangeroos - cooking. For many years Australian prduce was heavily promoted in the UK - organisations such as the Empire Marketing Board pushed the colonial links that made 'foreign' foodstuffs such as soft fruit, butter and other ingredients effectively 'British'. This little cookery booklet was issued by the Australian High Commission in London in 1939 - sadly the supply of the ingredients mentioned would soon dry up for many a long year.
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"Begone, Hate!", is an original painting made by Félix d'Eon and is now available as a high-quality print. Each print is made with high-quality archival ink on premium presentation paper for inks and includes on the back the Official stamp of the Felix d'Eon studio in Mexico. The Felix d'Eon parchment scroll is our watermark and is used to protect our images and does not appear in print. Please keep in mind that the dimensions indicated are of the full sheet of paper, not the printed image itself! My artwork varies widely in scale and proportion, so each print will have a margin of white paper around the edge, which varies according to the image. SHIPPING All items are shipped by the Mexican Postal Service. SHIPPING FREE DHL EXPRESS PRINTS 24 X 35" AND 35 X 47 " Unfortunately, shipping from Mexico is rather slow; it can take up to a month to arrive from the moment we ship it. However, any order that totals 250 USD or more for Mexico, the USA, and Canada, or 400 USD or more for other countries; will be shipped DHL (at no extra cost) and will arrive in about seven days. We take great care packaging every item to ensure safe shipment to you. Once your order has been processed and we have received cleared payment, your item will be shipped as soon as possible, within 1 to 5 business days. This means orders under 250 USD will arrive within a month and a week. If you want an order to come faster, please check out my RedBubble.com shop www.redbubble.com/people/felixdeon. The prices there are higher, but they arrive within a week. Add me as a friend on Facebook & see all the latest https://www.facebook.com/felix.deon Instagram with all my most recent photos https://www.instagram.com/felixdeonart My Tumblr has lots of fun photos and artwork http://felixdeon.tumblr.com Follow me on Twitter https://twitter.com/FelixdEon
Kiftsgate Court - The Cotswolds
It's not often that I can say I have a history with the subject of a high-profile book, but such is the case with the soon-to-be-released...
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Hey everybody! Can you believe it’s the end of October already! I know I’ve said it like a million times, but this year feels like it is just flying by! I’ve been really busy finishing up Halloween crafts and planning … Continued
The East Village has the highest concentration of community gardens in the US, thanks to a grassroots activism that transformed abandoned lots into gardens.
Opportunity to camp near the river, close enough to listen to the water flowing during the night. During the day, Bright looks like paradise for landscape photographers.
As night falls softly across the country, take time to breath in and reflect that this land Always Was and Always Will Be Aboriginal Land.
Sisig is probably the most famous Kapampangan dish ever! Get this easy Sisig recipe from grilled pork belly! Crunchy and spicy just the way it should be.
Reading articles and clicking through a million galleries: Not for me. Seeing a bunch of information all on one graph: Perfect. Buzzfeed put together this graph of all the major colleges, and where they stand in the academics and party rankings. I'm proud to say WVU is at the top of one side, and not at the total bottom of the other! You can make it bigger by clicking on it if you're blind. I still think WVU should be even further to the right, but whateva. Hataz gon' hate. UVA #1 overall though when adding up the points?! GTFOH. They wear ties and dresses to football games. [Yeah, that's all I got on them, really.] I also find it interesting that the most popular squares are the best of both worlds and the worst of both worlds. Sorry boutchya Kent State people. Now let's get sports mixed in here too. Would that make it 3-D. They have 3-D printers now.... love, elizabethany PS: I should probably go back to school to learn about graphs. Tweet
Completed in 2009 in Yeoju-gun, South Korea. Images by Hiroyuki Hirai. This is a new clubhouse for a premier golf course located two hours from Seoul by car. It is composed as three buildings: the main clubhouse for...
Once built around 1750 somewhere in the lovely country of Belgium. Many people lived in this place and did some work to it the chapel was added around...
