In 1872 John Atkinson Grimshaw was commissioned by the House of Commons to paint three views of the Roundhay Estate (of which this is one) in consideration of the Leeds Corporation Improvement Bill that proposed to turn this former private estate into a public park.
Anna Zinkeisen's portrait is that of her daughter, Julia; the black eye the result falling out of a tree. Anna had a reputation as a fine painter; during WW2, she worked mornings as a nurse on a casualty ward and painted in a disused operating theatre in the afternoon.
'The Reader.' (1885) Ferdinand Hodler said of the elderly sitters he used in his work: 'None of them any longer expected anything of life... They were all characterised by a desperate submission to an inevitable and inconsolable destiny... that is why I painted them.'
Lucian Freud was in his early twenties when he drew 'The Sleeping Cat ' in 1944. Drawing dominated Freud’s work until around 1950 when he had an unfolding fascination for human subjects and resolved from then on to concentrate on painting.
'Cactus.' (1939) In Laura Knight's autobiography, she writes that during the first days of WW2 'to keep myself from going crackers, I painted the nearest thing to hand... the last rose of summer, anything... no matter what... so long as I didn't stop to think.'
'Nocturne in Grey and Gold.' (1872) Colour was central to Whistler’s paintings, as demonstrated in the title he chose for this work. The blacks and greys of night are contrasted with gold - the gaslights that illuminated the streets of Chelsea in London on the bank of the Thames
Edouard Manet
Moss Roses in a Vase, 1882
Oil on canvas
Companies like Netflix want to appear to be against the grain but they aren’t. They do theatrical “as needed”, physical media when they choose to. They have long been a part of the existing ecosystem at their leisure while also taking shots at it, which is cowardly.
title card for NIGHT MOVES featuring Gene Hackman entering his office, wearing a pale blue bomber jacket & collared shirt & a mustache
revisiting one of the best private eye movies ever made
Happy #GoodFriday to all #FilmNoir and Crime fans out there! There's only one film we'll be watching today... one of the great British Gangster films...
The Long Good Friday (1980). #BritNoir
A History of Violence is 20
Viggo Mortensen’s performance is sublimely complex & endlessly watchable.
This set of reactions, particularly the last one, beautifully show a man so deeply in denial about his former/true self that he is genuinely shocked at what he has just done.
'Window.' (1856) Anton Dieffenbach was twenty-five years old and still a student at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf when he made this work. It's an extraordinary painting; possibly it is his response to a momentary light effect.
Takanori Oguiss's views of the backstreets of Montmartre form the greatest part of his work . A follower of Maurice Utrillo, he trained in Tokyo and moved to Paris in 1927 to join his friend Tsuguharu Foujita. This work dates from around 1930.
The Finnish artist Akseli Gallen-Kallela never quite forgot his symbolist past - the zig-zag pattens in the water of his Lake Keitele,' (1919) lend a meditative, tranquil quality to his picture, cleverly holding our attention.
'The Courtyard.' (1905) Vilhelm Hammershøi’s interest in isolation is powerfully articulated in this work which shows the exterior of his house in Strandgade 30, the oldest part of Copenhagen. He painted in a room so deep that even in summer, it remained in subdued twilight.
The role of the press used to be to keep people informed. Today, it is to keep everyone nice and docile during this period of transition to a new form of governance.
La reproduction interdite (flipped), by René Magritte, 1937, 📸 by @dcodysweet
Verfassungsblog a ON MATTERS CONSTITUTIONAL YEAR 1 Under Authoritarianism What to Expect? 1. They will come to power with a campaign based on fear, scaremongering and distorting the truth. Nevertheless, their victory will be achieved through a democratic electoral process. But beware, as this will be their argument every time you question the legitimacy of their actions. They will claim a mandate from the People to change the system. Remember - gaining power through a democratic system does not give them permission to cross legal boundaries and undermine said democracy.
written nearly a decade ago by eastern Europeans acutely aware of the authoritarian’s playbook, this list of 15 things to expect in the first year of an authoritarian regime rings eerily true today in the United States
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verfassungsblog.de Verfassungsblog ON MATTERS CONSTITUTIONAL = Authoritarian Checklist • Win elections on fear & populist promises • Reclaim power for the People from the "elites" • Purge highest positions in key government institutions • Place cronies in positions of highest power regardless of their competence • Brush off any critical press as "fake", "corrupt", "acting against the People" • Bluntly lie to the People • Ban press from parliament/congress/White House or selectively limit their access • Limit press freedom & quietly take control of mainstream media
• Label opposition & protesters as "traitors", "elites trying to reclaim power" • Limit freedom of assembly • Fix highest court to be able to bypass Constitution "for the good of the people" • Limit minority & women's rights • Ruin the economy to fulfil your populist promises in the short term • Alienate international partners and allies, "making your country great again" • Quietly fix electoral law under the disguise of making it better • Start over, until there's nothing left... - With love, your Eastern European friends.
published 8 years ago today by Martin Mycielski in Denmark
Outside Satan (2011; Dumont)
And now we’re left with institutionalists to say hey, you can’t do that, as oligarchs rip out the old wires and replace them with ones they control, all while people are still concerned about their country but these assholes are literally trying to move beyond the nation state altogether.
floating away from the Milwaukee lakefront on a sub-zero day…
Midori Takeda - Through the Looking Glass
I needed this surreal stunner after a long morning taking care of my sick wife. She's sleeping now and I'm luxuriating in this dreamy masterpiece
You can snag 2 different extremely rare Swedish 70's albums over at zikzak.substack.com
One is a never before reissued kosmische masterpiece (imho) and the other is a lovely solo folky psych work from the drummer of Träd, Gräs och Stenar
Cinemark Boca Raton JUROR #2 showing
Fwiw JUROR #2 still showing at the Cinemark in Boca.
