Category Archives: art
Protected: The Visual Story (II)
Protected: The Visual Story (I)
The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly
Hwang, Sŏn-mi, Chi-Young Kim, and Nomoco. The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly: A Novel. U.S.: Penguin Books, 2013. Print.
“Soon he’ll be so fat he won’t be able to fly. That’s how they get tame.” p. 103.
“Just because you’re the same kind doesn’t mean you’re all one happy family.” p. 106.
illustrator: Nomoco
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Mugwort via wikimedia
mannequin
Yeonsan. April 16, 2016.
Protected: Japanese Castles in Korea 1592-98 (part 2)
Persuasive Cartography
Persuasive Cartography | The PJ Mode Collection at Cornell University.
Credit: Cornell University – PJ Mode Collection of Persuasive Cartography
World in a Cloverleaf (1581) Bünting, Heinrich, 1545-1606
Credit: Cornell University – PJ Mode Collection of Persuasive Cartography
The Attack of Love (1730) Seutter, Matthaeus, 1678-1756
Credit: Cornell University – PJ Mode Collection of Persuasive Cartography
Portugal is Not A Small Country (1934) Galvão, Henrique, 1895-1970
Credit: Cornell University – PJ Mode Collection of Persuasive Cartography
B.C. 2348. The Deluge (1836) Hall, Sidney
Credit: PJ Mode Collection of Persuasive Cartography
Cross Section of Hell (1855) Caetani, Michelangelo
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Overview of the Divine Comedy (1855) Caetani, Michelangelo
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Genealogical Chronological & Geographical Chart [left] (1887) Skeen, Jacob
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Map of the China Seas (1898) Duncan, W. B.
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Chicago’s Gangland (1927) Thrasher, Frederic M.
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Protected: Matters of Light & Depth
Fukuoka New Year’s Day
New Year’s day. Students near Hakata station.
Had delicious croissants from Il Forno Mignon at Hakata station.
Komainu 狛犬 at Sumiyoshi shrine 住吉神社. 
Statue of an ancient sumo wrestler revisited.
Komainu.
A dog and his master waiting in line at the shrine.
An older couple arrived at the shrine with their respective matching pups. 
Canal City.
Kawabata shopping arcade. 
We were all wrestlers in Japan once.
ネコ. Ca ca catters mccatters ©. 
ACROS.
A little papillon near Watanabe dori.
Had the creeping sensation of being followed.
Found some yatai 屋台 at the edge of the city. I got excited about a yakuza-looking guy hanging out near the joint that had part of his little finger missing. She was more excited about the food.
Some of the best ramen noddles I’ve had under a plastic tarp.
Walked the ruins of Fukuoka castle in the dark.
Headed back to our Hakata base. 
Et in Arcadia Ego
Et in Arcadia Ego. Guercino. 1618-22. Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica, Rome. Via wikimedia.
A memento mori at 3:38.
Nicholas Poussin, Et in Arcadia Ego, 1627. via wikipedia.
Nicolas Poussin. Et in Arcadia ego (1637-1638). Via wikimedia.
Interpretation of the phrase and paintings:
“The most important difference between the two versions is that in the latter version, one of the two shepherds recognizes the shadow of his companion on the tomb and circumscribes the silhouette with his finger. According to an ancient tradition (see Pliny the Elder, nat. Hist. XXXV 5, 15), this is the moment in which the art of painting is first discovered. Thus, the shepherd’s shadow is the first image in art history. But the shadow on the tomb is also a symbol of death (in the first version symbolized by a skull on the top of the tomb). The meaning of this highly intricate composition seems to be that, from prehistory onward, the discovery of art has been the creative response of humankind to the shocking discovery of mortality. Thus, death’s claim to rule even Arcadia is challenged by art […] In the face of death, art’s duty—indeed, her raison d’être—is to recall absent loved ones, console anxieties, evoke and reconcile conflicting emotions, surmount isolation, and facilitate the expression of the unutterable.” * Wikipedia.
Philippe de Champaigne. Vanitas (c. 1671) Life, Death, and Time.
See memento mori and vanitas.
Raising Lazarus, Oil on Copper Plate, 1875, Carl Heinrich Bloch. Via wikimedia.
The Raising of Lazarus, 1857, Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat. Via wikimedia.
See Ecologues of Virgil.
See Erwin Panofsky
See Web Gallery of Art.
The mass hanging of San Patricios via wikimedia.
Read Samuel Chamberlain‘s My Confession: Recollections of a Rogue.
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Et In Arcadia Ego is the name the Judge has given to his rifle in Blood Meridian. In the book, the Judge copies and destroys an ancient rock painting he finds while crossing the desert.
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On the origin of painting and drawing through shadow. Blog.
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*the source of the interpretation doesn’t appear in Wikipedia unless it comes from the German book Picasso und die christliche Ikonographie. Mutterbeziehung und künstliches Selbstverständnis (2003) by . (Picasso and the Christian iconography. Mother relationship and artificial self-image).