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Poem of the Day - Musee des Beaux Arts by W.H. Auden

Ryan Nance September 7, 2017
Musee des Beaux Arts

by W. H. Auden

About suffering they were never wrong,
The old Masters: how well they understood
Its human position: how it takes place
While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along;
How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting
For the miraculous birth, there always must be
Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating
On a pond at the edge of the wood:
They never forgot
That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course
Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot
Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer's horse
Scratches its innocent behind on a tree.

In Breughel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away
Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may
Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry,
But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone
As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green
Water, and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen
Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,

Had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.

Auden's articulateness resists the ineffable nearly successfully in this poem.

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Abandoned Buildings Adorned with Anamorphic Paintings

Ryan Nance October 1, 2013

French artist and photographer Fanette Guilloud transforms the walls and floors of abandoned buildings with anamorphic paintings, which can only be seen in their correct image when viewed from a specific vantage point.

See also A Room of Stuff Arranged to Create this Anamorphic Portrait »

 

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In 5tilt Tags anamorphic, abandoned buildings, french, painting
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Books as Canvas for Childhood Memories

Ryan Nance June 13, 2013

A press release on the work of Rome-based Russian artist Ekaterina Panikanova reads:

"[T]he proposition of the artist is based on the metaphor of the oyster and the pearl: the entrance of the sand represents a stress element for the shell and starts the expulsion and the production of the pearl. This metaphor indicates that since childhood, everyone holds a storage of images, traumas and experiences that they carry for all their lives."

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In 5tilt Tags art, books, painting
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Hyper Realistic Paintings of Toys

Ryan Nance April 18, 2013

Canadian Jason de Graaf creates these acrylic paintings that test your own eyes, so detailed, so attuned to the nuance of perception, light and perspective. They seem almost unbelievably photographic.

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In 5tilt Tags hyperrealism, painting, amazing
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2 - Art.sy - A Genome Project for the World of Art

Ryan Nance October 8, 2012

Much like Pandora uses an analytical approach to mapping your tastes to their music offering, the new Art focused site Art.sy aims to map your taste in art to its art offerings. ​

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"Art.sy’s goal is to expose as many people as possible to art. Currently, our growing collection comprises 17,000+ artworks by 3,000+ artists from leading galleries, museums, private collections, foundations, and artist estates. Art.sy works with 300+ of the world’s leading galleries, museums, private collections, foundations, and artist estates from New York to London, Paris to Shanghai, Johannesburg to São Paulo."
via The NY Times
In 5tilt Tags photos, sculpture, website, art, browser, resource, painting
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4 - Lush Game of Thrones Portraits

Ryan Nance October 3, 2012

These Game Of Thrones portraits are by Anina Mitura.

via Chrome Yellow

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5 - Disasterland from José Rodolfo Loaiza Ontiveros

Ryan Nance July 26, 2012

​Pop culture worlds tear at on another in José Rodolfo Loaiza's Disasterland show at La Luz de Jesus gallery in Los Angeles. 

The reimagining ​of Frida Kahlo's iconic painting is perhaps my favorite. But really quite an astounding range here. 

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The Two Fridas, 1939, Oil on canvas, 67" x 67", Collection of the Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City

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5 - Murals Created with Thousands of Buttons, Pins and Beads

Ryan Nance July 24, 2012

A stunning hybrid of painting and sculpture, these murals from Ran Hwang involve thousands and thousands of pins, beads and buttons.​

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In 5tilt Tags sculpture, art, painting, ran hwang

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