Barretta

A manuscript: occasionally written, inconstantly illuminated, regretfully digital.

April 10th 2013

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William Blake, plate 100 of Jerusalem, the Emanation of the Giant Albion.

Posted at 8:30pm and tagged with: art poetry lit.

William Blake, plate 100 of Jerusalem, the Emanation of the Giant Albion.

April 9th 2013

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William Blake, Angel of the Revelation.

Posted at 8:30pm and tagged with: art.

William Blake, Angel of the Revelation.

March 29th 2013

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I’m not much of a food-picture guy—especially the sort of textless and contextless reblog fodder that bloats Tumblr dashboards every day—but I will bend that rule this once to say that it is sushi that taught me that food, taken seriously, is not at all one of the lesser forms of art.

Posted at 9:54pm and tagged with: food art I actually ate this and it is not an instagram.

I’m not much of a food-picture guy—especially the sort of textless and contextless reblog fodder that bloats Tumblr dashboards every day—but I will bend that rule this once to say that it is sushi that taught me that food, taken seriously, is not at all one of the lesser forms of art.

March 20th 2013

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Maria Sibylla Merian, A Surinam caiman fighting a South American false coral snake.

Posted at 8:30pm and tagged with: art.

Maria Sibylla Merian, A Surinam caiman fighting a South American false coral snake.

February 9th 2013

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Alfons Mucha, Autumn.

Posted at 8:30pm and tagged with: art.

Alfons Mucha, Autumn.

February 7th 2013

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Alfons Mucha, Beer of the Meuse.

Posted at 8:30pm and tagged with: art.

Alfons Mucha, Beer of the Meuse.

January 9th 2013

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Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Hatsuhana doing penance under the Tonosawa waterfall.

Posted at 11:29am and tagged with: art.

Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Hatsuhana doing penance under the Tonosawa waterfall.

December 4th 2012

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Piet Mondrian, Self-portrait. It’s my historical doppelganger, guys. No fear that I’m an immortal who has assumed many names over the ages, though; this is the only picture where we bear a real likeness, I think.

Posted at 7:53pm and tagged with: art also I can't draw a straight line.

Piet Mondrian, Self-portrait. It’s my historical doppelganger, guys. No fear that I’m an immortal who has assumed many names over the ages, though; this is the only picture where we bear a real likeness, I think.

December 2nd 2012

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Piet Mondrian, Woods near Oele.

Posted at 8:30pm and tagged with: art.

Piet Mondrian, Woods near Oele.

November 9th 2012

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Tamara de Lempicka, Adam and Eve.

Posted at 8:30pm and tagged with: art.

Tamara de Lempicka, Adam and Eve.

November 7th 2012

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René Magritte, L’ami de l’ordre.

Posted at 8:30pm and tagged with: art.

René Magritte, L’ami de l’ordre.

November 5th 2012

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René Magritte, Le beau monde.

Posted at 8:30pm and tagged with: art.

René Magritte, Le beau monde.

October 9th 2012

What Is This Thing That "Augments" Classic Works of Art

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The whole augmented reality bit has me torn between the joy of having torrents of information available constantly and the horror of placing yet another synthetic layer between man and his environment, when that interstitial space is already stuffed full of layer upon layer and meta-layer upon meta-layer.

I don’t think I’m alone in thinking, some days, that we should all just chuck our phones into the ocean and start actually touching objects instead of skimming their Wikipedia entries and then seeing them in a Star Wars mashup, you know?

Posted at 9:29am and tagged with: art culture science internet pick your poison.

July 21st 2012

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Illustration from Ralph Linton’s The Tree of Culture.

Posted at 8:15pm and tagged with: art culture.

Illustration from Ralph Linton’s The Tree of Culture.

July 9th 2012

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Valentin Serov, The Rape of Europa.

Posted at 10:09pm and tagged with: art.

Valentin Serov, The Rape of Europa.