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Arman Pierre Fernandez, a Founder of New Realism, and His “La Fenice III”
How do you like this little fiddle, "La Fenice III " by the French-American artist Arman Pierre Fernandez? Arman was one of the founders of Nouveau Réalisme, the very artist who built a tower of 60 concreted cars not far from Le Perche. He often used ordinary household
Aristocracy · Art · Monarchies · Ethnography · Humour
Leopold I in ceremonial dress and a gigantic headdress of white plumes, crowned with a peacock: a sign of good news
Prince Gundaker of Liechtenstein with a sail of black feathers on his head: a bad omen
NB! · Art · Books · People
In the 1960s Tove Jansson illustrated the Finnish and Swedish editions of The Hobbit, and the result was some of the least canonical drawings ever made for Tolkien's universe
NB! · Faith · Art
Saint Mary of Egypt as a Recluse, Boetius Adams Bolswert, after Abraham Bloemaert, c. 1619
Art · Humour
We Have Van Gogh at Home
Van Gogh at home: “Lenin and Krupskaya”, Viktor Andreyevich Pozdnov, 1969
NB! · Art · Paris
Robert Doisneau's Eiffel Tower, 1965
NB! · Art · Ethnography
Richly embroidered leather mittens, the work of Russian craftsmen of the nineteenth century
Art · Books · Moscow
Mayakovsky’s poem “Good Attitude to Horses” about a horse that fell in the street
Hooves were beating. As though they sang: "Mush- room. Plun- der. Tomb. Rude." Drunk with the wind, shod with ice, the street was sliding. A horse on her croup crashed down, and at once one idler after another idler, who had come to flap their trousers about Kuznetsky,
Art · Madrid · Museums · Science
The Prado Museum Offers Free Access to Aracne, a Programme That Analyses Painting Canvases to Aid Scholarly Research
The programme took 10 years to develop: it automatically counts the threads of a canvas, which makes it possible to refine attribution and dating. With its help, a painting attributed to Francisco Rizi in a 2023 exhibition has been reattributed to Francisco Herrera the Younger. The programme can be used
NB! · Art · Observations
They say a still life is dead nature. But it feels otherwise
They say a still life is dead nature. But it feels otherwise
Art · Museums · Nature
Botticelli's "Primavera" depicts nine figures from classical mythology, following one another across a flowering meadow in an orange and laurel grove
Botticelli's "Primavera" depicts nine figures from classical mythology, following one another across a flowering meadow in an orange and laurel grove. This very masterpiece of the Renaissance has had 138 species of plants precisely identified in it. The composition of the painting remains a riddle, but