Category Archives: Art
Ernst Haeckel’s Sublime Drawings of Flora and Fauna: The Beautiful Scientific Drawings That Influenced Europe’s Art Nouveau Movement (1889)
“Haeckel published 100 fabulous prints beginning in 1889 in a series of ten books called Kunstformen der Natur (“Art Forms in Nature”)…”
https://www.openculture.com/2017/11/ernst-haeckels-sublime-drawings-of-flora-and-fauna.html
Why it took us thousands of years to see the colour violet
“Over the past 20 years, I visited 193 museums in 42 different countries. Equipped with 1,500 Munsell colour chips – the world-standard samples for colour science – I examined 139,892 works of art, searching for violet. I concluded that there were indeed only a very few artworks before the 1860s that contained this colour from my childhood….
…I can’t help but wonder whether a muon shower might have enhanced our ability to see violet midway through the 19th century on Earth.”
Allen Tager
https://psyche.co/amp/ideas/why-it-took-us-thousands-of-years-to-see-the-colour-violet
And more here…
https://brill.com/view/journals/jocc/18/3-4/article-p262_2.xml?language=en
Watch Classical Music Come to Life in Artfully Animated Scores
Changed by Art
Gazing at a painting feels like an almost magical encounter with another mind but what real effects does art have on us?
https://aeon.co/essays/works-of-art-compel-our-attention-but-can-they-change-us
Enter an Archive of 6,000 Historical Children’s Books, All Digitized and Free to Read Online
We can learn much about how a historical period viewed the abilities of its children by studying its children’s literature.
Enter an Archive of 6,000 Historical Children’s Books, All Digitized and Free to Read Online
Leonardo’s Brain: What a Posthumous “Brain Scan” Six Centuries Later Reveals about the Source of Da Vinci’s Creativity
Using a wealth of available information from Leonardo’s notebooks, various biographical resources, and some well-reasoned speculation, Shlain sets out to perform a “posthumous brain scan” seeking to illuminate the unique wiring of Da Vinci’s brain and how it explains his unparalleled creativity.
https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/11/17/leonardos-brain-leonard-shlain/
Inside the Arctic Circle, Golden Hour Has Nothing on Golden Day
When photographer Reuben Wu visited the Svalbard Satellite Station in Norway, the sun never strayed far from the horizon….
New Online Archive of Graphic Design
The Letterform Archive Launches a New Online Archive of Graphic Design, Featuring 9,000 Hi-Fi Images
This Random Sense of Wonder 