Staten Island Ferry arriving in Manhattan - by Richard Estes (b.1932) ( lemmy.world )
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For some unknown reason this painting somehow always hits me right in the feels.
Hand-carved and printed linocut on certain fundamental principles of quantum physics and the double slit experiment (vertical central part) all mixed with abstract elements. all forming a graphically coherent and SF-inspired whole
Sir Walter Allward's inspiration for the Vimy Memorial came to him in a dream, in which, he said, dead soldiers "rose in masses, filed silently by and entered the fight to aid the living. So vivid was this impression, that when I awoke it stayed with me for months. Without the dead we were helpless. So I have tried to show this...
The use of blue glaze on pottery is an imported technique, first developed by Mongol artisans who combined Chinese glazing technology with Persian decorative arts. This technique traveled east to India with early Turkic conquests in the 14th century. During its infancy, it was used to make tiles to decorate mosques, tombs and...