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two illustrations by Rafael Araujo applying 'golden section' maths to butterflies in flight and a seashell - the forms are surrounded and intersected by a complex gid of lines and curves based on architectural approaches to form

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the #mathematics & #architecture of natural beauty - an exploration of the Platonian ideal by #artist Rafael Araujo

#interview & #art showcase via Autumn Salon:
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Leonardo da Vinci's intricate drawing of a cataclysmic deluge swirling over broken buildings (c.1518)

'Leonardo da Vinci, the Way of Water'

"water fascinated Leonardo & it’s believed his first #drawing was of water"

@kimvertue.bsky.social explores how aesthetics & mechanics flow together in the work of the great Renaissance #artist who was Master of Water for Florence

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details from the three paintings of women done in different styles as described and discussed in article via link in post

'What the Impressionists Saw' - the #art of making the private public & the unremarkable remarkable

@kimvertue.bsky.social selects three #paintings of women to explore the interconnectivity & shared influences of the Impressionists

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YouTube video by 『超かぐや姫 ! 』公式 【Official MV】ray 超かぐや姫！Version / かぐや (cv.夏吉ゆうこ)、月見ヤチヨ (cv.早見沙織) from #超かぐや姫 ！

Kaguya & Tsukimi Yachiyo 🌼 'Ray' from 'Cosmic Princess Kaguya!' MV cleverly continues a few core story threads

🐙 read my #anime #movie #review @framerated.co.uk

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かぐや (夏吉ゆうこ) x 月見ヤチヨ (早見沙織)
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#アニメ #music #JPop

To See the World in Dürer’s Great Piece of Turf Celebrating the small, tangible things in our everyday world with Dürer and considering why we still connect with his vision.

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"Have you ever sat in the grass of a summer meadow, perhaps as a child, to make a daisy chain, or to examine a cricket singing? Only to be mesmerised by the many plants & flowers flourishing together at your feet?"

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#art #ArtHistory #botany #illustration

A Yuletide Writer Round-up Welcome to Your Winter Solstice Special Edition of Signified

Selected #art writing from the Signifier team: transgressive stained glass, mothers' love, still life, living life long, ghosts, #illustration, collage, #kawaii culture & Remy on Remy + more!

Our Winter #Solstice 2025 🎄 Newsletter has dispatched!

Are you Signified?

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photograph by Remy Dean of a section of a birch tree trunk with knot marks that look like four eyes looking out in different directions

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standing like a sentinel at the fringe of its thicket our 'Bardic Birch' keeps watch over the Vale (in the dawn or dusk half- light, those eyes seem to fix you with benign scrutiny)

#landscape #photography from #Eryri #Moelwyns #folklore

Three illustrations of Velvet Worms colourful Pop Art in style while remaining biologically accurate. "Solórzano's velvet worm, Mongeperipatus solorzanoi (the pink one) is one of the biggest velvet worms, growing to around 22 cm long. Other species are much smaller, about 5cm long on average, but some species are even smaller. Eoperipatus totoro (the brown one) was named after the 1988 Studio Ghibli film My Neighbor Totoro. The first specimen was caught in 2007. The team that found it wanted to name it after Totoro because the velvet worm's many-legged cuteness reminded them of the Catbus in the film. So far Eoperipatus totoro is the only velvet worm described from Vietnam. The species can grow to be up to 6cm long. The New Zealand Peripatus, Peripatoides novaezealandiae (blue one) gets its name from the word 'peripatetic' meaning 'wandering'. The Māori name for velvet worm has a similar meaning - ngaokeoke comes from the word 'ngaoki' meaning 'to crawl'. This particular species is about 10cm." more in article via link in post.

“Creatures”

#art by Zel Cariad was our December 2023
#exhibition in The Signifier : six : shot : gallery :

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#ContemporaryArt #animals #folklore #illustration #イラスト

photograph by Remy Dean of a rusted lever mechanism (partial) attached to a grey wall of slate blocks in bright daylight - the arrangement of metal parts resembles Supremacist compositions by the Russian artist Malevich

'A Relic for Kazimir Malevich'
(new work photograph ©2025)

#art #photography

landscape photograph by Remy Dean of a series of autumnal valleys leading to a snow-capped mountain range catching warm morning light under a partially blue sky

the Vale taking delivery of our 1st instalment of winter with a light dusting of snow on the #Moelwyns peaks & temperatures more like the average for mid-November

bright'n'fresh'n'bracing at 8:30 a.m ⛰️
#landscape #photography from #Eryri

Remy has written about Gustav Klimt's tree #paintngs

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...& the iconic poster favourite, 'The Kiss'

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#art #ArtHistory #history #illustration

three photographs by Remy Dean of stemmed and capped fungi growing from dead tree stumps in mainly coniferous woodland: a cluster with a golden pale orange colour; an old conifer stump festooned with pearlescent parasols; a rotting log sprouting grey-beige mushrooms with small but deep rounded caps and long thin stalks.

the #fungi fiesta in our local woods reaching its finale 🍄 with a variety of mushrooms recycling deadwood & bringing new life

‘Beauty with Fan and Morning Glories’ (Edo Period) by Katsushika Ōi - a print of a young lady wearing a dark kimono holding a fan sitting near a decorative bowl containing flowers - the blank area to the top left is detailed with sparse calligraphy

"unusual for a woman to make it as an artist at that time but her own father said that she painted beauties more skilfully than himself ... he was Katsushika Hokusai"

'Hokusai’s Daughter' by @kimvertue.bsky.social

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#Japan #art #ArtHistory #history #illustration #イラスト

‘Water-Lilies’ (c.1916+) - a large painting by Claude Monet: "...a colourfield of subtlety. The mauve and gold, punctuated by red blossom and a deeper blue in one corner, allowed the eye to roam and the mind to immerse itself completely in contemplation of shimmering hues that only hinted at water-lilies and trails of weeping willow..."

Claude Monet #BOTD 1840

Once reviled, now revered, his famous #paintings of Water Lilies reflect on the tragedy of war, express a hope for peace, & celebrate the joy of creation 🖌️

@kimvertue.bsky.social looks beyond the surface of Monet’s Final Masterworks of #art

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promotional image via BBC of a human face looking across at the humanoid face of a 'Sea Devil' for the new two-part Whoniverse adventure

glad to see 'The War Between Land & Sea' miniseries has been rescheduled back to this year - starts 7 December, BBC1 - not quite the Christmas Special we're used to but something to help fill the #DoctorWho gap... still not sure about the new 'Sea Devils'

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photograph of two of the lamps - "...spherical dome of the shade balances with the circular base. The ball of its pull-switch, suspended mid-way between the two, is a design ‘comment’ on the visual transition from one to the other..." more analysis and description in article via link in post

Illumined Thinking — Bright Ideas from the Bauhaus

@remydean.bsky.social remembers the first product from the Bauhaus as a sort of introduction, in itself, to what the influential design school were all about...

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#art #design #history #ArtHistory

four film stills: Sonny Chiba with one eye covered by a patch and looking horrified by the aftermath of battle; innosuke Nakamura as Yagyū Munenori in a lamp lit interior having just returned his katana to its sheath; Hiroki Matsukata as Tokugawa Iemitsu looks away from the candlelit shrine he is considering; Tetsurô Tanba as Ogasawara Gensinsai, a fencing master wearing a large domwed straw hat, stands ready with katana raised...

#RemyReviews

'Shogun’s Samurai' aka 'The Yagyū Clan Conspiracy' (1978)

Kinji Fukasaku's impossibly intricate & enthralling 'Shadow History' saga of devious samurai powerplay

my #movie #review of the newly restored #Bluray

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#Japan #cinema #history

David Bowie as Thomas Jerome Newton wearing a fedora and looking pensive in the closing scenes of the film 'The Man Who Fell to Earth' (1976)

Are Ziggy Stardust & Thomas Jerome Newton the same person? Such parallels landed David Bowie a starring role in 'The Man Who Fell to Earth' (1976)

@remydean.bsky.social discusses how two iconic personae fused multimedia fictions in a Pop Art cycle of creative feedback

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‘Tis the season for #DarkMatter 🎃

Today’s #PhotoOfTheWeek highlights Halloween Jack-o'-lanterns in the ATLAS Control Room.

One pumpkin features a schematic of the @atlasexperiment.bsky.social, and the other a dark-matter candidate event display.

abstract painting by Howard Hodgkin called 'Night and Day' (1997-1999) is a frame in vivid green and yellow around a swathe of deep blue across orange...

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A Small Thing But My Own

@kimvertue.bsky.social looks back on the technicolour emotions of Howard Hodgkin & how daubs of vivid colour & elusive forms represent intangible feelings about solid reality

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#art #painting #ArtHistory #illustration #GraphicDesign

the woodblock print 'Fireworks at Ryōgoku Bridge' (c.1858) from Utagawa Hiroshige's 'One Hundred Famous Views of Edo' in which a silhouetted crown watch falling fireworks by lantern light, reflected n an expanse of water

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remember. remember...

'Fireworks at Ryōgoku Bridge' (c.1858) from Utagawa Hiroshige's 'One Hundred Famous Views of Edo'

learn about the artist's 'Road to Fame' in our article by @kimvertue.bsky.social

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#art #ArtHistory #illustration #イラスト #fireworks

photograph by Remy Dean of a cluster of 'oyster' mushroom forms growing from a mossy log

photograph by Remy Dean of a 'cep' type mushroom growing on a woodland floor among autumn leaves, twigs and moss

...it's a #fungi fiesta in our local woods🍄

a couple more 'architectural' mushrooms

four film stills: a man with white hair and white eyes shackled to a wall; a white-gloved priest gestures toward camera with other priest behind him in a crypt; a monk studies a skeleton with a magnifying glass; a young woman enters a candlelit ossuary.

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& another classic go-to #horror #movie for #Halloween🏰

'Catacombs' (1988) "promises everything one expects from #classic #Italian horror in the style of Bava, Fulci & Argento..."

my #movie #review @framerated.co.uk 🕸️ medium.com/framerated/c...

cool group photo & I urge any of my pals 'down under' to catch the tour if it comes to a venue near you 🎶

Just scraped in with my last few ratings before Halloween deadline & as usual, some great short films this year🎬 I look forward to seeing if the judging panel agree with my recommendations again 👻 Notifications go out 30th November so, best of luck to all who submitted their Twisted mini-movies 🙀

two illustrations by Beatrix Potter: ‘Toad’s Tea Party’ (c.1905) - six toads gather around a small table, five sit on toadstools, and ‘Mycology Study’ - and accurate natural history illustration of fungi

it's #fungi season in the Eurozone so time to revisit:
'Beatrix Potter’s Field Studies' 🐸

@kimvertue.bsky.social on the #art & #science of a pioneering mycologist better known as the beloved children’s #author & #illustrator

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#illustration #fungi #history #ArtHistory

detail of the splash from the painting 'A Bigger Splash' (1967) by David Hockney

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'David Hockney: Making a Splash with the Bigger Picture'

@kimvertue.bsky.social dives into the large-scale, immersive #art of the people’s painter who continues to please with new work more than six decades later…

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#painitng #ArtHistory #history #photography

four film stills: head and shoulders portrait of Tomoko Hoshi as Japanese schoolgirl Sana Takaya; another schoolgirl falling from a school roof; Hayato Komori at the microphone during his radio show; Alan Shirahama and Makita Sports as Tsugutoshi Gonda looking horrified by something we can't see.

'Sana' (2023) is part 1 of Takashi Shimizu's enjoyable #JHorror #GhostStory duology "a slow build to some expertly delivered jump scares & a few very creepy moments" - now streaming @arrowvideo.bsky.social player

read my #horror #movie #review @framerated.co.uk
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"...purse lid decorated with elaborate motifs, including interlaced animals and wolves on either side of a human figure, also adorned with gold and garnet inlays. The use of Millefiori glass also indicates technical sophistication. These beads are produced by placing glass rods of different colours together and cutting across them to reveal a chequered effect" - more description and analysis in article via link in post

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'Sutton Hoo, a Great Warrior’s Treasure'

@kimvertue.bsky.social uncovers mystique and myth surrounding Britain's most significant Anglo-Saxon ship burial and its surprisingly sophisticated artefacts

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#art #design #ArtHistory #history