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clipper's remarks: Charles Sheeler (1883-1965) was a founder of American modernism and a master photographer of the 20thC.

Born in Philadelphia, he first studied at the Penn. Academy of Fine Arts. In 1909 he went to Paris, just when Cubism was becoming popular. Returning to the US, he realised that he would not make a living with Modernism, so he took up commercial photography, his focus on architectural subjects. He was a self-taught photographer, and learned on a $5 Brownie.

He shared a farmhouse in Doylestown, Penn., close to Philadelphia, with artist Morton Schamberg. He was so fond of the 19thC stove there that he called it his "companion" and made it a subject of his photographs (see last clip). The farmhouse serves a prominent role in many of his photographs.

He painted using a technique called Precisionist, a term that emphasised the linear precision he employed in his work. His subjects were generally things such as machinery and structures.

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Propaganda art

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 01:07:21 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "Propaganda is neutrally defined as a systematic form of purposeful persuasion that attempts to influence the emotions, attitudes, opinions, and actions of specified target audiences for ideological, political or commercial purposes through the controlled transmission of one-sided messages (which may or may not be factual) via mass and direct media channels. A propaganda organization employs propagandists who engage in propagandism—the applied creation and distribution of such forms of persuasion."

Richard Alan Nelson, A Chronology and Glossary of Propaganda in the United States, 1996

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1967 Chinese propaganda poster

"Smash the old world, establish a new world."

First Red Scare depiction of a monstrous "European Anarchist" attempting to destroy the Statue of Liberty.

Poster for Thirteenth Naval District, United States Navy, showing a rat representing Japan, approaching a mousetrap labeled "Army Navy Civilian,"

Ku Klux Klan sheet music to "We Are All Loyal Klansmen", 1923

Poster of the 19th century Scandinavist movement

The execution of British nurse Edith Cavell by the German Army in 1915 was a major theme of WWI anti-German propaganda

A 1947 comic book published by the Catechetical Guild Educational Society warning of "the dangers of a Communist takeover".

US Office for War Information, propaganda message: working less helps our enemies

The much-imitated 1914 "Lord Kitchener Wants You!"

symbolizes the British-American alliance in World War I.

"The Pope is Antichrist" - 1521 propaganda

The Finnish Maiden

Kaiser Wilhelm II biting the world

American WWI poster

1643

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Art from Asia

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:05:34 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Wonderful images from Arabic, Iranian, Indian and Pakistani artists

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Saliba Douaihy (Lebanon, 1912-1994) Landscape

Moustapha Farroukh (Lebanon, 1902-57) Street Scene

Sohrab Sepehri (Iran, 1928-1980) Kashan

Iran Darroudi (Iran, b. 1936) Eshgh Khamoush Shodeh

Abdur Rahman Chughtai (Pakistan, 1897-1975) Maiden contemplating moths at a flame

Nazem Al Jaafari (Syria, b. 1918) From Jabal Al-Arab

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Abdul Kadir al-Rassam (Iraq, 1882-1952) River scene on the banks of the Tigris

Tassuduque Sohail (Pakistan, b. 1930) A prince entertaining a large company in a pavilion

Hafiz Drubi (Iraq, 1914-1991) Watermelon Sellers

George Keyt (Sri Lanka, 1901-1993) Figures with Parrot

Dia Al Azzawi (Iraq, b. 1939) We Are Not Seen, But, Corpses (The Massacre of Sabra and Shatila Camps)

Koorosh Shishegaran (Iran, b. 1945) Untitled

Sadegh Tirafkan (Iran, b. 1965) Secret of Words, numbers 6 and 7

Abbas Kiarostami (Iran, b. 1940) Snow White Series

Shadi Ghadirian (Iran, b. 1974) Untitled: from the 'Qajar' series

Abbas Kiarostami (Iran, b. 1940) Untitled; from the series 'The Wind and the Rain'

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Haeckel's "Art Forms in Nature" (1899) on the web

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 06:06:33 GMT

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clipper's remarks: An incredible collection of illustrations of strange and beautiful shapes taken from nature: microscopic organisms, fungi, sea animals, etc. Hard to describe, but worth a look.

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	Ernst Haeckel: Kunstformen der Natur 1899-1904 HTML-Version herausgegeben von Kurt Stüber, 1999 Vollständige elektronische Faksimile-Ausgabe. Index aller 100 Tafeln Dieses Buch ist ein Teil von Kurt Stübers online-Library.

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Beautiful Cornwell

Sat, 09 Feb 2008 15:26:39 GMT

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'KINDRED OF THE DUST'

1920

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Imaginary Prisons: dark vision of Piranesi

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 07:41:58 GMT

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Piranesi created atmospheric and grandiose spaces in his most famous series of prints, Imaginary Prisons. These images have caught and held the fascination of artists, writers and musicians from the eighteenth century until the present day.

Dr Petra Kayser, Assistant Curator of Prints and Drawings at the NGV said: “Piranesi’s gothic, unconventional, and atmospheric works have long inspired famous artists including printmaker M.C. Escher, poet Edgar Allan Poe, and Fritz Lang’s film Metropolis.”

Piranesi’s first edition of prints titled Inzenzioni capric di carceri (Fanciful images of prisons), were published anonymously in 1749-50. The series is made up of 14 etchings that use the prison as a dramatic architectural setting. The prints explore darkness and light, and the opposing themes of spatial illusion and claustrophobia.

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Rhapsody of Iron

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 03:21:09 GMT

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Viktor Schreckengost

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 02:50:03 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Vicktor Schreckengost (1906-2008) died on January 26, 2008 at age 101.
Schreckengost taught industrial design at the Cleveland Institute of Art (CIA) for more than 50 years, and was a professor emeritus at CIA until his death. He was also the youngest faculty member ever at CIA (then known as the Cleveland School of the Arts). He founded CIA's school of industrial design, the first of its kind in the country. He also enlisted in the Navy at age 37 to help the Allies in World War II. He was flown on secret missions to Europe where he used his modeling knowledge to help improve the radar used in the Battle of the Bulge. Later he helped design prosthetics for wounded soldiers. He retired from the Naval Reserves as a Captain. Schreckengost was also good friends with Cleveland's famed safety director Eliot Ness.

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Born the son of a commercial potter in Sebring, Ohio, Viktor Schreckengost learned the craft of sculpting in clay from his father

Upon graduation in 1929, he studied ceramics in Vienna, Austria, where he began to build a reputation, not only for his art, but also as a jazz saxophonist

New Yorker, or The Jazz Bowl, about 1930

The original Jazz Bowl was made for Eleanor Roosevelt

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American Limoges Manhattan Shape Meerschaum Pattern (working model), 1935

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Jeddu, 1931

A clay head, based on a photograph taken by a friend in Africa

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Murray Mercury bicycle, first issued 1939

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Apocalypse '42, 1942

Death is represented by the figure in a German uniform

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1950. One of Viktor's slab form vessels

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Naama, 1939

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Mammoths and Mastodons, 1956

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Blue Revel, 1931

This painting was inspired by a visit to the Globe Theater

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New York Buildings, Blue Background, 1997

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Champion Child's Pedal Car, first issued 1938

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Sketch and advertisement of the cab-over-engine truck design for White Motors

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Prince Valiant by Hal Foster

Sun, 03 Feb 2008 23:57:29 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Prince Valiant is a role model of mine.

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Before Hal Foster started his illustration and comics career, he held several jobs in Nova Scotia, from newspaper boy, woodchuck and hunting guide, to a stint as a gold prospector. In 1921, he finally chose to explore the fine arts, and cycled 1,000 miles from Manitoba to Chicago to study at the Chicago Art Institute, and later, at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. Working as a successful illustrator, Foster was asked in 1928 to make 300 illustrations for the 'Tarzan' comics. Although Harold Foster hated the Tarzan character, he nevertheless agreed to do a Sunday page of 'Tarzan' when the 300 illustrations he made were enthusiastically approved.

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Rhapsody of Steel

Sun, 03 Feb 2008 23:26:26 GMT

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Today we scanned a read-along storybook adaptation of John Sutherland's industrial film, Rhapsody of Steel (1959). Sutherland's studio was very influential in the mid-1950s, employing some of the best designers in the business. This film is no exception. Legendary stylists Eyvind Earle (Sleeping Beauty, Pigs is Pigs) and Maurice Noble (Duck Dodgers, How The Grinch Stole Christmas) collaborated on Rhapsody of Steel, and you can see evidence of both their hands everywhere in these pages. (Earle in the landscapes and textures, Noble in the bold primary and secondary colors...)

You can find many John Sutherland fIlms at Archive.org, but unfortunately not this one. Does anyone have a copy of this film on video to contribute to the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive? If so, let me know. This book suffers from little tiny pictures and oceans of white space, so I've enlarged a bunch of the pictures so you can see them better.

The Art of Dean Cornwell

Sun, 03 Feb 2008 19:26:18 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Dean Cornwell (1892- 1960) was an American illustrator and muralist. His oil paintings were frequently featured in popular magazines and books as literary illustrations, advertisements, and posters promoting the war effort. Throughout the first half of the 20th century he was a dominant presence in American illustration. At the peak of his popularity he was nicknamed the "Dean of Illustrators".

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Paintings of Arthur Sisley

Sat, 02 Feb 2008 06:28:37 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Alfred Sisley (October 30, 1839 – January 29, 1899) was an English Impressionist landscape painter who lived and worked in France.

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Apart from a period spent in London in 1857-61—and brief trips to England in 1874, 1881, and 1897—Sisley lived his entire life in France.

Among the Impressionists Sisley has been overshadowed by Monet, whose work his most resembles, although Sisley was less experimental, and tended to work on a smaller scale.

His concentration on landscape subjects was the most consistent of any of the Impressionists.

Sisley died in Moret-sur-Loing at the age of 59, just a few months after the death of his wife.

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Lane near a Small Town. c. 1864

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Bridge at Villeneuve-la-Garenne. 1872

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Footbridge at Argenteuil. 1872

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Small Meadows in Spring. c. 1881

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From Miner to Artist: Jack Vettriano

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 21:11:53 GMT

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Born in Methil in the Levenmouth area of Fife in 1951, Jack Vettriano spent the early years working in the local coal mines. His talent in painting was self taught and he only became a full time painter at the age of 37. His success has been recognised by the award of an OBE and his financial rewards have been reflected in a large rise in painting prices, many now fetching tens of thousands of pounds. Perhaps one of his most memorable images has been the Singing Butler that was sold for a record breaking price for a Scottish Artist in 2004

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Guernica, Iraq and Showers of Bombs

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 08:01:12 GMT

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On April 27, 1937, in the midst of the Spanish Civil War (a prelude to World War II), planes of the German Condor Legion attacked the ancient Basque town of Guernica. They came in waves, first carpet bombing, then dropping thermite incendiaries. It was a market day and there may have been as many as 7,000-10,000 people, including refugees, in the town which was largely destroyed in the ensuing fire storm. More than 1,600 people may have died there (though some estimates are lower). The Germans reputedly dropped about 45,000 kilograms of explosives on the town. In the seven decades between those two 45,000 figures lies a sad history of our age.

the major bombing story of these past days - those 45,000 kilograms or so of explosives that US planes dropped in a small area south of Baghdad

The self-evident barbarism of the event - the first massively publicized bombing of a civilian population - caused international horror

Guernica's fate seems almost insignificant by comparison

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Art of Charles Sheeler

Propaganda art

Art from Asia

Haeckel's "Art Forms in Nature" (1899) on the web

Ernst Haeckel: Kunstformen der Natur 1899-1904

Index aller 100 Tafeln

Beautiful Cornwell

Imaginary Prisons: dark vision of Piranesi

Rhapsody of Iron

Viktor Schreckengost

Prince Valiant by Hal Foster

Rhapsody of Steel

The Art of Dean Cornwell

Paintings of Arthur Sisley

From Miner to Artist: Jack Vettriano

Guernica, Iraq and Showers of Bombs

Ernst Haeckel:
Kunstformen der Natur
1899-1904