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Peter Winslow Milton (born 1930) is a colorblind American artist who was diagnosed with deuteranopia after hearing a comment about the pink in his landscapes.
A creator of black and white etchings and engravings that often display an extraordinary degree of photo-realistic detail placed in the service of a truly visionary aesthetic, his themes include architecture, history, myth, and memory, their intersections and hidden juxtapositions. His pieces often compress long periods of time into a single moment, as in "Family Reunion" and "The Train from Munich."
Peter Milton received his MFA from Yale University in 1961. His work has been exhibited in most major museums in the U.S. and Europe, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the British Museum and the Tate Gallery, London, and the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. Two major book collections of his work have been published: The Primacy of Touch: The Drawings of Peter Milton (New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1993) and Peter Milton: Complete Prints 1960-1996 (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1996).
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Music: Alio Die "Brace Di Trasformazione"
Peter Winslow Milton (born 1930) is a colorblind American artist who was diagnosed with deuteranopia after hearing a comment about the pink in his landscapes.
A creator of black and white etchings and engravings that often display an extraordinary degree of photo-realistic detail placed in the service of a truly visionary aesthetic, his themes include architecture, history, myth, and memory, their intersections and hidden juxtapositions. His pieces often compress long periods of time into a single moment, as in "Family Reunion" and "The Train from Munich."
Peter Milton received his MFA from Yale University in 1961. His work has been exhibited in most major museums in the U.S. and Europe, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the British Museum and the Tate Gallery, London, and the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. Two major book collections of his work have been published: The Primacy of Touch: The Drawings of Peter Milton (New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1993) and Peter Milton: Complete Prints 1960-1996 (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1996).
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Music: Alio Die "Brace Di Trasformazione"
![Nadezda
Nadezda is a Russian-born artist based in the Bay Area of California. She has contributed to creative projects across various genres – theatre, film, illustration and fine art. Influenced by an extensive background in theatrical performance, costume and character design, her artwork focuses on figure-based narrative, portraying the human emotion as an intimate window into the inner world of peculiar characters and creatures.
[from: https://www.twistedmatter.com/about]
Music: Steve Roach The Other Side Nadezda](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/6EcIxPCKgBY/mqdefault.jpg)
![René Magritte (Part 2)
René François Ghislain Magritte (21 November 1898 15 August 1967) was a Belgian surrealist artist. He became well known for a number of witty and thought-provoking images. His intended goal for his work was to challenge the observers preconditioned perceptions of reality and force the viewer to become hypersensitive to their surroundings.
Magritte was born in Lessines, in the province of Hainaut, in 1898, the eldest son of Léopold Magritte, who was a tailor and textile merchant,and Régina (neé Bertinchamps), a milliner until her marriage. Little is known about Magrittes early life. He began lessons in drawing in 1910. On 12 March 1912, his mother committed suicide by drowning herself in the River Sambre. This was not her first attempt; she had made many over a number of years, driving her husband Léopold to lock her into her bedroom. One day she escaped, and was missing for days. She was later discovered a mile or so down the river, dead. According to a legend, 13 year old Magritte was present when her body was retrieved from the water, but recent research has discredited this story, which may have originated with the family nurse.The image of his mother floating, her dress obscuring her face, may have influenced a 19271928 series of paintings of people with cloth obscuring their faces, including Les Amants, but Magritte disliked this explanation.
Magrittes earlist paintings, which date from about 1915, were Impressionistic in style.From 1916 to 1918 he studied at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, but found the instruction uninspiring. The paintings he produced during the years 19181924 were influenced by Futurism and by the offshoot of Cubism practiced by Metzinger.Most of his works of this period are female nudes.
In 1922 Magritte married Georgette Berger, whom he had met as a child in 1913.Before they were married, Magritte went overseas to serve in the Belgian infantry in Leopoldsberg, Austria, and Antwerp, Belgium from 1921 to the first half of 1922. He worked as a draughtsman in a wallpaper factory, and was a poster and advertisement designer until 1926, when a contract with Galerie la Centaure in Brussels made it possible for him to paint full-time. In 1926, Magritte produced his first surreal painting, The Lost Jockey (Le jockey perdu), and held his first exhibition in Brussels in 1927. Critics heaped abuse on the exhibition. Depressed by the failure, he moved to Paris where he became friends with André Breton, and became involved in the surrealist group.
Galerie la Centaure closed at the end of 1929, ending Magrittes contract income. Having made little impact in Paris, Magritte returned to Brussels in 1930 and resumed working in advertising.He and his brother, Paul, formed an agency which earned him a living wage.
His work was exhibited in the United States in New York in 1936 and again in that city in two retrospective exhibitions, one at the Museum of Modern Art in 1965, and the other at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1992.
Magritte died of pancreatic cancer on 15 August 1967 in his own bed, and was interred in Schaarbeek Cemetery, Brussels.
The Magritte Museum opened to the public on 30 May, 2009 in Brussels. Housed in the neo-classical Hotel Altenloh, on the Place Royale, it houses some 250 original Magritte works.
Magrittes work frequently displays a juxtaposition of ordinary objects in an unusual context, giving new meanings to familiar things. The representational use of objects as other than what they seem is typified in his painting, The Treachery of Images (La trahison des images), which shows a pipe that looks as though it is a model for a tobacco store advertisement. Magritte painted below the pipe This is not a pipe (Ceci nest pas une pipe), which seems a contradiction, but is actually true: the painting is not a pipe, it is an image of a pipe. It does not satisfy emotionally—when Magritte once was asked about this image, he replied that of course it was not a pipe, just try to fill it with tobacco.
Magritte used the same approach in a painting of an apple: he painted the fruit realistically and then used an internal caption or framing device to deny that the item was an apple. In these Ceci nest pas works, Magritte points out that no matter how closely, through realism-art, we come to depicting an item accurately, we never do catch the item itself.
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Music: Nebula Floating Galaxies René Magritte (Part 2)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/6LP2xV5Vya0/mqdefault.jpg)
![Lukáš Kándls Animaux
Lukáš Kándl (Born in 1944 in Prague, Czech Republic) is a well-known artist in magic realism. He started his pursuit in oil painting at the Prague College of Art from 1959 to 1963. He continued his graduate study at the Prague Academy of Applied Art (1963 to 1969). In 1969, Lukáš received his Masters from the Academy of Fine Arts. He then continued refining his skills following world-renowned oil painting artists in France and Holland. Currently, his studio is located in Saint-Germain en Laye (France) where he resides with his family.
Since 2002 he leads the ‘Visioniric-strange Comparaisons’ group in Paris. He created and leads the international Libellule group. His works are in numerous private and public collections in Austria, Australia, Belgium, Czech Republic, Germany, France, Hong-Kong, Italy, Japan, Marocco, The Netherlands, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, United States.
[from: https://www.imaginaryrealism.com/artist/lukas-kandl/]
“My painting is somewhere between surrealism and fantastic, a mix of strange and magic. I like to think that, in an other life, I was leaving in Prague, as someone in charge of Rudolf II’s fabulous collection in which you could find, for example, astrological tools, potions to make gold, the philosophal stone, impenetrable manuscripts full of VITRIOL formula. There were also strange beasts that I especially love”.
[from:https://www.libelluleart.com/luk k-ndl]
Music: Alio Die & Antonio Testa Dreamed Up, Alio Die In The Land Of Nod Lukáš Kándls Animaux](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/6bQJJ8VLexM/mqdefault.jpg)
![Kotaro Chiba
Kotaro Chiba is an illustrator living and working in Niigata, Japan. His otherworldly line art illustrations straddle a fine line between the darkened depths of our subconscious and a human need for interaction and belonging.
[from:https://www.daylightcurfew.com/collections/kotaro-chiba]
Music: Bzaurie The Church Kotaro Chiba](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/6es0MBSZQhU/mqdefault.jpg)
![Codex Seraphinianus
The Codex Seraphinianus, originally published in 1981, is an illustrated encyclopedia of an imaginary world, created by Italian artist, architect and industrial designer Luigi Serafini between 1976 and 1978. It is approximately 360 pages (depending on edition) and written in an imaginary language.
Originally published in Italy, it has been released in several countries.
The Codex is an encyclopedia in manuscript with copious hand-drawn, colored-pencil illustrations of bizarre and fantastical flora, fauna, anatomies, fashions, and foods. It has been compared to the still undeciphered Voynich manuscript, the story Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius by Jorge Luis Borges, and the artwork of M. C. Escher and Hieronymus Bosch.
The illustrations are often surreal parodies of things in the real world, such as a bleeding fruit, a plant that grows into roughly the shape of a chair and is subsequently made into one, and a copulating couple who metamorphose into an alligator. Others depict odd, apparently senseless machines, often with delicate appearances and bound by tiny filaments. Some illustrations are recognizable as maps or human faces, while others (especially in the physics chapter) are mostly or totally abstract. Nearly all of the illustrations are brightly coloured and highly detailed.
The false writing system appears modeled on Western writing systems, with left-to-right writing in rows and an alphabet with uppercase and lowercase letters, some of which double as numerals. Some letters appear only at the beginning or end of words, similar to Semitic writing systems. The curvilinear letters are rope- or thread-like, with loops and even knots, and are somewhat reminiscent of Sinhala script.
In a talk at the Oxford University Society of Bibliophiles on 11 May 2009, Serafini stated that there is no meaning behind the Codexs script, which is asemic; that his experience in writing it was similar to automatic writing; and that what he wanted his alphabet to convey was the sensation children feel with books they cannot yet understand, although they see that the writing makes sense for adults. However, the books page-numbering system was decoded by Allan C. Wechsler and Bulgarian linguist Ivan Derzhanski, and is a variation of base 21.
The book is in eleven chapters, in two sections. The first section appears to describe the natural world of flora, fauna and physics. The second deals with various aspects of human life, including garments, history, cuisine and architecture. Each chapter seems to address a general encyclopedic topic, as follows:
1. Types of flora: strange flowers, trees that uproot themselves and migrate, etc.
2. Fauna (animals), including surreal variations of the horse, hippopotamus, rhinoceros and birds
3. An apparently separate kingdom of odd bipedal creatures
4. Physics and chemistry (generally considered the most abstract, enigmatic chapter)
5. Bizarre machines and vehicles
6. The humanities: biology, sexuality, aboriginal peoples, including some examples with plant life and tools (e.g. pens, wrenches) grafted onto the human body
7. History: people (some only vaguely human) of unknown significance, with their times of birth and death; scenes of historical and possibly religious significance; burial and funereal customs
8. The Codexs writing system (which is to say, the – or probably, a – writing system of the world (if a world it is) from which the codex originates, or which it documents), including punctuation marks, the text being written, and experiments performed upon the text
9. Food, dining practices, garments
10. Bizarre games, including cards, board games and athletic sports
11. Architecture
After the last chapter is a table of contents or index, followed by an apparent afterword whose writing is more casually rendered.
Two plates in the sixth chapter contain lines of French text, a quote from Marcel Prousts À la recherche du temps perdu: Albertine disparue (In Search of Lost Time: Albertine Gone). The words scattered on the floor of the illustration are from the same book.
Baird Searles, in Asimovs Science Fiction (April 1984), says the book lies in the uneasy boundary between surrealism and fantasy, given an odd literary status by its masquerade as a book of fact.
Douglas Hofstadter, in Metamagical Themas, finds many of the illustrations grotesque and disturbing and others extremely beautiful and visionary. He says the book seems [to some people] to glorify entropy, chaos, and incomprehensibility.
American journalist Jim Dwyer finds that the work is an early critique of the Information Age.
[from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Seraphinianus#]
Music: William Basinski El Camino Real Codex Seraphinianus](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/7FmYR5dwbq0/mqdefault.jpg)
![Instant Light (Andrei Tarkovskys Polaroids)
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https://gwarlingo.com/2013/the-polaroids-of-andrei-tarkovsky-the-mystery-of-everyday-life/
Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky (Russian: Андрей Арсеньевич Тарковский, IPA: [ɐnˈdrʲej ɐrˈsʲenʲjɪvʲɪtɕ tɐrˈkofskʲɪj]; 4 April 1932 – 29 December 1986) was a Russian filmmaker, writer, and film theorist. He is widely considered one of the greatest and most influential directors in the history of Russian and world cinema. His films explored spiritual and metaphysical themes, and are noted for their slow pacing and long takes, dreamlike visual imagery, and preoccupation with nature and memory.
Tarkovsky studied film at Moscows State Institute of Cinematography under filmmaker Mikhail Romm, and subsequently directed his first five feature films in the Soviet Union: Ivans Childhood (1962), Andrei Rublev (1966), Solaris (1972), Mirror (1975), and Stalker (1979). After years of creative conflict with state film authorities, Tarkovsky left the country in 1979 and made his final two films abroad; Nostalghia (1983) and The Sacrifice (1986) were produced in Italy and Sweden respectively. In 1986, he also published a book about cinema and art entitled Sculpting in Time. He died of cancer later that year.
Tarkovsky was the recipient of several awards at the Cannes Film Festival throughout his career (including the FIPRESCI prize, the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, and the Grand Prix Spécial du Jury) and winner of the Golden Lion award at the Venice Film Festival for his debut film Ivans Childhood. In 1990, he was posthumously awarded the Soviet Unions prestigious Lenin Prize. Three of his films—Andrei Rublev, Mirror, and Stalker—featured in Sight & Sounds 2012 poll of the 50 greatest films of all time.
In a 1962 interview, Tarkovsky argued: All art, of course, is intellectual, but for me, all the arts, and cinema even more so, must above all be emotional and act upon the heart. His films are characterized by metaphysical themes, extremely long takes, and images often considered by critics to be of exceptional beauty. Recurring motifs are dreams, memory, childhood, running water accompanied by fire, rain indoors, reflections, levitation, and characters re-appearing in the foreground of long panning movements of the camera. He once said: Juxtaposing a person with an environment that is boundless, collating him with a countless number of people passing by close to him and far away, relating a person to the whole world, that is the meaning of cinema.
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Music: Time in Absence by Alio Die Instant Light (Andrei Tarkovskys Polaroids)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/8iAhLXxe9vc/mqdefault.jpg)
![Wiesław Wałkuski (Polish Poster Art)
Wiesław Wałkuski is a graphic designer born in Poland. Today he is much exhibited and works as a freelancer painter and poster artist.
Wiesław Wałkuski was born in 1956 in Białystok, Poland. He started his graphic design education at the Warsaw Academy of Art which he attended for 5 years, during the period 1976–1981. He studied under several design lecturers including Maciej Urbaniec who lectured in poster design and Teresa Pągowska who lectured in painting. At the end of his studies he was employed by Polfilm and Film Polski to produce artwork and cover designs. During this period he also worked with visual studio publishers and numerous theatre groups producing artwork for productions. In 1987 he commenced his career as a freelance graphic designer.
Today, Wiesław Wałkuski has more than 200 posters to his name and he continues his work as a poster designer, an illustrator and a painter. He lives and works in Warsaw. His works are presented at major Polish and international poster exhibitions including some at The Weidman Gallery in West Hollywood.
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Music: Oöphoi Il Tempo Della Fine Wiesław Wałkuski (Polish Poster Art)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/8mKu7doOMag/mqdefault.jpg)
![Laurie Lipton
Laurie Lipton was born in New York and began drawing at the age of four. She was the first person to graduate from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pennsylvania with a Fine Arts Degree in Drawing (with honours). She has lived in Holland, Belgium, Germany, France and London, and has made her home in Los Angeles since 2011. Her work has been exhibited extensively throughout Europe and the USA.
Lipton was inspired by the religious paintings of the Flemish School. She tried to teach herself how to paint in the style of the 16th century Dutch Masters and failed. When traveling around Europe as a student, she began developing her very own peculiar drawing technique, building up tone with thousands of fine cross-hatching lines like an egg tempera painting. “It’s an insane way to draw”, she says, “but the resulting detail and luminosity is worth the amount of effort. My drawings take longer to create than a painting of equal size and detail.”
“It was all abstract and conceptual art when I attended university. My teachers told me that figurative art went ‘out’ in the Middle Ages and that I should express myself using form and shapes, but splashes on canvas and rocks on the floor bored me. I knew what I wanted: I wanted to create something no one had ever seen before, something that was brewing in the back of my brain. I used to sit for hours in the library copying Durer, Memling, Van Eyck, Goya and Rembrandt. The photographer, Diane Arbus, was another of my inspirations. Her use of black and white hit me at the core of my Being. Black and white is the color of ancient photographs and old TV shows… it is the color of ghosts, longing, time passing, memory, and madness. Black and white ached. I realized that it was perfect for the imagery in my work.”
[from:https://bgfa.us/artists/lipton/index.html]
Music: Steve Roach Perfect Dream Laurie Lipton](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/AAJppBT5ADo/mqdefault.jpg)
![Shohei Manabe
Shohei Manabe is a veteran manga-ka with numerous titles under his belt, including his worldwide best seller Ushijima the Loan Shark, which has sold more than 4 million copies worldwide and was the winner of the 56th Annual Shogakukan Manga Award. Two of Manabes manga have been made into motion pictures, including the acclaimed manga Smuggler, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival 2011.
[from: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4445739.Sh_hei_Manabe]
Music: Swaying Atmosphere from Texhnolyze Shohei Manabe](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/AdwjutII4Yw/mqdefault.jpg)
![Aya Kato
Aya Kato, is an illustrator from Japan, and her artworks are been distinguished by lavishly, vivid shapes and colors. By using her creativity in whatever representations she chooses, Aya would like to awaken the soul that lies fast asleep within many people. Aya Kato’s ideal world is a place where everyone can be in contact with their own life experiences; touching always the very roots of their souls, thinking about friends, and recognizing their true hopes – a world that merges people’s spirits.
“I believe that a good way to start this new age is by uniting the soul of each individual to that of his or her significant others close by. I feel that this is a process that will herald the birth of a new Japan. The passion of my work lies in conveying the Japanese spirit, with its deep roots in Bushido, to the next generation of Japanese.”
[from:https://www.graphicart-news.com/amazingly-lavish-illustrations-by-japanese-aya-kato/]
Music: Chihei Hatakeyama Hvit Tåke Aya Kato](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/B7xLgOHGJ2I/mqdefault.jpg)
![Franklin Booth
Franklin Booth, (July 8, 1874 – August 25, 1948) was an American artist known for his detailed pen-and-ink illustrations. He had a unique illustration style based upon his early recreation of wood engraving illustrations with pen and ink. His skill as a draftsman and style made him a popular magazine illustrator in the early 20th-century. Creator of the Nicholson plate, he was one of the first modern ex libris designers in the United States.
Using watercolor, Booth created book illustrations, such as James Whitcomb Rileys The Flying Islands of the Night. During World War I, he created posters for recruitment, fundraising, and other efforts. As Art Deco style illustrations became popular, his work in latter years was found in commercial publications and catalogs. Although he believe[d] in schools to a certain extent at one point in his career, he co-founded the Phoenix Art Institute and was an educator for 21 years. He was inducted into the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame.
His skilled draftsmanship and unique style made him a popular illustrator.He was considered the best pen-and-ink man in America by an editor of a leading magazine.Despite the laboriousness of his technique, Booths compositions were characterised by a grand sense of space. As a result, his drawings were often well-matched to poetic or editorial entries. With the advent of the clean, smooth, and continuous lines of the Art Deco style illustrations, his works in latter years were found in commercial publications and catalogs.
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Music: Maurice Ravel Kaddish Franklin Booth](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/BQJcOw6eU2I/mqdefault.jpg)