November 5, 2009

Art: Léon Spilliaert


All Things Amazing: Léon Spilliaert (1881-1946)
"...was a Belgian symbolist painter and graphic artist." (read more at Wikipedia)
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November 3, 2009

Book Covers: Uruguayan Vintage

Flickr: sección áurea: portadas de libros uruguayos (60's y 70's)
Via El Burlador

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Children's Books: Dieren prentenboek

Illustrations by Reijer (Reyer) Stolk, 1945

Dieren prentenboek : silhouetten / Reyer Stolk
Via BibliOdyssey
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Illustration/Art: Lou Loeber

Art by Lou Loeber, 1927

Gouden vlinders / versjes door S. Franke ; plaatjes van Lou Loeber
Via BibliOdyssey


Lou Loeber
(b Amsterdam, 3 May 1894; d Blaricum, 1 Feb 1983). Dutch painter. She trained at the Rijksacademie in Amsterdam (1915-18). She discovered Cubism, especially that of Albert Gleizes, the work of De Stijl and of Le Corbusier in 1919. During 1920-21 the form in her work became more rigid and the colour more sober. She came into contact with works by Piet Mondrian in the Salomon Bernard Slijper (1884-1971) collection (now at the Gemeentemuseum, The Hague), in particular Evolution (1910-11) and Red Windmill (1910). In 1927 she travelled to the Bauhaus at Dessau and to Berlin. She favoured subjects taken from industry and technology and stylized reality using the diagonal, as well as the horizontal and vertical line. A link with visible reality was maintained, however. (Answers.com)
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Graphic Art: Paper Money

Le Corbusier

Will's Online World Paper Money Gallery
Via Coudal Partners/MoOM

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Katt bland hermeliner

Cover by Martin Gavler, 1956


Photos: Santos

Santos, Brazil

Flickr: P-E Fronning's photos
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Book Covers: Guinea-Bissau Fairy Tales and more


A Journey Round My Skull: Image Dive 5
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October 13, 2009

Vintage Photos: Hot Day in Hvetlanda

I happened to find this old stereo-photograph in a antique store today. On the back it reads "Victorins hus, -torget, -Hvetlanda." (Victorins house, -the square, -Hvetlanda).
It looks like that day - I guess in the beginning of the previous century - was a hot day. Not a day for bandy.
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