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2002 --- A luxurious library for private study or enjoyment --- Image by © Douglas Hill/Beateworks/Corbis
Watercolour and opaque watercolour, over graphite, with traces of red chalk
The extraordinary precision with which Fuseli draws women's hairstyles matches the meticulous care with which they have been arranged. The hair's potential wildness is disciplined through a framework of geometric shapes, tight curls, and stiffened ribbons. In a patriarchal society, dressing their hair offered many women an opportunity for self-expression. Fuseli's response stages his own fetishistic obsession in tandem with a socially-driven impulse to reassert masculine control over female sexuality.
[The Courtauld]
Taken in the Exhibition
Fuseli and the Modern Woman: Fashion, Fantasy, Fetishism
(October 2022 – January 2023)
One of the most original and eccentric artists of the 18th century, the Swiss-born Henry Fuseli (1741–1825) is the subject of a new exhibition at The Courtauld.
Fuseli spent most of his career in London, where he established himself as one of 18th century Europe’s most controversial artists. He deliberately courted notoriety with his most famous painting The Nightmare and other sensationalistic images inspired by a wide range of literature and his own imagination.
Fuseli was praised by some as a creative genius, while others dismissed his works as ‘shockingly mad’. But much admired by his colleagues, he became the Royal Academy’s Professor of Painting and Keeper of its premises at Somerset House, in what is now The Courtauld Gallery, where he and his wife Sophia Rawlins (1762/3–1832) lived from 1805 until his death.
This exhibition focuses on Fuseli’s numerous private drawings of the modern woman. Blending observed realities with elements of fantasy, these studies present one of the finest draughtsmen of the Romantic period at his most original and provocative. Here, the fashionable women of the period appear as powerful figures of dangerous erotic allure, whom the artist regards with a mix of fascination and mistrust. Perhaps as problematic then as now, this visually compelling body of work provides an insight into anxieties about gender, identity, and sexuality at a time of acute social instability, as the effects of the first modern revolutions – in America and in France – swept across Britain and the Continent. Many of those anxieties still speak vividly to us today.
[The Courtauld]
creatively challenged: triangles
I thought this would be a fairly easy challenge, but actually it took me a lot of time to find a triangle
March 1982, Epcot, Florida, USA --- During the final stages of construction, workers bolt aluminum panels onto the frame of Spaceship Earth, the 180-foot-high geosphere that is the centerpiece of Walt Disney World's EPCOT Center. Orlando, Florida. --- Image by © Kevin Fleming/Corbis
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Today I've been working on....
this Victorian Mourning style hat. On a hand blocked black felt base I stitched pieces of a disassembled black and gunmetal metal necklace made of geometric shapes and finished with a hand tied black bow with long tails hanging down the back.
Its still on my working head, so ignore the holes in her forehead! Hmm black on black doesn't have as deep a contrast in this picture than in RL what with the conflicting textures as well.
Jersey City, New Jersey, USA --- USA, New Jersey, Jersey City, Close up of darts bull's-eye --- Image by © Tetra Images/Corbis
A complex and intricate spherical structure in orange-red tones, reflecting Duncan Rawlinson's exploration of AI and photography.
The swimming bird is made by me.
The thing up there is by my 5yo son. It is not somebody with his/her hands up, as it seems to me.
My son told me that it was one of the angry birds in a slingshot.
Blue Building designed Bernard Tschumi, 105 Norfolk Street , Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
ca. 1966 --- Model wearing striped and patterned wraparound wool coat by Forquet. --- Image by © Condé Nast Archive/CORBIS
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ca. 1966 --- Original caption: Principessa Luciana Pignatelli wearing black-and-white square and circle-patterned pants and halter top, from Naka; large op-art square earrings by Naka; black-and-white patent leather shoes by Eugenia of Florence; hair pulled back into a ponytail by Alba & Francesca of Rome.
Shot of glass rod storage in my studio room. Not the most exciting subject but it seemed to be something a little different to meet this weeks theme of geometric shapes.
I've been away from the torch and kiln too long. Guess that it will be time to get back in there and push the creative juices in another direction.
Hollister House Garden is a hidden gem in Connecticut.
Common Boxwood
Buxus sempervirens
Buxaceae - Boxwood Family
Order:Buxales green
This is a set of aluminum castings that a lady in foundry class made. Geometric shapes embellished with some copper jewelry type elements. I thought they were very cool.
Genoa, Italy --- Courtyard of Town Hall --- Image by © Bruno Morandi/Robert Harding World Imagery/Corbis
See how the rainbow's shape is nicely adding to the shapes that the iron bars made in this frame.
I took the photo with a little tilt to cover the entire rainbow.
Clicked on March 27, 2011 using my Nikon D5000 on a 18 - 55 lens at 18mm with a 3.6 f-stop, 1/15 sec. and a 720 ISO without any flash.
Production photographs taken for the 2009 Science Kit Catalog
Production photographs taken for the 2009 Science Kit Catalog (www.sciencekit.com)
Production photographs taken for the 2009 Science Kit Catalog and CD (www.sciencekit.com)
Production photographs taken for the 2009 Science Kit Catalog and CD (www.sciencekit.com)
Production photographs taken for the 2009 Science Kit Catalog
Production photographs taken for the 2009 Science Kit Catalog (www.sciencekit.com)
Production photographs taken for the 2009 Science Kit Catalog and CD (www.sciencekit.com)
Production photographs taken for the 2009 Science Kit Catalog and CD (www.sciencekit.com)