Objets d'art Intéressants (Interesting Art Objects)

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Future spacemen use electric welders to build an orbital outpost, illustrated on a 1968 Soviet postcard by Andrei Sokolov and cosmonaut Alexei Leonov.

 

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“Martian Emerges." Classic Henrique Alvim Corrêa art ...

“Martian Emerges." Classic Henrique Alvim Corrêa art for a 1906 edition of H.G. Wells' THE WAR OF THE WORLDS.

 

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Future cosmonauts in space, resplendently illustrated by Marian Stachurski in a 1968 Soviet science book for children.

 

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The art of John Berkey (1932-2008)

 

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Thomas Cole

 

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Soviet space art by Valentin Viktorov

 

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The USA and USSR meet in space during the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project mission, pictured in 1975 NASA concept art by Paul Fjeld.

 

[haiducii]

Some of us may give our used tea bags a second life by squeezing an extra steep out of them, but Ruby Silvious takes things a step further by using the thin paper as a canvas for miniature paintings. Silvious mirrors the simple ritual of tea drinking in quiet paintings that show slices of everyday life, like laundry drying and cats looking out the window.

The artist began her initial year-long series of paintings in January 2015. Since then, Silvious has compiled that year into a book, and traveled to Japan and southern France for month-long sessions of tea drinking and painting. Her work is included in a group show “Deemed a Canvas” at Paradigm Gallery in Philadelphia, which opens on January 26th.

 

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[brmstn69]

"Book Of The Dead" Large print edition?

 

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Duncan Grant (British, 1885-1978)

A post by jasknight12 in the Today In History thread inspired me to post these:

Bathing 1911

Bathers by the pond

David Garnett

Portrait of a male nude

Paul Roche

St.Blaise

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[haiducii]

Functional homemade steampunk computer, made of solid pine wood and real antique barometers and trivets.

 

[gorgik9]

"Book Of The Dead" Large print edition?

No, Codex Gigas, the largest existant medieval Bible manuscript, created in the Benedictine monastery of Podlazice, Bohemia (nowadays Czech Republic), and kept in emperor Rudolf II's imperial library in the Hradcany, Prague...

...until 1648 when the Swedish army took it as spoils of war in the Thirty Years' War. So since 1648 it's been one of the two greatest manuscript treasures kept in Swedish libraries. Codex Gigas is kept in the Royal Library in Stockholm, the other great treasure is the Codex Argenteus, kept in the library of Uppsala University, Carolina Rediviva.

And Codex Argenteus was also snitched in Prague by the Swedish Army in 1648 X_X

 

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'Wolf Pen Creek' by Gary Edward Jennings

 

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Space Family Robinson, issue #35, published by Gold Key, August 1969. Cover art by George Wilson.

 

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Penis Art

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