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From the studio: acrylic on board, 62 x 80cm, 2026

#art #aesthetics #psychology #painting #printmaking

From the studio: acrylic on board, 62 x 80cm, 2026

#art #aesthetics #psychology #painting #printmaking

From the studio: acrylic on board, 62 x 80cm, 2026

#art #aesthetics #psychology #painting #printmaking

From the studio: acrylic on board, 62 x 80cm, 2026

#art #aesthetics #psychology #painting #printmaking

From the studio: acrylic on board, 62 x 80cm, 2026

#art #aesthetics #psychology #painting #printmaking

any recommendations for modernist depictions of agriculture and food production?

i've included some example images below.

some keywords:
* mechanized agriculture
* industrial farming
* industrial food production
* farm as factory
* farm modernization
* chemical agriculture
* green revolution

i've got the following materials on my to-read list:

* "every farm a factory: the industrial ideal in american agriculture" by deborah fitzgerald
* Ch. 8 of "seeing like a state": "Taming Nature: An Agriculture of Legibility and Simplicity" by james c. scott
* "Farming according to 'the laws of beauty': Aesthetics and agriculture" by david cooper (https://www.academia.edu/14380031/Farming_according_to_the_laws_of_beauty_Aesthetics_and_agriculture)
* "the american technological sublime" by david nye (not sure if it has anything about agriculture specifically)
* "the machine in the garden: technology and the pastoral" by leo marx (update: i've now skimmed this work and it seems to be concerned with an earlier era, not the high modernist period)

if you're familiar with any written works looking at this kind of aesthetic specifically, i'd love to hear about it.

also, if you have suggestions for archives (online or irl) that might have more materials like this, i'm all ears.

#sundaylibrarian #history #art #ArtHistory #agriculture #GreenRevolution #food #aesthetics #modernism #industrialization #ResearchLibrarian

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's (1646–1716) first great mathematical achievement was the ‘arithmetic quadrature’ of the circle through his alternating series: π/4 = 1 - 1/3 + 1/5 - 1/7 + 1/9 - 1/11 + ...

He communicated the result to his mathematical mentor Christiaan Huygens (1629–95), who thought it ‘very beautiful and very pleasing’. Isaac Newton (1642–1726) welcomed Leibniz’s work as ‘very elegant’. Leibniz himself wrote that there was no simpler or more beautiful way of expressing the area of a circle using rational numbers.

In a short note concerning the beauty of theorems, Leibniz wrote:

‘Theorems are not intelligible except by their signs or characters. […] The beauty of theorems consists in the beautiful arrangement of their characters.’

To illustrate ‘beautiful arrangement of characters’, Leibniz gave the example of a theorem concerning Berthet’s curve (shown in red in 1st attached image). The detail of its definition is not important here, but it is defined with reference to an arc AC centred at B.

Leibniz's result was a way of finding the tangent to the curve at E: take the tangent to the arc at its intersection with BE (i.e., at D), and find the point F such that FD ∶ DE ∶∶ EB ∶ BD. Then EF is the desired tangent (see 1st attached image).

Why is there a ‘beautiful arrangement of characters’? Because the proportion FD ∶ DE ∶∶ EB ∶ BD is easily remembered via a mnemonic: one can draw the path FD ⋅ DE ⋅ EB ⋅ BD without raising one's pen (2nd attached image).

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#geometry #Leibniz #Huygens #Newton #MathematicalBeauty #aesthetics #HistMath

Open Source Mapping for News - Reuters [tutorial / overview]
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https://scottreinhardmaps.com/blogs/custom-mapping-projects/custom-reuters-open-source-mapping <-- shared technical article
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #Reuters #news #publicmedia #media #maps #cartography #cartographer #opensource #opendata #Mapbox #MapLibre #Maputnik #Protomaps #newsservive #newsroom #news #tools #workflows #tutorials #overview #webmapping #newsorganisations #newsorganizations #automation #reporters #aesthetics #design #graphics #infographics
#Reuters | #OpenStreetMap | #OGC

'Art & Antique Hofburg Vienna' – a very special art event

#artundantiquehofburg #artlovers #Leisure #aesthetics #lifestyle #artperformance #artwork #artist #gallery #vernissage #photography #contemporary #austria #artfair

Today at viennacontemporary – an art event that impressively underlines Vienna’s role as a vibrant center of dialogue between East and West😍

#artlovers #Leisure #aesthetics #lifestyle #artperformance #artwork #artist #gallery #vernissage #photography #contemporary #austria #artfair

https://www.29news.com/2025/09/02/encampments-once-under-free-bridge-move-along-rivanna-trail/ “People are trying to be as cooperative as possible, but they have nowhere to go” #cville #homelessness #policing #sweeps #aesthetics #parks #housing

https://www.29news.com/2025/08/25/charlottesville-relocates-unhoused-encampment-under-freebridge/ “I wish I had an area that I could go tell them to be in and they can be safe and be left alone — because we don’t have a year-round shelter” #cville #homelessness #housing #shortage #sweeps #displacement #aesthetics #parks

Brainstorming my characters' hair color (yes, really) yields a fascinating plot thread: alien microbes that make their manes liquid copper.

Read more at my #blog: https://www.adamasnemesis.com/2025/03/12/manes-of-metal/

This post's featured image is John William Godward's "A Congenial Task".

#worldbuilding #scifi #sciencefiction #story #writing #writer #author #scifistory #hair #beauty #aesthetics #hairdye #OCs #originalcharacters #characters

Scaling In Branch Thickness And The Fractal Aesthetic Of Trees [In Art From Da Vinci To Mondrian]
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https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/4/2/pgaf003/7996468 <-- shared paper
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[not my usual fare, but love the spatial mathematical components, although the maths is way over my head!]
#spatial #maths #mathematics #art #painting #representation #daVinci #LeonardodaVinci #MurraysLaw #tree #vegetation #fractal #fractals #α #biology #artwork #radiusscalingexponent #branches #branching #nature #naturalpatterns #proportions #physiology #Mondrian #aesthetic #aesthetics #scale #scaling

Scaling In Branch Thickness And The Fractal Aesthetic Of Trees [In Art From Da Vinci To Mondrian]
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https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/4/2/pgaf003/7996468 <-- shared paper
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[not my usual fare, but love the spatial mathematical components, although the maths is way over my head!]
#spatial #maths #mathematics #art #painting #representation #daVinci #LeonardodaVinci #MurraysLaw #tree #vegetation #fractal #fractals #α #biology #artwork #radiusscalingexponent #branches #branching #nature #naturalpatterns #proportions #physiology #Mondrian #aesthetic #aesthetics #scale #scaling

Scaling In Branch Thickness And The Fractal Aesthetic Of Trees [In Art From Da Vinci To Mondrian]
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https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/4/2/pgaf003/7996468 <-- shared paper
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[not my usual fare, but love the spatial mathematical components, although the maths is way over my head!]
#spatial #maths #mathematics #art #painting #representation #daVinci #LeonardodaVinci #MurraysLaw #tree #vegetation #fractal #fractals #α #biology #artwork #radiusscalingexponent #branches #branching #nature #naturalpatterns #proportions #physiology #Mondrian #aesthetic #aesthetics #scale #scaling

Scaling In Branch Thickness And The Fractal Aesthetic Of Trees [In Art From Da Vinci To Mondrian]
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https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/4/2/pgaf003/7996468 <-- shared paper
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[not my usual fare, but love the spatial mathematical components, although the maths is way over my head!]
#spatial #maths #mathematics #art #painting #representation #daVinci #LeonardodaVinci #MurraysLaw #tree #vegetation #fractal #fractals #α #biology #artwork #radiusscalingexponent #branches #branching #nature #naturalpatterns #proportions #physiology #Mondrian #aesthetic #aesthetics #scale #scaling

Scaling In Branch Thickness And The Fractal Aesthetic Of Trees [In Art From Da Vinci To Mondrian]
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https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/4/2/pgaf003/7996468 <-- shared paper
--
[not my usual fare, but love the spatial mathematical components, although the maths is way over my head!]
#spatial #maths #mathematics #art #painting #representation #daVinci #LeonardodaVinci #MurraysLaw #tree #vegetation #fractal #fractals #α #biology #artwork #radiusscalingexponent #branches #branching #nature #naturalpatterns #proportions #physiology #Mondrian #aesthetic #aesthetics #scale #scaling

today at the opening of the 55th edition of 'Art & Antique Vienna 2024' in the Hofburg.

#artlovers #pleasure #relaxing #Leisure #aesthetics #lifestyle #artperformance #artist #gallery #photography #contemporary #austria #artfair #paintings #artlounge #exhebition

at the 'FAIR FOR ART Vienna', the exclusive platform for modern and contemporary art, in the 'Aula der Wissenschaften'

#artlovers #pleasure #relaxing #Leisure #aesthetics #lifestyle #artperformance #artist #gallery #photography #contemporary #austria🇦🇹 #artfair #paintings #artlounge #exhebition

I got this book a while ago and haven’t ever fully explored it. But it is amazing.

I feel like every time I open it, I discover another weird little insight or aphorism.

Maybe I’ll put a few of these in a thread. They are really unexpected, especially out of context.

#learnArt #bookstodon #aesthetics #amReading

#CfP für die #Tagung "#literarästhetisches Lernen außerhalb des Klassenzimmers – #interdisziplinäre Perspektiven”, die vom 11. bis 13. März 2025 in Münster stattfinden wird.

🗓️Deadline für Abstracts: 10. Januar 2024

📌Weitere Informationen:
https://avldigital.de/de/vernetzen/details/callforpapers/tagung-literarasthetisches-lernen-ausserhalb-des-klassenzimmers-interdisziplinare-perspektiven-m/ #Aesthetics #Literaturdidaktik #fidavlnews @germanistik @litstudies