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  1. My Classical Music Primer: Stravinsky Edition — The Heat of Integration, The Heat of Friction
    Mozart's dynamism comes from integration: the orchestra converging into one melody, one breath. Stravinsky's Rite of Spring runs on the opposite fuel — fragments colliding, voices refusing to merge. A first-listen impression: fascinating, but not exactly something I'd reach for again.

    hiroaki-satou.com/entry/2026/0

    #Stravinsky #RiteOfSpring #ClassicalMusic #Mozart #Cubism #music

  2. "Nature Morte Cubiste," Maria Blanchard, 1917.

    Spanish painter Blanchard (1881-1932) had a sad life in many ways; she had lifelong physical health problems that left her mobility-impaired and badly bullied as a child, and as a result also had a number of mental health problems as well. But she channeled her physical and emotional pain into becoming a distinctive Cubist artist.

    A close friend of my favorite Cubist, Juan Gris, the two inspired each other and often worked together. His passing in 1927 left her badly depressed and while family moved in to help restore her health, she had to work to support them. Eventually tuberculosis took her, but the strain of her physical, emotional, and financial difficulties didn't help.

    Her Cubism is fairly distinctive, with sharply defined, flat geometric shapes. What she's depicting here is unclear, so perhaps this qualifies as an Abstract work as well.

    She moved away from Cubism in the 20s and became more representational yet still distinctly modernist. While she achieved some respect in her lifetime, it took a while for her work to achieve acclaim and recognition as female Modern artist.

    From a private collection.

    #Art #MariaBlanchard #Cubism #WomenAritists #Herstory

  3. "Nature Morte Cubiste," Maria Blanchard, 1917.

    Spanish painter Blanchard (1881-1932) had a sad life in many ways; she had lifelong physical health problems that left her mobility-impaired and badly bullied as a child, and as a result also had a number of mental health problems as well. But she channeled her physical and emotional pain into becoming a distinctive Cubist artist.

    A close friend of my favorite Cubist, Juan Gris, the two inspired each other and often worked together. His passing in 1927 left her badly depressed and while family moved in to help restore her health, she had to work to support them. Eventually tuberculosis took her, but the strain of her physical, emotional, and financial difficulties didn't help.

    Her Cubism is fairly distinctive, with sharply defined, flat geometric shapes. What she's depicting here is unclear, so perhaps this qualifies as an Abstract work as well.

    She moved away from Cubism in the 20s and became more representational yet still distinctly modernist. While she achieved some respect in her lifetime, it took a while for her work to achieve acclaim and recognition as female Modern artist.

    From a private collection.

    #Art #MariaBlanchard #Cubism #WomenAritists #Herstory

  4. "Nature Morte Cubiste," Maria Blanchard, 1917.

    Spanish painter Blanchard (1881-1932) had a sad life in many ways; she had lifelong physical health problems that left her mobility-impaired and badly bullied as a child, and as a result also had a number of mental health problems as well. But she channeled her physical and emotional pain into becoming a distinctive Cubist artist.

    A close friend of my favorite Cubist, Juan Gris, the two inspired each other and often worked together. His passing in 1927 left her badly depressed and while family moved in to help restore her health, she had to work to support them. Eventually tuberculosis took her, but the strain of her physical, emotional, and financial difficulties didn't help.

    Her Cubism is fairly distinctive, with sharply defined, flat geometric shapes. What she's depicting here is unclear, so perhaps this qualifies as an Abstract work as well.

    She moved away from Cubism in the 20s and became more representational yet still distinctly modernist. While she achieved some respect in her lifetime, it took a while for her work to achieve acclaim and recognition as female Modern artist.

    From a private collection.

    #Art #MariaBlanchard #Cubism #WomenAritists #Herstory

  5. "Nature Morte Cubiste," Maria Blanchard, 1917.

    Spanish painter Blanchard (1881-1932) had a sad life in many ways; she had lifelong physical health problems that left her mobility-impaired and badly bullied as a child, and as a result also had a number of mental health problems as well. But she channeled her physical and emotional pain into becoming a distinctive Cubist artist.

    A close friend of my favorite Cubist, Juan Gris, the two inspired each other and often worked together. His passing in 1927 left her badly depressed and while family moved in to help restore her health, she had to work to support them. Eventually tuberculosis took her, but the strain of her physical, emotional, and financial difficulties didn't help.

    Her Cubism is fairly distinctive, with sharply defined, flat geometric shapes. What she's depicting here is unclear, so perhaps this qualifies as an Abstract work as well.

    She moved away from Cubism in the 20s and became more representational yet still distinctly modernist. While she achieved some respect in her lifetime, it took a while for her work to achieve acclaim and recognition as female Modern artist.

    From a private collection.

    #Art #MariaBlanchard #Cubism #WomenAritists #Herstory

  6. "Nature Morte Cubiste," Maria Blanchard, 1917.

    Spanish painter Blanchard (1881-1932) had a sad life in many ways; she had lifelong physical health problems that left her mobility-impaired and badly bullied as a child, and as a result also had a number of mental health problems as well. But she channeled her physical and emotional pain into becoming a distinctive Cubist artist.

    A close friend of my favorite Cubist, Juan Gris, the two inspired each other and often worked together. His passing in 1927 left her badly depressed and while family moved in to help restore her health, she had to work to support them. Eventually tuberculosis took her, but the strain of her physical, emotional, and financial difficulties didn't help.

    Her Cubism is fairly distinctive, with sharply defined, flat geometric shapes. What she's depicting here is unclear, so perhaps this qualifies as an Abstract work as well.

    She moved away from Cubism in the 20s and became more representational yet still distinctly modernist. While she achieved some respect in her lifetime, it took a while for her work to achieve acclaim and recognition as female Modern artist.

    From a private collection.

    #Art #MariaBlanchard #Cubism #WomenAritists #Herstory

  7. 🎨 Jeg købte en ny æske bløde, lækre, farvemættede Gallery oliepasteller fra Mungyo for nylig. De skulle selvfølgelig prøves af, så jeg lavede disse to (børne)tegninger, som blev givet væk som gave i weekenden.

    #tegnetrut #oilpastels #art #cubism #abstractart

  8. 🎨 Jeg købte en ny æske bløde, lækre, farvemættede Gallery oliepasteller fra Mungyo for nylig. De skulle selvfølgelig prøves af, så jeg lavede disse to (børne)tegninger, som blev givet væk som gave i weekenden.

    #tegnetrut #oilpastels #art #cubism #abstractart

  9. 🎨 Jeg købte en ny æske bløde, lækre, farvemættede Gallery oliepasteller fra Mungyo for nylig. De skulle selvfølgelig prøves af, så jeg lavede disse to (børne)tegninger, som blev givet væk som gave i weekenden.

    #tegnetrut #oilpastels #art #cubism #abstractart

  10. 🎨 Jeg købte en ny æske bløde, lækre, farvemættede Gallery oliepasteller fra Mungyo for nylig. De skulle selvfølgelig prøves af, så jeg lavede disse to (børne)tegninger, som blev givet væk som gave i weekenden.

    #tegnetrut #oilpastels #art #cubism #abstractart

  11. 🎨 Jeg købte en ny æske bløde, lækre, farvemættede Gallery oliepasteller fra Mungyo for nylig. De skulle selvfølgelig prøves af, så jeg lavede disse to (børne)tegninger, som blev givet væk som gave i weekenden.

    #tegnetrut #oilpastels #art #cubism #abstractart

  12. The week before, Luc is conducting an immersive limited-attendance online seminar on #painter #TamaraDeLempicka's #art and its relations to contemporaneous #music, #poetry, and #drama.

    TouchingTheArt.com/courses.htm

    #Lempicka thought #Picasso's #Cubism was ugly, refusing to follow the trend of non-representational #AbstractArt and absurdism. Instead, she painted beauty and sensuality and passion as her #ArtDeco style blossomed in the 1920s Paris art scene.

    #TamaraŁempicka #painting #artist

  13. The week before, Luc is conducting an immersive limited-attendance online seminar on #painter #TamaraDeLempicka's #art and its relations to contemporaneous #music, #poetry, and #drama.

    TouchingTheArt.com/courses.htm

    #Lempicka thought #Picasso's #Cubism was ugly, refusing to follow the trend of non-representational #AbstractArt and absurdism. Instead, she painted beauty and sensuality and passion as her #ArtDeco style blossomed in the 1920s Paris art scene.

    #TamaraŁempicka #painting #artist

  14. The week before, Luc is conducting an immersive limited-attendance online seminar on #painter #TamaraDeLempicka's #art and its relations to contemporaneous #music, #poetry, and #drama.

    TouchingTheArt.com/courses.htm

    #Lempicka thought #Picasso's #Cubism was ugly, refusing to follow the trend of non-representational #AbstractArt and absurdism. Instead, she painted beauty and sensuality and passion as her #ArtDeco style blossomed in the 1920s Paris art scene.

    #TamaraŁempicka #painting #artist

  15. The week before, Luc is conducting an immersive limited-attendance online seminar on #painter #TamaraDeLempicka's #art and its relations to contemporaneous #music, #poetry, and #drama.

    TouchingTheArt.com/courses.htm

    #Lempicka thought #Picasso's #Cubism was ugly, refusing to follow the trend of non-representational #AbstractArt and absurdism. Instead, she painted beauty and sensuality and passion as her #ArtDeco style blossomed in the 1920s Paris art scene.

    #TamaraŁempicka #painting #artist

  16. Lens-Artist Challenge #354: Reflections

    It’s Anne’s turn, from Slow Shutter Speed, to host the Challenge this week, and I couldn’t be more excited. Her theme is, ‘Reflections‘, and as soon as I saw this, I knew instantly what I was going to do. Not the subject, necessarily, but certainly the technique. It was time to break out the Vortoscope.

    Back in the early twentieth century, a group of British artists and poets formed the Vorticist movement, an offshoot of cubism, which ‘rejected landscapes and nudes in favour of a geometric style that was much more abstract‘. Published by writer and artist Wyndam Lewis in 1914, a manifesto pamphlet called ‘Blast‘ declared, ‘Long live the Vortex! Long live the great art vortex sprung up in the centre of this town! [London] We stand for the Reality of the Present — not for the sentimental Future, or the sacripant Past. We want to leave Nature and Men alone’. 

    Self portrait of Alvin Langdon Coburn (Wikimedia)

    The manifestos in Blast carried on like that for another 200 or so pages, and from the quote above, I’m not even sure what ‘sacripant’ means. From what I can tell, it’s from the French meaning, scoundrel, or rogue, so I imagine the Vorticists were just trying to distance themselves from a ‘scandalous’ past. Anyhow, around 1915, the American photographer and recent émigrée to London, Alvin Langdon Coburn, met one of the Vorticists, poet Ezra Pound, and became involved in the movement.

    Over a period of just one month, Coburn produced a series of portraits and photographs which featured overlapping and abstract images, and to create these he made a device that Ezra Pound called a Vortoscope, and the photographs it produces Vortographs. A triangle of mirrors like a kaleidoscope, when viewed through the camera the subject was fractured and reflected within it. The Vortoscope I made was a triangle of mirrors 3cm wide and 15cm in length. On reflection (pun definitely intended) I should have made each edge a little wider, though the Vortoscope works fine.

    In use, the Vortoscope is simply held over the lens of the camera and the image in the viewfinder, or on the LED screen, is broken up and presented as a kind of abstract. A lot actually depends on the subject, and I’m not convinced that I’ve ever found the right subject/Vortoscope  combination. The original Vortoscope was always awkward to hold in front of the lens, so I’ve mounted it semi-permanently to a UV filter mount (with the filter removed), which hopefully will make use of the Vortoscope a little bit easier. The images were taken with a Canon Powershot G12, and mounted on a filter attachment.

    I took one of my regular walks around the block, but this time I took a different route and I tried to make vortographs of man-made objects; telephone and electricity poles, doors and gates, and the patterns of the porcelain tiles that cover a lot of the houses in Portugal.

    Themes for the Lens-Artists Challenge are posted each Saturday at 12:00 noon EST (which is 4pm, GMT) and anyone who wants to take part can post their images during the week. If you want to know more about the Challenge, details can be found here, and entries can be found on the WordPress reader using the tag ‘Lens-Artists’.

    If you are on Mastodon, you can now follow this blog directly. Just go to Mastodon and follow the ‘Snapshot’ WordPress account at @keithdevereux.wordpress.com. All new posts will be automatically updated to your timeline.

    #Abstract #Art #Challenge #Cubism #Cubist #LensArtists #PhotographyModernArt #Reflections #Surrealism #Vintage #Vortism #Vortograph #Vortoscope #LensArtists

  17. Lens-Artist Challenge #354: Reflections

    It’s Anne’s turn, from Slow Shutter Speed, to host the Challenge this week, and I couldn’t be more excited. Her theme is, ‘Reflections‘, and as soon as I saw this, I knew instantly what I was going to do. Not the subject, necessarily, but certainly the technique. It was time to break out the Vortoscope.

    Back in the early twentieth century, a group of British artists and poets formed the Vorticist movement, an offshoot of cubism, which ‘rejected landscapes and nudes in favour of a geometric style that was much more abstract‘. Published by writer and artist Wyndam Lewis in 1914, a manifesto pamphlet called ‘Blast‘ declared, ‘Long live the Vortex! Long live the great art vortex sprung up in the centre of this town! [London] We stand for the Reality of the Present — not for the sentimental Future, or the sacripant Past. We want to leave Nature and Men alone’. 

    Self portrait of Alvin Langdon Coburn (Wikimedia)

    The manifestos in Blast carried on like that for another 200 or so pages, and from the quote above, I’m not even sure what ‘sacripant’ means. From what I can tell, it’s from the French meaning, scoundrel, or rogue, so I imagine the Vorticists were just trying to distance themselves from a ‘scandalous’ past. Anyhow, around 1915, the American photographer and recent émigrée to London, Alvin Langdon Coburn, met one of the Vorticists, poet Ezra Pound, and became involved in the movement.

    Over a period of just one month, Coburn produced a series of portraits and photographs which featured overlapping and abstract images, and to create these he made a device that Ezra Pound called a Vortoscope, and the photographs it produces Vortographs. A triangle of mirrors like a kaleidoscope, when viewed through the camera the subject was fractured and reflected within it. The Vortoscope I made was a triangle of mirrors 3cm wide and 15cm in length. On reflection (pun definitely intended) I should have made each edge a little wider, though the Vortoscope works fine.

    In use, the Vortoscope is simply held over the lens of the camera and the image in the viewfinder, or on the LED screen, is broken up and presented as a kind of abstract. A lot actually depends on the subject, and I’m not convinced that I’ve ever found the right subject/Vortoscope  combination. The original Vortoscope was always awkward to hold in front of the lens, so I’ve mounted it semi-permanently to a UV filter mount (with the filter removed), which hopefully will make use of the Vortoscope a little bit easier. The images were taken with a Canon Powershot G12, and mounted on a filter attachment.

    I took one of my regular walks around the block, but this time I took a different route and I tried to make vortographs of man-made objects; telephone and electricity poles, doors and gates, and the patterns of the porcelain tiles that cover a lot of the houses in Portugal.

    Themes for the Lens-Artists Challenge are posted each Saturday at 12:00 noon EST (which is 4pm, GMT) and anyone who wants to take part can post their images during the week. If you want to know more about the Challenge, details can be found here, and entries can be found on the WordPress reader using the tag ‘Lens-Artists’.

    If you are on Mastodon, you can now follow this blog directly. Just go to Mastodon and follow the ‘Snapshot’ WordPress account at @keithdevereux.wordpress.com. All new posts will be automatically updated to your timeline.

    #Abstract #Art #Challenge #Cubism #Cubist #LensArtists #PhotographyModernArt #Reflections #Surrealism #Vintage #Vortism #Vortograph #Vortoscope #LensArtists

  18. Lens-Artist Challenge #354: Reflections

    It’s Anne’s turn, from Slow Shutter Speed, to host the Challenge this week, and I couldn’t be more excited. Her theme is, ‘Reflections‘, and as soon as I saw this, I knew instantly what I was going to do. Not the subject, necessarily, but certainly the technique. It was time to break out the Vortoscope.

    Back in the early twentieth century, a group of British artists and poets formed the Vorticist movement, an offshoot of cubism, which ‘rejected landscapes and nudes in favour of a geometric style that was much more abstract‘. Published by writer and artist Wyndam Lewis in 1914, a manifesto pamphlet called ‘Blast‘ declared, ‘Long live the Vortex! Long live the great art vortex sprung up in the centre of this town! [London] We stand for the Reality of the Present — not for the sentimental Future, or the sacripant Past. We want to leave Nature and Men alone’. 

    Self portrait of Alvin Langdon Coburn (Wikimedia)

    The manifestos in Blast carried on like that for another 200 or so pages, and from the quote above, I’m not even sure what ‘sacripant’ means. From what I can tell, it’s from the French meaning, scoundrel, or rogue, so I imagine the Vorticists were just trying to distance themselves from a ‘scandalous’ past. Anyhow, around 1915, the American photographer and recent émigrée to London, Alvin Langdon Coburn, met one of the Vorticists, poet Ezra Pound, and became involved in the movement.

    Over a period of just one month, Coburn produced a series of portraits and photographs which featured overlapping and abstract images, and to create these he made a device that Ezra Pound called a Vortoscope, and the photographs it produces Vortographs. A triangle of mirrors like a kaleidoscope, when viewed through the camera the subject was fractured and reflected within it. The Vortoscope I made was a triangle of mirrors 3cm wide and 15cm in length. On reflection (pun definitely intended) I should have made each edge a little wider, though the Vortoscope works fine.

    In use, the Vortoscope is simply held over the lens of the camera and the image in the viewfinder, or on the LED screen, is broken up and presented as a kind of abstract. A lot actually depends on the subject, and I’m not convinced that I’ve ever found the right subject/Vortoscope  combination. The original Vortoscope was always awkward to hold in front of the lens, so I’ve mounted it semi-permanently to a UV filter mount (with the filter removed), which hopefully will make use of the Vortoscope a little bit easier. The images were taken with a Canon Powershot G12, and mounted on a filter attachment.

    I took one of my regular walks around the block, but this time I took a different route and I tried to make vortographs of man-made objects; telephone and electricity poles, doors and gates, and the patterns of the porcelain tiles that cover a lot of the houses in Portugal.

    Themes for the Lens-Artists Challenge are posted each Saturday at 12:00 noon EST (which is 4pm, GMT) and anyone who wants to take part can post their images during the week. If you want to know more about the Challenge, details can be found here, and entries can be found on the WordPress reader using the tag ‘Lens-Artists’.

    If you are on Mastodon, you can now follow this blog directly. Just go to Mastodon and follow the ‘Snapshot’ WordPress account at @keithdevereux.wordpress.com. All new posts will be automatically updated to your timeline.

    #Abstract #Art #Challenge #Cubism #Cubist #LensArtists #PhotographyModernArt #Reflections #Surrealism #Vintage #Vortism #Vortograph #Vortoscope #LensArtists

  19. Lens-Artist Challenge #354: Reflections

    It’s Anne’s turn, from Slow Shutter Speed, to host the Challenge this week, and I couldn’t be more excited. Her theme is, ‘Reflections‘, and as soon as I saw this, I knew instantly what I was going to do. Not the subject, necessarily, but certainly the technique. It was time to break out the Vortoscope.

    Back in the early twentieth century, a group of British artists and poets formed the Vorticist movement, an offshoot of cubism, which ‘rejected landscapes and nudes in favour of a geometric style that was much more abstract‘. Published by writer and artist Wyndam Lewis in 1914, a manifesto pamphlet called ‘Blast‘ declared, ‘Long live the Vortex! Long live the great art vortex sprung up in the centre of this town! [London] We stand for the Reality of the Present — not for the sentimental Future, or the sacripant Past. We want to leave Nature and Men alone’. 

    Self portrait of Alvin Langdon Coburn (Wikimedia)

    The manifestos in Blast carried on like that for another 200 or so pages, and from the quote above, I’m not even sure what ‘sacripant’ means. From what I can tell, it’s from the French meaning, scoundrel, or rogue, so I imagine the Vorticists were just trying to distance themselves from a ‘scandalous’ past. Anyhow, around 1915, the American photographer and recent émigrée to London, Alvin Langdon Coburn, met one of the Vorticists, poet Ezra Pound, and became involved in the movement.

    Over a period of just one month, Coburn produced a series of portraits and photographs which featured overlapping and abstract images, and to create these he made a device that Ezra Pound called a Vortoscope, and the photographs it produces Vortographs. A triangle of mirrors like a kaleidoscope, when viewed through the camera the subject was fractured and reflected within it. The Vortoscope I made was a triangle of mirrors 3cm wide and 15cm in length. On reflection (pun definitely intended) I should have made each edge a little wider, though the Vortoscope works fine.

    In use, the Vortoscope is simply held over the lens of the camera and the image in the viewfinder, or on the LED screen, is broken up and presented as a kind of abstract. A lot actually depends on the subject, and I’m not convinced that I’ve ever found the right subject/Vortoscope  combination. The original Vortoscope was always awkward to hold in front of the lens, so I’ve mounted it semi-permanently to a UV filter mount (with the filter removed), which hopefully will make use of the Vortoscope a little bit easier. The images were taken with a Canon Powershot G12, and mounted on a filter attachment.

    I took one of my regular walks around the block, but this time I took a different route and I tried to make vortographs of man-made objects; telephone and electricity poles, doors and gates, and the patterns of the porcelain tiles that cover a lot of the houses in Portugal.

    Themes for the Lens-Artists Challenge are posted each Saturday at 12:00 noon EST (which is 4pm, GMT) and anyone who wants to take part can post their images during the week. If you want to know more about the Challenge, details can be found here, and entries can be found on the WordPress reader using the tag ‘Lens-Artists’.

    If you are on Mastodon, you can now follow this blog directly. Just go to Mastodon and follow the ‘Snapshot’ WordPress account at @keithdevereux.wordpress.com. All new posts will be automatically updated to your timeline.

    #Abstract #Art #Challenge #Cubism #Cubist #LensArtists #PhotographyModernArt #Reflections #Surrealism #Vintage #Vortism #Vortograph #Vortoscope #LensArtists