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  1. Craig needed an ATM on the way to the car wash, so we stopped at the midcentury modern classic BoA in downtown Palm Springs.

    PS takes its midcentury heritage very seriously (Modernism Week each year brings 100,000 visitors.)

    The 1959 Bank of America building has undergone a total renovation, and looks fabulous.


    pspreservationfoundation.org/p

  2. Craig needed an ATM on the way to the car wash, so we stopped at the midcentury modern classic BoA in downtown Palm Springs.

    PS takes its midcentury heritage very seriously (Modernism Week each year brings 100,000 visitors.)

    The 1959 Bank of America building has undergone a total renovation, and looks fabulous.

    #Midcentury
    #Modernism

    pspreservationfoundation.org/p

  3. Multi – Culted

    Trigger warnings. Relatively honest thoughts about multiculturalism. Next on News at 5, "man beats dead horse." Stay tuned.

    vianegativa6.wordpress.com/202

  4. "Guitar on a Table," Juan Gris, 1915.

    I've talked about Juan Gris, my favorite Cubist, before, so I won't go into his story again. But I love his clean lines and his ability to be Cubist while still making his objects discernable.

    Here he's got a guitar (a frequent motif in his work) against sheet music on a tabletop...but the guitar has only five strings, and the music is missing a line from the staff. He's letting us know what they are without being a slave to naturalism, which I respect.

    Gris was a champion of "Crystal Cubism" and did many paintings I admire...and I usually don't like Cubism! There's just something about his firm vision and ability to render an object while still toying with perspective that I really like.

    From the Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, The Netherlands.

    #Art #JuanGris #MyFavoriteCubist #Cubism #CrystalCubism #Modernism

  5. "Guitar in Front of the Sea," Juan Gris, 1925.

    As I've said before, I don't care much for Cubism, except for Juan Gris' style.

    Spaniard Gris (1887-1927) started off as an illustrator and cartoonist, but moved to Paris and plunged himself into the avant-garde art world. He became a passionate Cubist, and in my view the best, as he practiced "Crystal Cubism" where he broke down things to their component shapes, but kept them still recognizable. His remarkably clean lines appeal to me.

    The guitar here is two intersecting triangles with a rectangle thrust in it...the newspaper is two trapezoids together...the sea is some white lines on blue with a plain white triangle indicating a sailboat. We also have sheet music, a pear, and what may be the Ace of Diamonds....and while they're all distinctly Cubist, you still easily recognize them.

    Poor health meant he died young and never moved to another style. As some critics have said, he's the purest Cubist of the lot.

    From the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid.

    #Art #JuanGris #Cubism #StillLife #CrystalCubism #Modernism #MyFavoriteCubist

  6. 2025/180

    Die Rollei 35 ist so extrem klein und unauffällig, dass ich mit ihr auch gut meinen Weg in die Arbeit dokumentieren kann. In dieser Serie sieht man Bilder, die ich aus dem Wagon einer U1 geschossen habe. Hier sieht man ein Friedens-Murial „Woman with dove“ von Fintan Magee am United Nations Office at Vienna (UNOV) angebracht. Kurz vor der Einfahrt in die U-Bahn-Station Kaisermühlen VIC kann man einen guten Blick darauf erhaschen.

    Permalink: flickr

    Location: ///closed.flopped.surviving

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    #35mm #AgfaAPX400 #architecture #BelieveInFilm #callelibre #commute #donaustadt #fensterblick #FilmIsNotDead #filmphotography #fintanmagee #friedenstaube #kaisermühlen #karlender25 #modernism #monochrome #murial #rollei35 #sonnar40mm28 #stadtentwicklung #streetart #uBahn #u1 #uno #urban #vic #wien

  7. 2025/179

    Die Rollei 35 ist so extrem klein und unauffällig, dass ich mit ihr auch gut meinen Weg in die Arbeit dokumentieren kann. In dieser Serie sieht man Bilder, die ich aus dem Wagon einer U1 geschossen habe. Hier sieht man Teile des United Nations Office at Vienna (UNOV) kurz vor der Einfahrt in die U-Bahn-Station Kaisermühlen VIC.

    Permalink: flickr

    Location: ///windy.evenings.presses

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    More: karlender.net/6693/
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    #35mm #AgfaAPX400 #architecture #BelieveInFilm #commute #donaustadt #fensterblick #FilmIsNotDead #filmphotography #kaisermühlen #karlender25 #modernism #monochrome #rollei35 #sonnar40mm28 #stadtentwicklung #uBahn #u1 #uno #urban #vic #wien

  8. Why am I obsessing over a children's bunny? Because Miffy is accidentally revolutionary. She’s the love child of Dutch modernism. And honestly, looking at how this little rabbit has captivated the world for 70 years, I think her creator cracked the code.

    #nijntje #miffy #modernism #dutchmodernism #mondriaan #matisse

    snobbyfreelancer.com/a-moderni