The Beach, St. Malo, c. 1900
James Wilson Morrice Canadian, 1865 - 1924
Oil on canvas
38.5 x 55.5 cm
Bequest of David R. Morrice, Montreal, 1981
© 2013 Art Gallery of Ontario
What did Auden check out from the library?
Ohhh winter, you are coming aren’t you? Looks peaceful, but reality not so much.
Levis from Quebec, 1906
Maurice Cullen, Canadian, 1866 - 1934
Oil on canvas, Overall: 76.7 x 102.2 cm,
Gift from the Albert H. Robson Memorial Subscription Fund, 1946
2012 Art Gallery of Ontario
Spanish artists Luzinterruptus seized the Square with their illuminated book installation for The Light in Winter 2012. Read about their time in Melbourne at luzinterruptus.com
September 12, 1940: The Lascaux cave paintings are discovered.
The discoverers of the celebrated Paleolithic cave paintings were four teenagers, who had stumbled upon the site while searching for their lost dog. Located in southwestern France, the Lascaux cave system was first studied by and introduced to the public by archaeologist-priest Henri Breuil. It was opened to the public in 1948, but it closed once more in 1963 in order to help preserve the paintings.
Nearly 2,000 illustrations, of animals (stags, bison, cattle), humans, and other, more abstract designs, can be found in the Lascaux caves; these illustrations are some of the oldest examples of any sort of high-quality, complex art, estimated to be anywhere from 13,000 to 25,000 years old. These paintings are divided into several sections, including a “Great Hall of the Bulls”, which contains some of the cave’s most famous pieces - black aurochs, one of them measuring over seventeen feet across. Other sections include a “Chamber of Felines”, and “the Shaft of the Dead Man”. The purpose of these paintings remains obscure - perhaps the caves were regarded as sacred places, where special rites were performed, or maybe our prehistoric ancestors really, really liked painting animals.
(via geologise)
Rising in the dark hours before dawn, wandering Venus now shines as the brilliant morning star.
Its close conjunction with the Moon on August 13 was appreciated around planet Earth. But skygazers in eastern Asia were also treated to a lunar occultation, the waning crescent Moon passing directly in front of the bright planet in still dark skies.
This composite image constructed from frames made at 10 minute intervals follows the celestial performance from above the city lights and clouds over Taebaek, Korea. The occultation begins near the horizon and progresses as the pair rises. Venus first disappears behind the Moon’s sunlit crescent, emerging before dawn from the dark lunar limb.
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