Friday, November 25, 2016
Thursday, November 24, 2016
Wilhelm Laage (1868-1930) ...Final, woodcut 1899
The woodcut with its dark masses, with its "face" striving out of chaos to the light, simple, simple and yet immensely strong in the language, I needed, and jubilantly I clung to him as he said to me: "Take Me, I will help you to express what is raging and roaring within you. " Like a demon, he always stood before me and drove me to restless work. Soon I realized its value for my art. WL 1917
Wednesday, November 23, 2016
Born today... Jose Clemente Orozco, 23 November 1883, Ciudad Guzmán, Mexico
image: detail from mural, Gods Of The Modern World - The Epic Of American Civilization, 1932-1934 Hanover, United States
Born today...John Wallis, November 23, 1616, Ashford, United Kingdom. Mathematician and cryptographer who introduce the infinity symbol in 1655 in his De sectionibus conicis. image: Pamela Colman Smith (1878 – 1951) illustration from the Waite Tarot
Labels:
1600s,
birthdays,
infinity symbol,
John Wallis,
Maths,
Pamela Coleman Smith,
Tarot,
tarot cards
Monday, November 21, 2016
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