Robert Lyn Nelson, 1955 | Magic realism painter

Robert Lyn Nelson is an American artist known for his paintings of marine wildlife, particularly those in his "Two Worlds" style, which simultaneously shows life above and below the surface of the sea.

Artistic career

Nelson moved to Hawaii when he was eighteen years old.

According to Nelson, the turning point in his life and his career occurred when he encountered a group of whales while surfing off Lahaina, Hawaii.

"In learning to ride the waves, I also learned to respect the ocean...to feel its pulse with all five of my senses, and to feel its spirit at an extra-sensory level. It was a blend of magic and realism that I wanted to communicate in my paintings", says Nelson.

Happy birthday Berthe Morisot!

Berthe Morisot was an essential figure in the Impressionist movement (a small group of inventive creators who organized independent exhibitions in protest against established art institutions in Paris).

Morisot’s paintings are visual poems.

Staying true to the tenets of impressionism, at first glance, you immediately notice her loose brushstrokes and colors that reflect the hues of nature.

Then, you realize later the absorbing quality of her work. Her paintings are hard to stop thinking about when you leave them.

Why?

Because Morisot had an understanding of women and their experiences that was uncommon for an artist at the time.

She painted women existing in their everyday lives in a way that was not present in the work of her male counterparts.

Rather than simply looking at these women, in Morisot’s work, you take time to think about what it’s like to be them and in their world. | National Gallery of Art

La Legge di Murphy: "I computer sono inaffidabili, ma gli uomini ancora di più!"

Dalla Murfologia Applicata alla Progettazione | Capitolo 3

Legge di Osborn

• Le variabili non mutano mai, le costanti sì.

Prima legge delle modifiche
Meglio conosciuta col nome di Legge dell'Adesso me lo dicono!

• Qualsiasi informazione che comporti un cambiamento nel progetto sarà trasmessa al progettista dopo - e soltanto dopo - che tutti i disegni sono stati completati

Corollario

• In casi semplici, che presentino una soluzione ovviamente giusta e una ovviamente sbagliata, è spesso più saggio scegliere quella sbagliata, in modo da aver già pronta la conseguente modifica.

Paweł Kuczyński, 1976

Gabriele Münter | Expressionist painter

Gabriele Münter (19 February 1877 – 19 May 1962) was a German expressionist painter who was at the forefront of the Munich avant-garde in the early 20th century.

She studied and lived with the painter Wassily Kandinsky and was a founding member of the expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter.

Early life

Münter was born to upper middle-class parents in Berlin on 19 February 1877.

Her family supported her desires to become an artist. Her father died in 1886. She began to draw as a child.

As she was growing up, she had a private tutor. In 1897, at the age of twenty, Münter received artistic training in the Düsseldorf studio of artist Ernst Bosch and later at the Damenschule (Women's School) with artist Willy Spatz.

By the time she was 21 years old, both of her parents had died and she was living at home with no occupation.

In 1898, she decided to take a trip to America with her sister to visit extended family. They stayed in America for more than two years, mainly in the states of Texas, Arkansas, and Missouri; six sketchbooks survive from Münter's period in America, depicting images of people, plants and landscapes.

Loie Fuller | Modern Dance Pioneer

Loie Fuller, original name Marie Louise Fuller, (born Jan. 15, 1862, Fullersburg [now part of Hinsdale], Ill., U.S.- died Jan. 1, 1928, Paris, France), American dancer who achieved international distinction for her innovations in theatrical lighting, as well as for her invention of the "Serpentine Dance", a striking variation on the popular "skirt dances" of the day.

Fuller made her stage debut in Chicago at the age of four, and over the next quarter century she toured with stock companies, burlesque shows, vaudeville, and Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, gave temperance lectures and Shakespearean readings, and appeared in a variety of plays in Chicago and New York City.

Sculpture of modern dance pioneer Loie Fuller at Brookgreen Gardens SC

Laura Alma-Tadema | Genre painter

Laura Theresa Alma-Tadema -née Epps (1852-1909) was an English painter specialising in domestic and genre scenes of women and children.

Eighteen of her paintings were exhibited at the Royal Academy. Her husband, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, was also a painter.

Life

A daughter of Dr. George Napoleon Epps (who was brother of Dr. John Epps), Lady Alma-Tadema had two sisters who were also painters (Emily studied under John Brett, a Pre-Raphaelite, and Ellen under Ford Madox Brown), while Edmund Gosse and a stockbroker called Rowland Hill were her brothers-in-law.

La Legge di Murphy: "Il mal di denti tende a cominciare di venerdì sera..!"

Della Murfologia Applicata | Capitolo 2

Legge di Booker:

• Un grammo di applicazione val più di una tonnellata di astrazione.

Leggi di Klipstein
Applicate alla tecnica in generale:

• Ogni brevetto sarà preceduto di una settimana da un brevetto simile presentato da un indipendente.

• La puntualità nei tempi di consegna è direttamente proporzionale al tempo a disposizione.

• Le dimensioni saranno sempre indicate nei termini meno comuni.

• La velocità, per esempio, sarà indicata in furgoni alla settimana.

• Ogni filo metallico tagliato su misura sarà troppo corto.

Lucas Zimmermann | Traffic Lights

Gabriele D'Annunzio | Voglio un amore doloroso / I want a slow painful love

Voglio un amore doloroso, lento,

che lento sia come una lenta morte,

e senza fine (voglio che più forte

sie della morte) e senza mutamento.

Voglio che senza tregua in un tormento

occulto sien le nostre anime assorte;

e un mare sia presso a le nostre porte,

solo, che pianga in un silenzio intento.

Francesca Strino | Iside e Osiride Resurrezione