The Westbury Horse, 1939 by Eric Ravilious

Ōyō Sketchbook (Ōyō manga) : [volume 2]

Ogino Issui 荻野一水 (Japanese, active 1900-10)

Publisher, Kyoto : Yamada Unsōdō 山田芸艸堂

1903

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Purchase, Mary and James G. Wallach Foundation Gift, 2013

Japanese carrier bags  - a modern take. Gofukusayan.

Via thekimonogallery

Gloomy Sunday

Latest addition to Memo Akten’s ongoing ‘Learning to See’ project demonstrates a neural network powered realtime image translation framework, presenting possibilites for visual poetry:

A pre-trained deep neural network making predictions on live camera input, trying to make sense of what it sees, in context of what it’s seen before. It can see only what it already knows, just like us. 

Mold (Muffa), Alberto Burri, 1946, Art Institute of Chicago: Contemporary Art

Alberto Burri began his career as an artist after returning to Italy in 1946 from Texas, where he had been held in a prisoner-of-war camp. Attracted to unconventional, humble materials—such as tar, sand, and enamel— and processes like collage, Burri made work that is related to the European Informel movement and the Art Brut of Jean Dubuffet and is seen as a precursor to Arte Povera. Using a restricted palette of red and black, Burri established a simplicity and directness in his abstract work. Mold, a mixed-media painting, is from a series in which he explored the use of pumice stone. Here the visceral impact of this gritty, highly porous substance exemplifies Burri’s pursuit of material reality without recourse to realism. Gift of Studs Terkel in memory of Ida Terkel Size: 72.1 x 80 cm (28 3/8 x 31 ½ in.), without frame Medium: Oil, synthetic polymer, pumice, and metallic paint on canvas