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supersonicelectronic:

Henry Lewis & Lango Olievera - Neon Knights

These two phenomenal artists currently have a show up at 111 Minna Gallery in San Francisco. I very much suggest you check it out if you get a chance, it’s up until March 31st.

Neither of the two guys realize (how would they?) but they’re both the reason I started this blog. I was visiting San Francisco several years back and my buddy wanted to get tattooed at Skull & Sword. Lango tattooed him and as I sat there looking at the art on the walls (like paintings by Shawn Barber) listening to Henry Lewis tell stories and watching Grime in the front room from afar I felt a very strong need to share art with everyone possible. So when I returned from SF to Mississippi I went about making Supersonic Electronic a full time art blog. So thanks Lango and Henry, ya’lls kindness at Skull & Sword that day was really meaningful to me.

metalonmetalblog:

Valente Celle Tomb, 1893, The Staglieno Cemetery, Genoa - Italy

Sculptor: Giulio Monteverde (Bistagno, Alessandria, 1837 - Roma 1917)

The funeral monument called “Eternal Drama” represents a real Dans macabre, the futile attempt of life to escape the inevitable embrace of death. The sculptor Giulio Monteverde underlines, in this sculpture, the contrast between the sensuality of the beautiful young woman who personifies Life (caught in the moment in which , wearied by the vain struggle, she is about to surrender herself to the terrible spectre who has chosen her as his prey) and the rigid impassiveness of Death which seizes her. http://grabschonheiten.diary.ru/p81440998.htm?oam

ornamentedbeing:

1) Isaac Newton is credited with the development of the first color wheel in 1666. The color wheel pictured below, circulated in Europe in the late 17th century by an author known as C.B., is based on Newton’s beliefs about color.

2) In the late 18th century, Moses Harris elaborated on the Newtonian color wheel by charting not only pure colors, but the various shades of those colors as well. If we consider the Newtonian wheel to be a one-dimensional representation of color, then Harris’s wheel introduces a second dimension.

3) A breakthrough occurred in 1810 when Philipp Runge portrayed color not as a one-dimensional or two-dimensional color wheel, but as a three-dimensional sphere.