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Michel Gondry / Miniature Calendar du photographe japonais Tatsuya Tanaka
la tte entre ses mains
Ernst Scheidegger - Alberto Giacometti's hands modelling, Paris ca. 1960
la rentre approchait
Jonna Pohjalainen (Finnish, b.1962) Colour Pencils, 2006 Open Air Art Museum, Pedvale, Talsi
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Trans gecko and Nonbinary gecko plushies, both handmade by me
I made these both in July for pride month but they're still delightful to pose and place in different spots in my home.
Both are made from entirely thrifted supplies and fabric, stuffed with polyfill and plastic beans, with a pipe cleaner skeleton to facilitate poses.
I'll share the plush patterns another day
The theme for is . I haven't ventured far from home today so I chose a small bust of . This wee fellow lives on my mantelpiece.Stage de sculpture "intrieure" (thrapeutique et spirituelle) : Dployer sa fcondit (3 jours) argile
18 mai 2027, 09:30:00 UTC+02:00 - GMT+02:00 - Monastre Orthodoxe Saint-Michel du Var, Flayosc, Var, FranceStage de sculpture "intrieure" (thrapeutique et spirituelle) : Approcher le Oui essentiel (4 jours) Argile et pierre
10 aot 2027, 09:30:00 UTC+02:00 - GMT+02:00 - 5000 Le Plan Deffends, 83630, Moissac-Bellevue, FranceBy African-American artist Sargent Claude Johnson (1888-1967), Chester, 1930, painted terracotta, (Don Ross / Estate of Sargent Claude Johnson).
From the art critic Christopher Knight, the Los Angeles Times, March 1, 2024: Sargents father, a white man of Swedish descent, died when the boy was not yet 10. His Black and Indigenous mother succumbed from tuberculosis just a few years later
The first wave of the Great Migration that saw millions of Black Americans leave the rural South for the increasingly urban North and West was instrumental in creating the Harlem Renaissance. Given the name, we usually think of it as a New York phenomenon, but Johnson lived and worked in the Bay Area throughout his creative life. (He arrived in 1915 and died nearly penniless in 1967.)
'Bear With Me' Bristol was created by an anonymous artist in 2020 to mark World Suicide Prevention Day.
Le tumulus de Newgrange, une structure prhistorique plus ancienne que Stonehenge
Mary Heilmann obituary
By Charles Darwent
Visitors to Mary Heilmanns show at the Whitechapel Gallery in 2016 were offered the novel experience of looking at art while scooting about on wheeled wooden chairs. These, too, turned out to be artworks. One, Sunny Chair for the Whitechapel, had been made by Heilmann for the occasion. Rough-hewn from plywood, backed in nylon webbing and painted bright yellow, it seemed happily untidy as an object, but also as a type. This was true of all the works in Looking at Pictures, and was intentional.
Sift Through Grace Baldwin's Giant Junk Drawer Filled with Nostalgia
Spomenik Revoluciji or Monument to the Revolution Mrakovica, Kozara National Park Bosnia and HerzegovinaThis statue on the top of the former Glasgow Savings Bank at Parkhead Cross is one of the city's more unusual architectural sculptures as it shows a man strangling a wolf with his bare hands (and yes, you read that right!).
Created in 1908 by Archibald Macfarlane Shannan, it's titled Prudence Strangling Poverty, with the male figure representing Prudence and the wolf representing Want.
Salut
Un autre petit coeur mais pas de chandelle cette fois. Un coeur qui ne sert absolument rien. Juste parce que j'aime a et que les visiteurs des sympos aussi.
J'ai l'air productive mais tous ces projets taient dj commencs. Dissipe
Entirement fait de clous tourns.
Bonne journe !
Today's photo: the Shuttle, Nelson, Lancashire.
Toronto makes me notice how public art changes when people stop treating it as art.
Someone sits beside it. Kids climb around it. Cyclists pass without looking.
Maybe that ordinary use gives sculpture another life.
Yarn
When the Roman emperor Tiberius turned a cave on the coast between Rome and Naples, into a private dining hall, the Odyssey was already about 700 years old. At the deepest point of the cave Tiberius placed a massive marble sculpture that showed the moment when Odysseus blinds the Cyclops, Polyphemus, a one-eyed man-eating giant.
In 26 AD, while Tiberius was dining there, rocks fell from the roof of the grotto, crushing several of his attendants and nearly killing the emperor. In that collapse, the great marble figures were smashed, and there they lay, at the bottom of the cave, until 1957, when workers building a coastal road cut into the ground and found them.
Slowly, piece by piece, the scene was meticulously put back together, and the sculptures now reside at the Sperlonga Archaeological Museum.
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Damien Hoar de Galvan Puzzles Scraps of Reclaimed Wood for a Daily Sculpture Project
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Expo "Mirage" de Jaume Plensa au Carr Sainte-Anne
Un autre petit coeur prendre pour mes venir.
C'est un .
J'ai cette vieille plaque en acier avec des gros trous que j'avais trouv la cour scrap a ne se plie pas.
100% rebut sauf les 5 bearing.
Bonne journe !
Part of James Sellars' 1870s Classical style facade of St Andrew's Halls on Granville Street in Glasgow, featuring sculptures by John and William Mossman. After the building was destroyed by a fire in 1962, this facade was saved and incorporated into and extension to the nearby the Mitchell Library.
A large friend at Marquee in , a spot in the RAD with the work of many local artists. Had not seen them before.
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Bethnal Green Tube Shelter Disaster - Stairway to Heaven Memorial Trust
Civilian WW2 disaster of 3 March 1943
Hephaestus
Authors Note: This post has mentions of (g)rape. If this is triggering, please go on to 1 of our other posts.
Hes the Greek god of artisans, blacksmiths, carpenters, craftsmen, fire, metallurgy, metalworking, sculpture, & volcanoes.
In Greek mythology, Hephaestus was the son of Hera, either on her own or her husband/brother, Zeus. He was cast off Mount Olympus by his mom, Hera, because of his lameness, the result of a congenital impairment. Or, in another account, by Zeus for protecting Hera from his advances.
As a smithing god, Hephaestus created all the weapons of the gods on Olympus. He served as the blacksmith of the gods & was worshipped in the manufacturing & industrial centers of Greece, particularly Athens. The cult of Hephaestus was based in Lemnos. Hephaestus symbols are a smiths hammer, anvil, & a pair of tongs. In Rome, he was equated with Vulcan.
In Hesiods Theogony, Hera gives birth to Hephaestus on her own, out of revenge for Zeus having, without her, fathered Athena (the daughter of Zeus & Metis). Apollodorus similarly states that Hera gives birth to Hephaestus alone. Though according to Homer, Hephaestus is 1 of the kids of Zeus & Hera.
Some sources state that the origin myth of Hephaestus was that of a daemon of fire coming up from the Earth, that he was also associated with gas which takes fire & burns & is considered by many people to be divine & that only later was a volcano considered Hephaestus smithy.
He was associated by Greek colonists in southern Italy with the volcano gods Adranus (of Mount Etna) & Vulcanus of the Lipari islands.
The 1st-century sage, Apollonius of Tyana, is said to have observed, there are many other mountains all over the earth that are on fire, & yet we should never be done with it if we assigned to them giants & gods like Hephaestus. Nevertheless, Hephaestus domain over fire goes back to Homers Iliad, where he uses flames to dry the waters of the Scamander River in order to force its eponymous deity, who was attacking Achilles, to retreat.
His favorite place in our mere mortal world was the island of Lemnos. He liked to live among the Sintians. But he also repeatedly went to other volcanic islands like Lipari, Imbros, & Sicily, which were called his abodes/workshops. In 1 version of events, Hera rejects, then ejects Hephaestus from Olympus/the heavens because of his congenital impairment. (Its implied that his congenital disability is because of Zeus & Heras familial relationship, i.e. brother & sister.)
Because of Heras actions, he fell into the ocean & of Heras actions, he fell into the ocean & was raised by Thetis (Achilles mom & 1 of the 50 Nereids) & Eurynome, the Oceanid. In another version, Hephaestus, attempting to rescue his mom from Zeus advances, was cast down to earth by Zeus, not Hera!
He (Hephaestus) was cast down for 1 whole day & landed on the island of Lemnos. On Lemnos, he was cared for & taught to be a master craftsman by the Sintians. Later writers describe his physical disability as a result of his 2nd fall. While Homer makes him disabled from birth.
Hephaestus was 1 of the Olympians who came back to Olympus after being exiled. In an archaic story, Hephaestus wanted revenge against Hera for rejecting him by forging her a magical golden throne, which, when she sat on it, didnt let her stand up again.
The other gods begged Hephaestus to return to Olympus to let her go. But he refused, saying, Ive no mom. It was Ares who undertook the task of fetching Hephaestus at 1st. But he was threatened by the fire god with torches. At last, Dionysus (the wine god) fetched him, got him drunk on wine, & took the subdued smith back to Olympus on the back of a mule, accompanied by revelers.
According to Hyginus, Zeus promised anything to Hephaestus to free Hera. Hephaestus asked for Athenas hand in marriage (urged by Poseidon, who was hostile toward Athena), leading to his attempted (g)raping of the goddess, who rejected his advances.
In another version, he demanded to be married to Aphrodite to release Hera, & his mom fulfilled the request. Hephaestus had his own palace on Olympus, containing his workshop with an anvil(s) & 20 bellows that worked at his bidding.
He crafted much of the magnificent equipment of the gods, & almost any finely wrought metalwork imbued with powers that appears in Greek myth is said to have been forged by Hephaestus. He designed all the thrones in the Olympian palace, the Aegis breastplate, Hermes (not the fashion house) winged helmet & sandals, Aphrodites famous girdle, Eros bow & arrows, Helios chariot, Heracles bronze clappers, & the shoulder of Pelops.
Hephaestus also created the gift that the gods gave to mankind: the 1st woman, Pandora, & her pithos (a large jar)/box. In some versions, Prometheus stole the fire that he gave to man from Hephaestus forge. Hephaestus gave to the blinded Orion his apprentice Cedalion as a guide. In later accounts, Hephaestus worked with the Cyclopes Brontes, Steropes, & Arges, who were highly skilled blacksmiths in their own right & forged Zeus thunderbolts, Poseidons trident, & Hades helmet of darkness/invisibility.
According to Homer, Hephaestus built automatons of metal to work for him or others. This includes tripods with golden wheels, able to move at his wish in & out of the assembly hall of the celestials & handmaidens wrought of gold in the semblance of living maids, who had understanding in their hearts, & speech & strength, as a gift of the gods.
They moved to support Hephaestus while walking. Hephaestus also put golden & silver lions & dogs at the entrance of the palace of Alkinoos in such a way that they could bite the invaders. These guard dogs didnt age or perish. (So does this mean that they could possibly still be around, hidden somewhere Like the Nag Hammadi library.)
A similar golden dog was set by Rhea to guard the infant Zeus & his nurse (the goat Amaltheia) on the island of Krete/Crete. Later, Tantalus was said to have stolen the automaton when it guarded Zeus temple, or to have persuaded Pandareos to steal it for him.
Later texts attempt to replace the automaton with the idea that the golden dog was actually Rhea, transformed by Hephaestus. Hephaestus fought against the giants & killed Mimas by throwing molten iron at him. He also fought another giant, Aristaeus, but he fled.
During the battle, Hephaestus fell down exhausted & was picked up by Helios in his chariot. As a gift of gratitude, Hephaestus forged 4 ever-flowing fountains & fire-breathing bulls for Helios son Aeetus. At the marriage of Peleus & Thetis, Hephaestus gave a knife as a wedding present.
When the Trojan War began, Hephaestus sided with the Greeks & forged the armor of Achilles, the cuirass of Diomedes, & Agamemnons staff of office. But Hephaestus was also worshipped by the Trojans & saved 1 of their men from being killed by Diomedes.
Though she was married to Hephaestus, Aphrodite had an affair with Ares, the god of war. Eventually, Hephaestus discovered Aphrodites affair through Helios, the all-seeing sun (Were gonna circle back to this. Keep this in mind.), & planned a trap during 1 of their trysts.
While the lovers lay together in bed, Hephaestus ensnared them in an unbreakable chain-link net so small as to be invisible & dragged them to Mount Olympus to shame them in front of the other gods for retribution. The gods had a good laugh at the sight of these unclothed adulterers. Poseidon persuaded Hephaestus to free them in return for a guarantee that Ares would pay the adulterers fine, or Poseidon would pay it himself.
In The Odyssey, Hephaestus says he would give Aphrodite back to Zeus & demand back his bride price. Some versions of the myth state that Zeus didnt return the dowry. In fact, Aphrodite simply charmed her way back again into her husbands good graces.
In The Iliad, Hephaestus is described as being married to the Grace named Charis during the events depicted in the Trojan War. While in Theogeny, hes married to the Grace named Aglaea, with no indication of having ever been married to Aphrodite.
In Dionysiaca by Nonnus explicitly stated that, though Hephaestus & Aphrodite were once married (shes referred to as his ancient wife). Theyve since separated & Hephaestus is now married to Charis.
Heres the keep-in-mind part: In a later detail, Ares put the young soldier, Alectryon, by their door to warn them of Helios arrival, as he suspected that Helios would tell Hephaestus of Aphrodites infidelity if the 2 were discovered. But Alectryon fell asleep on guard duty. Helios finds the 2 & alerts Hephaestus. Ares, in a rage, turned Alectryon into a rooster, which always crows at dawn when the sun is about to rise.
The Thebans said that the spicy time union of Ares & Aphrodite produced Harmonia. But that of the union of Hephaestus with Aphrodite, theres usually no issue. Because Harmonia was conceived during Aphrodites marriage to Hephaestus, for revenge, on Harmonias wedding day to Cadmus, Hephaestus gifted her with a finely worked but cursed necklace that brought immense suffering to her descendants, culminating in Oedipus. (Check out our post on Oedipus.)
An Athenian founding myth tells the citys patron goddess, Athena, refused a union (spicy time) with Hephaestus. Pseudo-Apollodorus records an archaic legend, which claims that Hephaestus once tried to (g)rape Athena. But she pushed him away, causing him to ejaculate on her thigh.
Athena wiped the happy time juice off using a tuft of wool. She tossed it into the dust. This impregnated Gaia (his own great-grandma). This caused her to give birth to King Erichthonius, whom Athena adopted as her own kid.
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