One of those painters that teach you what pure abstract painting is by simply walking past their work in a museum. This image is from his “Cold Mountain” series.
Walking past his paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago when you’re mired in a bullshit theory class or coming from a semantics argument in a critique, his work would push that all out and start you fresh visually and, quite honestly, physiologically when in their space.
Around the time of Apollo, I was listening to a lot of film soundtracks. What I liked was that they represented a form of incomplete music, where the missing element was the visual element. I liked making music that somehow allowed the listener to imagine a visual element themselves.
-Brian Eno on his 1983 studio album “Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks”
Michelangelo’s Moses is a marble sculpture made in 1513–15. One of the many details of this masterpiece is one very small muscle in the forearms that contracts only when lifting the pinky, otherwise it is invisible. Moses is lifting the pinky, therefore that tiny muscle is contracted
The Swedish warship Vasa. It sank in 1628 less than a mile into its maiden voyage and was recovered from the sea floor after 333 years almost completely intact. Now housed at the Vasa Museum in Stockholm, is the world’s best preserved 17th century ship
