the realm of appearances
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yamamanamaThe train journey was almost tolerable and, on the way back, we did stop for five minutes or so to wait for a train to pass (which does make me wonder why it's set up that way in the first place) but that wasn’t really the fault of the slow zones (which are supposedly almost a mile and a half but really felt more like normal-ish speeds until we got to the shopping center) at all.
Alyssa does filmmaking and media and has necklaces and clothing with tiny flowers. There was a man with a tattoo of a woman holding her finger to her lips with the Roman numerals of a clock. Tyler has nautical-themed tattoos including a compass and a spyglass lens and a siren doing a dance, her hair turning to wind and waves. Ellen also had interesting jewelry. A diamond-shaped pendant made from tiny beads, an ornate metal bracelet.
Chelsea is from New York and has a pendant made from an old tile with a spiral design on it and her roommate is an artist.
A few new acquisitions at the MFA.
Diana de Rosa - Saint Cecilia with an Angel
She was a successful artist back in 17th century Naples who studied under Massimo Stanzione and associated with Artemisia Gentileschi, and now she's just forgotten.
Ram Das - A Crimson Horned Pheasant from the Impey Album
Lotte Laserstein - Self-Portrait
She was forced out of Germany by the Nazis and deemed degenerate because she had three Jewish grandparents. She was offered an exhibition in Sweden and stayed there. Alas, she couldn't get her family members safe passage.
Tang dynasty silver bowl.
August Delaherche - Miniature Vases (surrounding)
August Delaherche - Vase (center)
The miniatures are meant to be experiments that required less materials and time to create.
Unidentified Japanese artist - One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets.
These are meant to show off one’s ability, not to be actually read.
Claire Falkenstein - Model for New Gates of Paradise, Guggenheim Foundation
The real thing is in Venice and is made of iron rods instead of copper wire.
Katarina Burin - Hotel Nord-Sud model
Not for a real building.
Finial, 14th to 15th century Germany (top)
Lock and hasp for a chest, possibly France, 15th to 16th century. (bottom)
Both of these are designed to mimic architectural elements.
Greyhound Scenicruiser bus model.
A promotional piece.
Speed of the Wind wind-tunnel model
I guess this is used to test aerodynamics for the actual vehicle.
Yagi Akira - Nesting Covered Boxes
It’s like a minimalist matryoshka doll. They fit perfectly inside each other.
Rooster, Qing era, made for export. (white)
Chris Templeman - “Make and Take” Rooster (red)
The red rooster was made with a 3D printer. He dispensed 2017 of them on the Greenway for the year 2017.
Eben Haines - Shelter in Place Gallery
This was on display earlier.
Home Comfort salesman sample range
The idea behind this is to show off a product without having to drag around the way too unwieldy and heavy real things.
Miniature plate, England, 19th century.
Augustus Eliaers - Patent model for library step-chair.
Eliaers designed chairs for people unable to walk. This design was meant to convert into a stepstool so that its users could reach the books on the top shelf.
Liliana Porter - Untitled With Fallen Chairs
Miniature of “Louis 20” chair and crate. Yep, they even came with their own mini packing crate.
Isamu Noguchi - Miniature coffee table
Richard Pettibone - Andy Warhol, Tomato. Richard Pettibone built his career on miniaturized works by other artists.
Ron Ho - TV Guide
Objects from Chinese heritage (fruits, red candles, incense sticks) in an American domestic scene. It’s meant to be worn.
Miniature stove, Germany, 16th century. They’re not sure what this was meant to be.
Miniature commode from the workshop of Peter Carl Fabergé. Possibly meant to hold cigarettes.
Arnoldus van Geffen - Dining room with silver miniatures
The Dutch were well known for miniature houses.
Model for a garden pavilion, 18th century Germany.
Miniature magnifying glass. Too small to be actually useful.
Girdle book calendar, 14th century Spain or France.
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot - sketch to show how six paintings should be hung
landscape, with large tree on left, two figures at right, one holding long pole
landscape, with grove of trees at left, two men with long poles at right
Which one is which is an exercise left to the reader.
Léon Victor Dupré - Water Meadows and Cattle
Jean François Millet - Trees along a rocky stream bed
Trees beside a pool.
Top and bottom respectively if you can’t tell. I can’t.
These are typically meant to be preliminary drawings.
Rembrandt van Rijn - Canal with a large boat and bridge
Rodolphe Bresdin - Mountain Landscape with Army in a Rocky Gorge
Willem de Heusch - Eight miniature landscapes
de Heusch traveled to Italy in the 1640s where he took inspiration from the landscapes and from Italian artists who’d paint in a hazy style.
Workshop of Peter Carl Fabergé - Spray of lilies of the valley
Katsushika Hokusai - Bonsai Grower
Ring, designed by Jesús Raphael Soto, an artist more known for giant kinetic sculptures.
Bicycle brooch
The wheels actually spin and pivot. It was meant as a political statement of sorts: bicycles offer new opportunities to move around independently.
Openwork basket, France
Pair of Roosters - France
While making miniatures requires less materials, it still requires skill and talent.
Miniature eyeglass case with eyeglasses
Cup and saucer with micromosaic decoration, Germany.
Brooch, box, and box. All Italian. All micromosaics.
Pablo Picasso - Les Plastrons
Picasso rejected the fine detailing and instead went for a smudged and hazy ethereal look. Some people do that and get called assholes, this never happened to Pablo Picasso.
John la Farge - Study for Skylight, Sketches for Decoration, Study for Skylight
Albrecht Altdorfer - The Viol Player
A viol is the ancestor of the violin and viola, but with frets. They’ve been supplanted for the most part but if you want to hear four of them in action, listen to The Promised Womb by Dead Can Dance.
Below it is not the World’s Tiniest Viol but a watch in the shape of a lute from fin de 18th siecle France.
Jean-François Millet - Girl daydreaming
Édouard Brandon - Juif Lisant
Duck decoy, possibly a male wood duck. Very obviously male, though. It’s not really a decoy, though since it’s only 1/6th the size of the real thing. It’s mostly just there to be put on display.
whoops.
David Teniers the Younger - Parma the Physician
A replica of Titian’s painting by the same name.
Rembrant van Rijn - The Goldsmith
Jacques Callot - A Festival in the Piazza della Signoria, Florence
Albrecht Altdorfer - Head of a Young Man
Hans Sebald Beham - St. Peter, St. Andrew, and St. John and their copper engraving plates. St. Peter is holding keys, St. Andrew is holding his cross, and St. John is holding a chalice.
Workshop of Peter Carl Fabergé, The Balletta Bulldog
Commissioned by the Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich for his mistress, the ballerina Elizabeth Balletta. He also built a new wing in his St. Petersburg palace for her. Then they blamed him for Russia’s losses in the Russo-Japanese war and he was forced to retire from the military. He died from pneumonia in Paris.
So fun fact: the country of Montenegro declared war on Japan in solidarity with Russia and then stopped existing in 1919, was nominally independent as a Nazi client state briefly in the 1940s and then stopped existing once again until 2006. One of their first acts was a peace treaty with Japan.
Scaraboid of a hedgehog. Associated with rebirth in late period Egypt. And it’s blue.
Okatomo of Kyoto - Hare and Mushroom
Gyokuzan - Monkey Seated, Holding A Large Cluster of Biwa Fruits
Netsuke are counterweights for containers hung from a kimono’s belt or sash.
Miniature Tintype Albums
Prayer bead with depictions of St. James and St. George. Believed to be part of the True Cross.
Albrecht Dürer - The Crucifixion
Miniature Hanukkah lamp
Sabbath candlesticks
Bastet amulet inscribed for Pamay, Third Intermediate Period, Dynasty 24.
Probably used by a living owner and then buried with them when they die. Bastet was a cat goddess associated with pregnancy, childbirth, motherhood, the pharaoh, and the sun.
Rowland Parry - Mourning pendant brooch. These are meant to carry locks of hair of the deceased.
Memorial ring
“ich zahle die Stun den des Weider sehens” means “I count the hours until we meet.”
Brooch
Victorian culture put a lot of emphasis on mementoes of dead loved ones. In the bezel sits a braid of hair.
Bracelet
Contains four sets of hair.
Box, northern Europe. Depicts St. Margaret kneeling with a dragon and on the other side, St. Catherine with a spiked wheel and sword. It might be a protective talisman during childbirth.
Triptych pendant depicting martyrdom of St. Barbara, Mary of Magdala, and St. Gereon
St. Barbara is the patron saint of artillery.
Emly Shrine (reliquary casket)
Hans Sebald Beham - Madonna and Child with a Parrot
Unknown 14th century Bohemian artist - Madonna and Child
Robert W. Ebendorf - Traveling communion service
A cup for wine, dish, and container for church wafers.
The rest of the paintings are all by Matthew Wong, who took his life at the age of 35. He was born in Toronto, grew up in Hong Kong and Toronto, and went to college in Ann Arbor.
Children of a Primordial Land
River at Dusk
In several paintings, Wong would scrape away the still wet paint revealing the layer beneath
Untitled, ink on Asian paper
Wong would bring with him a sketchbook, a bottle of ink, and then make a random mess of things. He taught himself ink painting.
Untitled
Banishment from the Garden
Unusually for Wong, this painting depicts faces. Usually, they’re turned away.
Untitled
Landscape of the Longing
A Poet’s World / 一個詩人的世界
which you can see written in the top-left.
Where Did the Time Go?
Untitled
Untitled
Ugh, I might have to ninja edit once I find the name of this painting because Google prides itself on being useless.
Wong stumbled upon books on Chinese ink painting at the Hong Kong Central Library.
Gone Till November - depicts Bauhinia, the emblem of Hong Kong.
Heaven and Earth
Contemplating the Iceberg
Solitaire - depicts Los Angeles from Mulholland Drive
River at Night
Day 4
Once Upon A Time in the West - Wong was a film buff.
The Realm of Appearances - based on a composition by his friend Scott Kahn
Landscape With Mother and Child
Youth
White Wave, Black Sand
The West
Distance
The Wish
Somewhere
The Kingdom - inspired by the birch forests painted by Gustav Klimt. In the distance, a crowned figure sits on an altar. The name Wong means king in Chinese.
Old Town
New Moon (after John Beerman)
A Walk By The Sea
A Walk By The Sea
Path to the Sea
Unknown Pleasures
Blue Night
Morning Mist
though my camera overcompensated with the pale green tint of the image.
See You On The Other Side
Landscape with Ella - depicting John Cheim’s dog sitting by the pool
Tracks in the Blue Forest
Blue Rain - while isolated, the light from the lamps and the moon provide comfort and sanctuary.
It's big enough. I'll post the Hokusai stuff in another entry.
You could write a poem. Here are three of them.
Nan Peyi’m solèy leve chak jou cìankou m be nan Paradi, bel Flè Pouse nan chak sezon Haiti
Haiti cheri mwen Pa Gen dwa bliyew mim si wapban’m dyiaman, Haiti
Haiti, Haiti, onjou wap retoumen. Jan’w te ye avan. I love you Haiti
<3 <3 <3
grounding
in empty space that was not
green flew like fire
i became what i came from and where
i will be, will be
because water was me
exalting and constant
and i found my inky
sound, sing
the notes by which i
am and spin
kismet 7/14
kismet means fate. It comes from a Turkish word borrowed from Arabic. I just played through the Auroran campaign of EV Nova so all I can think of is the planet.
To you I ??? as if I’m lost
Dear landscape ???
save me from the f??? that ???? words
where a hazy silhoutte saved me
landscape do mimic their warmth
so that if if ??? do, i would be saved
valentina ???, 2023
Fiona was reading The Dispossessed and so I brought up Always Coming Home and my plans to read it before summers’ end although I have a pile with eight other books to read and only so much time and has tattoos of art by Hilma af Klint, a fin de siecle Swedish artist who, along with Kandinsky, Malevich, and Mondrian, created some of the first abstract works in western art. On one arm, fantastic astronomical diagrams and sigils, on the other, vines and flora. She makes stickers with raccoons.
She kind of reminds me of primrose but i don’t know my Asian diaspora in Wisconsin very well. Sometimes it’s easy to find that stuff, like MA’s Hispanic-Latin population, sometimes it isn’t.
Magdalena has short green hair much like a Lemming and a spiked choker and stars stickered on their face and star earrings.
Hokusai later because I took a lot lot lot of pictures.
burning question: does the LGB in LGB Alliance stand for liberals, gendercriticals, and bigots? because nothing they have ever done, at any juncture in time, helped gays, lesbians, and bisexuals
Alyssa does filmmaking and media and has necklaces and clothing with tiny flowers. There was a man with a tattoo of a woman holding her finger to her lips with the Roman numerals of a clock. Tyler has nautical-themed tattoos including a compass and a spyglass lens and a siren doing a dance, her hair turning to wind and waves. Ellen also had interesting jewelry. A diamond-shaped pendant made from tiny beads, an ornate metal bracelet.
Chelsea is from New York and has a pendant made from an old tile with a spiral design on it and her roommate is an artist.
A few new acquisitions at the MFA.
Diana de Rosa - Saint Cecilia with an Angel
She was a successful artist back in 17th century Naples who studied under Massimo Stanzione and associated with Artemisia Gentileschi, and now she's just forgotten.
Ram Das - A Crimson Horned Pheasant from the Impey Album
Lotte Laserstein - Self-Portrait
She was forced out of Germany by the Nazis and deemed degenerate because she had three Jewish grandparents. She was offered an exhibition in Sweden and stayed there. Alas, she couldn't get her family members safe passage.
Tang dynasty silver bowl.
August Delaherche - Miniature Vases (surrounding)
August Delaherche - Vase (center)
The miniatures are meant to be experiments that required less materials and time to create.
Unidentified Japanese artist - One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets.
These are meant to show off one’s ability, not to be actually read.
Claire Falkenstein - Model for New Gates of Paradise, Guggenheim Foundation
The real thing is in Venice and is made of iron rods instead of copper wire.
Katarina Burin - Hotel Nord-Sud model
Not for a real building.
Finial, 14th to 15th century Germany (top)
Lock and hasp for a chest, possibly France, 15th to 16th century. (bottom)
Both of these are designed to mimic architectural elements.
Greyhound Scenicruiser bus model.
A promotional piece.
Speed of the Wind wind-tunnel model
I guess this is used to test aerodynamics for the actual vehicle.
Yagi Akira - Nesting Covered Boxes
It’s like a minimalist matryoshka doll. They fit perfectly inside each other.
Rooster, Qing era, made for export. (white)
Chris Templeman - “Make and Take” Rooster (red)
The red rooster was made with a 3D printer. He dispensed 2017 of them on the Greenway for the year 2017.
Eben Haines - Shelter in Place Gallery
This was on display earlier.
Home Comfort salesman sample range
The idea behind this is to show off a product without having to drag around the way too unwieldy and heavy real things.
Miniature plate, England, 19th century.
Augustus Eliaers - Patent model for library step-chair.
Eliaers designed chairs for people unable to walk. This design was meant to convert into a stepstool so that its users could reach the books on the top shelf.
Liliana Porter - Untitled With Fallen Chairs
Miniature of “Louis 20” chair and crate. Yep, they even came with their own mini packing crate.
Isamu Noguchi - Miniature coffee table
Richard Pettibone - Andy Warhol, Tomato. Richard Pettibone built his career on miniaturized works by other artists.
Ron Ho - TV Guide
Objects from Chinese heritage (fruits, red candles, incense sticks) in an American domestic scene. It’s meant to be worn.
Miniature stove, Germany, 16th century. They’re not sure what this was meant to be.
Miniature commode from the workshop of Peter Carl Fabergé. Possibly meant to hold cigarettes.
Arnoldus van Geffen - Dining room with silver miniatures
The Dutch were well known for miniature houses.
Model for a garden pavilion, 18th century Germany.
Miniature magnifying glass. Too small to be actually useful.
Girdle book calendar, 14th century Spain or France.
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot - sketch to show how six paintings should be hung
landscape, with large tree on left, two figures at right, one holding long pole
landscape, with grove of trees at left, two men with long poles at right
Which one is which is an exercise left to the reader.
Léon Victor Dupré - Water Meadows and Cattle
Jean François Millet - Trees along a rocky stream bed
Trees beside a pool.
Top and bottom respectively if you can’t tell. I can’t.
These are typically meant to be preliminary drawings.
Rembrandt van Rijn - Canal with a large boat and bridge
Rodolphe Bresdin - Mountain Landscape with Army in a Rocky Gorge
Willem de Heusch - Eight miniature landscapes
de Heusch traveled to Italy in the 1640s where he took inspiration from the landscapes and from Italian artists who’d paint in a hazy style.
Workshop of Peter Carl Fabergé - Spray of lilies of the valley
Katsushika Hokusai - Bonsai Grower
Ring, designed by Jesús Raphael Soto, an artist more known for giant kinetic sculptures.
Bicycle brooch
The wheels actually spin and pivot. It was meant as a political statement of sorts: bicycles offer new opportunities to move around independently.
Openwork basket, France
Pair of Roosters - France
While making miniatures requires less materials, it still requires skill and talent.
Miniature eyeglass case with eyeglasses
Cup and saucer with micromosaic decoration, Germany.
Brooch, box, and box. All Italian. All micromosaics.
Pablo Picasso - Les Plastrons
Picasso rejected the fine detailing and instead went for a smudged and hazy ethereal look. Some people do that and get called assholes, this never happened to Pablo Picasso.
John la Farge - Study for Skylight, Sketches for Decoration, Study for Skylight
Albrecht Altdorfer - The Viol Player
A viol is the ancestor of the violin and viola, but with frets. They’ve been supplanted for the most part but if you want to hear four of them in action, listen to The Promised Womb by Dead Can Dance.
Below it is not the World’s Tiniest Viol but a watch in the shape of a lute from fin de 18th siecle France.
Jean-François Millet - Girl daydreaming
Édouard Brandon - Juif Lisant
Duck decoy, possibly a male wood duck. Very obviously male, though. It’s not really a decoy, though since it’s only 1/6th the size of the real thing. It’s mostly just there to be put on display.
whoops.
David Teniers the Younger - Parma the Physician
A replica of Titian’s painting by the same name.
Rembrant van Rijn - The Goldsmith
Jacques Callot - A Festival in the Piazza della Signoria, Florence
Albrecht Altdorfer - Head of a Young Man
Hans Sebald Beham - St. Peter, St. Andrew, and St. John and their copper engraving plates. St. Peter is holding keys, St. Andrew is holding his cross, and St. John is holding a chalice.
Workshop of Peter Carl Fabergé, The Balletta Bulldog
Commissioned by the Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich for his mistress, the ballerina Elizabeth Balletta. He also built a new wing in his St. Petersburg palace for her. Then they blamed him for Russia’s losses in the Russo-Japanese war and he was forced to retire from the military. He died from pneumonia in Paris.
So fun fact: the country of Montenegro declared war on Japan in solidarity with Russia and then stopped existing in 1919, was nominally independent as a Nazi client state briefly in the 1940s and then stopped existing once again until 2006. One of their first acts was a peace treaty with Japan.
Scaraboid of a hedgehog. Associated with rebirth in late period Egypt. And it’s blue.
Okatomo of Kyoto - Hare and Mushroom
Gyokuzan - Monkey Seated, Holding A Large Cluster of Biwa Fruits
Netsuke are counterweights for containers hung from a kimono’s belt or sash.
Miniature Tintype Albums
Prayer bead with depictions of St. James and St. George. Believed to be part of the True Cross.
Albrecht Dürer - The Crucifixion
Miniature Hanukkah lamp
Sabbath candlesticks
Bastet amulet inscribed for Pamay, Third Intermediate Period, Dynasty 24.
Probably used by a living owner and then buried with them when they die. Bastet was a cat goddess associated with pregnancy, childbirth, motherhood, the pharaoh, and the sun.
Rowland Parry - Mourning pendant brooch. These are meant to carry locks of hair of the deceased.
Memorial ring
“ich zahle die Stun den des Weider sehens” means “I count the hours until we meet.”
Brooch
Victorian culture put a lot of emphasis on mementoes of dead loved ones. In the bezel sits a braid of hair.
Bracelet
Contains four sets of hair.
Box, northern Europe. Depicts St. Margaret kneeling with a dragon and on the other side, St. Catherine with a spiked wheel and sword. It might be a protective talisman during childbirth.
Triptych pendant depicting martyrdom of St. Barbara, Mary of Magdala, and St. Gereon
St. Barbara is the patron saint of artillery.
Emly Shrine (reliquary casket)
Hans Sebald Beham - Madonna and Child with a Parrot
Unknown 14th century Bohemian artist - Madonna and Child
Robert W. Ebendorf - Traveling communion service
A cup for wine, dish, and container for church wafers.
The rest of the paintings are all by Matthew Wong, who took his life at the age of 35. He was born in Toronto, grew up in Hong Kong and Toronto, and went to college in Ann Arbor.
Children of a Primordial Land
River at Dusk
In several paintings, Wong would scrape away the still wet paint revealing the layer beneath
Untitled, ink on Asian paper
Wong would bring with him a sketchbook, a bottle of ink, and then make a random mess of things. He taught himself ink painting.
Untitled
Banishment from the Garden
Unusually for Wong, this painting depicts faces. Usually, they’re turned away.
Untitled
Landscape of the Longing
A Poet’s World / 一個詩人的世界
which you can see written in the top-left.
Where Did the Time Go?
Untitled
Untitled
Ugh, I might have to ninja edit once I find the name of this painting because Google prides itself on being useless.
Wong stumbled upon books on Chinese ink painting at the Hong Kong Central Library.
Gone Till November - depicts Bauhinia, the emblem of Hong Kong.
Heaven and Earth
Contemplating the Iceberg
Solitaire - depicts Los Angeles from Mulholland Drive
River at Night
Day 4
Once Upon A Time in the West - Wong was a film buff.
The Realm of Appearances - based on a composition by his friend Scott Kahn
Landscape With Mother and Child
Youth
White Wave, Black Sand
The West
Distance
The Wish
Somewhere
The Kingdom - inspired by the birch forests painted by Gustav Klimt. In the distance, a crowned figure sits on an altar. The name Wong means king in Chinese.
Old Town
New Moon (after John Beerman)
A Walk By The Sea
A Walk By The Sea
Path to the Sea
Unknown Pleasures
Blue Night
Morning Mist
though my camera overcompensated with the pale green tint of the image.
See You On The Other Side
Landscape with Ella - depicting John Cheim’s dog sitting by the pool
Tracks in the Blue Forest
Blue Rain - while isolated, the light from the lamps and the moon provide comfort and sanctuary.
It's big enough. I'll post the Hokusai stuff in another entry.
You could write a poem. Here are three of them.
Nan Peyi’m solèy leve chak jou cìankou m be nan Paradi, bel Flè Pouse nan chak sezon Haiti
Haiti cheri mwen Pa Gen dwa bliyew mim si wapban’m dyiaman, Haiti
Haiti, Haiti, onjou wap retoumen. Jan’w te ye avan. I love you Haiti
<3 <3 <3
grounding
in empty space that was not
green flew like fire
i became what i came from and where
i will be, will be
because water was me
exalting and constant
and i found my inky
sound, sing
the notes by which i
am and spin
kismet 7/14
kismet means fate. It comes from a Turkish word borrowed from Arabic. I just played through the Auroran campaign of EV Nova so all I can think of is the planet.
To you I ??? as if I’m lost
Dear landscape ???
save me from the f??? that ???? words
where a hazy silhoutte saved me
landscape do mimic their warmth
so that if if ??? do, i would be saved
valentina ???, 2023
Fiona was reading The Dispossessed and so I brought up Always Coming Home and my plans to read it before summers’ end although I have a pile with eight other books to read and only so much time and has tattoos of art by Hilma af Klint, a fin de siecle Swedish artist who, along with Kandinsky, Malevich, and Mondrian, created some of the first abstract works in western art. On one arm, fantastic astronomical diagrams and sigils, on the other, vines and flora. She makes stickers with raccoons.
She kind of reminds me of primrose but i don’t know my Asian diaspora in Wisconsin very well. Sometimes it’s easy to find that stuff, like MA’s Hispanic-Latin population, sometimes it isn’t.
Magdalena has short green hair much like a Lemming and a spiked choker and stars stickered on their face and star earrings.
Hokusai later because I took a lot lot lot of pictures.
burning question: does the LGB in LGB Alliance stand for liberals, gendercriticals, and bigots? because nothing they have ever done, at any juncture in time, helped gays, lesbians, and bisexuals
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