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Very important question: what sound do roosters make in your language?
In Italy, it's "chicchirichì" 🐓
("Rooster and log", 1952, Fernand Legér)
Look at the panneggio in the fresco 'Restoring to Life of a Monk' (1388) by Spinello Aretino in Florence and be amazed at the almost sculptural quality of the cloths
"Everyone can see that Fra Angelico was a different character from Veermer. Yet none of these artists was making his choice in order to express his personality. He did it only incidentally, as we express ourselves in everything we do - whether we light a pipe or run after a bus."
Morbid study of feet and hands (1818) by 27-years-old Théodore Gėricault
Art trade is always changing.
"In the 15th century painting was too important to be left to the painters. The picture trade was a quite different think from that in our own late romantic condition, in which painters paint what they think best and then look round for buyer." 1/2
"Meteorology: the sun in Baffin Bay disperses thick fog in the shape of a semicircle" (1827) by Paolo Fumagalli
Working on proposals for a short essay about AI generated art and I'm *this* close to suggesting to explore the generic sci-fi aesthetic of the pictures used for articles about AI
:( when I realised that the Adonis trending in the UK isn't "Adonis the White Stallion" painted by James Ward (1769-1859)