The Dutch Master Cornelius Saftleven
Saftleven’s greatest contribution to Dutch painting are his images of Hell. Equally innovative were his satires and allegories. Saftleven excelled in painting animals and he often portrayed them as active characters, with a hidden allegorical role. Also well known are Saftleven’s black chalk drawings with single figures, usually young men, or his sketches of animals with Savery’s influence. Nowadays about two hundred of his oil paintings and five hundred drawings have preserved. This work is a fascinating example of Saftleven’s engaging satire and peculiar subjects. In the painting a young man and a child are seen at the barn door watching a monkey conducting a chorus of cats, while an owl and a magpie are cheering them on. All the cats are wearing fine ribbons and collars, and one has an elaborate headpiece. The barn floor is strewn with playing cards, dice and bottles of alcoholic spirits, all referring to sinful idle life. In the 17th century cats, monkeys and magpies were all regarded as capricious and untrustworthy animals, while owls, who nowadays are the symbol of wisdom, marked ignorance and overindulgence.
Collages by Julia Lillard
Julia Lillard is a self-taught artist from Oklahoma, USA who, for the most part, creates surreal digital and paper collage.
My first love was art photography, but in my 50s, that developed into a love for collage and abstract paintings. My range of styles is somewhat eclectic, and my imagination is triggered by any image, color or situation that catches my attention. I let something outside of myself take over and usually have no idea what the end result will be.
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Jean-Michel Basquiat
acrylic and oil stick on paper
30 x 22in. (76.2 x 55.8cm.)
Executed in 1982
Tombili: Istanbul cat and worldwide meme honoured with statue
‘Tombili’, a rotund cat beloved by Istanbul’s Ziverbey neighbourhood, has been commemorated by the city authorities after local demand for a tribute to his memory. Tombili - a Turkish word often used for chubby pets - was known by residents of Ziverbey, part of the district of Kadıköy, for his nonchalant demeanour towards people who wanted to play with him. The cat became world famous earlier this year after a photo of him reclining in one of his favourite spots on the pavement was shared thousands of times on social media. Kadıköy’s deputy mayor said in the inauguration ceremony that 17,000 people had demanded a memorial sculpture.
Via Independent and Anadolu Kedisi
The Weirdly Morbid Mixed Media Sculptures of Sarah Sitkin
Sarah Sitkin is a Los Angeles based artist. Her sculptural works are made in wide variety of media including but not limited to silicone, clay, plaster, resin,and latex.
Metamaterial Mechanisms
Fabrication research from Hasso Plattner Institute is process to give single 3D printed objects elastic mechanical properties:
Recently, researchers started to engineer not only the outer shape of objects, but also their internal microstructure. Such objects, typically based on 3D cell grids, are also known as metamaterials. Metamaterials have been used, for example, to create materials with soft and hard regions.
So far, metamaterials were understood as materials—we want to think of them as machines. We demonstrate metamaterial objects that perform a mechanical function. Such metamaterial mechanisms consist of a single block of material the cells of which play together in a well-defined way in order to achieve macroscopic movement. Our metamaterial door latch, for example, transforms the rotary movement of its handle into a linear motion of the latch. Our metamaterial Jansen walker consists of a single block of cells—that can walk. The key element behind our metamaterial mechanisms is a specialized type of cell, the only ability of which is to shear.
In order to allow users to create metamaterial mechanisms efficiently we implemented a specialized 3D editor. It allows users to place different types of cells, including the shear cell, thereby allowing users to add mechanical functionality to their objects. To help users verify their designs during editing, our editor allows users to apply forces and simulates how the object deforms in response.
Hand blown glass miniature “Anatomy in a Jar” series by Kiva Ford
Kiva Ford’s passion with glass began early in life, and was anchored with his college degree in Scientific Glassblowing. Through years of work creating complex glass instruments for scientist’s use, he has perfected his precision and technique in manipulating glass.
Beyond the scientific community, Kiva is more commonly known for his exquisite glass goblets, bottles, pendants and vessels. Kiva’s artistic work is influenced by his interests in history, mythology, and the natural world.
you can purchase these at his Etsy shop
A selection of drawings by Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759 –1840). Pierre was sometimes called the “the Raphael of flowers” for his botanical illustrations of exquisite detail and beauty. He collaborated with many botanists and painted the flowers found in the gardens of French chateaux and further afield. He was also an official court artist for the famous Queen Marie Antoinette and after the French revolution Joséphine de Beauharnais, the first wife of Napoleon Bonaparte, became his patron.
You can see the small details of his paintings zooming into the images in the google arts project