"They present us with a variety of brilliant hues, often of the greatest purity, and combined in striking contrast and conspicuous patterns. Their use depends upon their boldness and visibility, not on the presence of any one color. Hence we find among these groups some of the most exquisitely-colored objects in nature... Conspicuousness being useful, every variation tending to brighter and purer colors was selected."
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Starveling Rabblement
lrb.co.uk
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Twain Town, USA
theamericanscholar.org
16 points·by prismatic··6 comments
Twain Town, USA
theamericanscholar.org
2 points·by prismatic··0 comments
Why the Odyssey Keeps Defeating Filmmakers
newyorker.com
3 points·by prismatic··0 comments
Where the Light Falls: Who Was Johannes Vermeer?
harpers.org
5 points·by prismatic··0 comments
Jackie Gleason's Paranormal Activity
newyorker.com
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Gordon Wood's Proust
thelampmagazine.com
1 points·by prismatic··0 comments
Why are there so many canines in fine art?
theatlantic.com
19 points·by prismatic··30 comments
On the nature of autobiographical memory
theamericanscholar.org
22 points·by prismatic··4 comments
What Did the Hudson River School Painters See?
nytimes.com
11 points·by prismatic··4 comments
The Melancholy of Slaying Monsters
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
298 points·by prismatic··145 comments
The Prophecies of the Brahan Seer (1877)
publicdomainreview.org
1 points·by prismatic··0 comments
How Much of the Internet Is AI Slop?
statsignificant.com
6 points·by prismatic··0 comments
Octonous Open Beta: What We've Learned and Where We're Going
blog.mozilla.ai
4 points·by prismatic··0 comments
Pyramid of the Capitalist System (1911)
publicdomainreview.org
5 points·by prismatic··0 comments
Wolfgang Koeppen's Structural Musicality
theparisreview.org
11 points·by prismatic··0 comments
Little magazines are back
wsjfreeexpression.substack.com
113 points·by prismatic··40 comments
Ben Lerner's Big Feelings
vulture.com
43 points·by prismatic··22 comments
The Soviet Network
literaryreview.co.uk
2 points·by prismatic··0 comments
Doing Impressions: Monet's Early Caricatures (ca. late 1850s)
Agreed. My three-year-old's favorite episode, by far. Realizing how artistically ambitious and just plain good Bluey is has been an interesting lesson in how kids actually do have good taste/interesting preferences as long as you don't bombard them with the Cocomelons of the world.
My daughter likes to say "that makes me happy... and sad!" at the end of a particularly artistic episode, like Sleepytime, the wordless one where it rains, or the final episode ("The Sign" - the Citizen Kane of children's television).
The PDR article doesn't mention any link between them, but Clarke's illustrations look very influenced by Aubrey Beardsley to me. I find both interesting as examples of the kind of thing that minimalist/modernist aesthetics both destroyed and grew out of (in the sense that Beardsley and Clarke both display the Victorian horror vacui and love of ornamentation, but also experiment with huge swathes of empty space):