Picasso’s Guernica painting turns 75 years old this year, and in order to have it restored, Madrid’s Reina Sofia museum has designed a robot capable of scanning the entire painting for signs of wear and places where restoration is needed the most. The museum teamed up with Spanish telecommunication company Telefonica to build Pablito, as it’s now called, and the robot goes to work every night taking thousands of high-resolution pictures of the famous black and white anti-war painting.
Normally, when a painting the size of Guernica needs to be restored, it is taken down and worked on in a laboratory. But, because Guernica has been moved so many times, and even altered, curators thought it would be best to leave it hanging in the museum, and turn the first part of the job over to a technological master. The oil-on-canvas painting depicts tormented and distorted human and animal figures, a representation of the horror of modern warfare. It was inspired by the Italian and German bombing of a Spanish town in the Basque region during the Spanish Civil War in 1937.
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Another Victuals painting for another Kickstarter backer.
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Vintage Dark Shadows cover art by George Wilson—I love how this original painting was photographed (by accident) in a way where the type and design pasteup stuff got sharp focus and the painting went a bit soft…kind of a happy accident.
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Fantasy of a Billsticker (London Street Scene). John Parry, Oil on Canvas; 1835
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An appreciation of Drew Struzan - the man who defined 80s Hollywood Film Poster aesthetics.
Everyone’s familiar with his artwork but very few realise it’s one man behind some of the most defining images from many of the most iconic films from my childhood - the 80s. The name of the artist is Drew Struzan and he started his career on George Lucas’s Star Wars - the rest is history. He went on to create the instantly recognisable artwork for 80s classics such as Back To The Future, Blade Runner, Big Trouble In Little Trouble, The Cannon Ball Run as well as Indiana Jones & The Temple Of Doom to name a few. His style is an increasingly lost art-form involving physically drawing, painting and airbrushing the canvases for his unique Circus-Show montage style treatments. Crafted by hand, not by computer graphic packages I must emphasise. There is a magical hard-to-define nostalgic charm to his work that perfectly captures the spirit of the late 70s and 80s. I’m sure you’ll agree that these examples can be considered design classics. Modern film posters just don’t quite have the soul of these masterpieces.
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Vincent Van Gogh
In case you ever wanted to see 9 of the most brilliant Van Gogh paintings, really small and all right next to each other. :)
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