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Each unique Tree of 40 Fruit grows over 40 different types of stone fruit including peaches, plums, apricots, nectarines, cherries, and almonds. Sculpted through the process of grafting, the Tree of 40 Fruit blossom in variegated tones of pink, crimson and white in spring, and in summer bear a multitude of fruit.
the state of procedural universes:
You’re building a blueprint. So say one of our artists will build something and that will take say a week. But what they get from that is every possible variant of that. So if you build a cat, you also get a lion and a tiger and a panther and things that you’ve never seen—kind of mutations beyond that
Vermeer’s paintings might be 350 year-old color photographs. guy spends a year building a replica of a room, then painting it with a special mirror device to achieve the photographic effects vermeer is famous for. crazy.
a fractal doodling program. quite impressive.
did leonardo work with a student to paint the mona lisa stereoscopically?
2 years ago, the Prado Museum in Madrid announced that a painting long thought to be a relatively unremarkable copy of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa was actually painted contemporaneously with the original, likely by a student following the master as he drew and painted the portrait. Infrared reflectography found that the 18th century black overpaint obscured a hilly background almost the same as the original. When the black overpaint and varnish were removed from the Prado’s copy, further infrared and X-ray analysis found underdrawings and alterations from the tracing and all the way through the upper paint levels that matched those in 2004 scans of the Louvre Mona Lisa. That means from the initial sketches to the changes and corrections as painting progressed, the Prado copy followed along at each stage.
It was the greatest art theft in history: 650K works looted from Europe by the Nazis, many of which were never recovered. But last November the world learned that German authorities had found a trove of 1280 paintings, drawings, and prints worth more than $1B in the Munich apartment of a haunted white-haired recluse.
there is lots of new great graffiti in bushwick, as part of the collective. more
If you like contemporary art, the armory show is amazing.
a leading international contemporary and modern art fair and one of the most important annual art events in New York, takes place every March on Piers 92 & 94 in central Manhattan
Farewell is some new kind of urban troll:
featuring police responding to a hollow person he built out of tape and set adrift on a river.
I like it. More
https://archive.is/20220105025142/https://vimeo.com/79910087
There has long been various lines of speculation about Mona Lisa, including the existence of an earlier version of the painting. Did Leonardo da Vinci preface the legendary Mona Lisa with another version?
Gregor J. Rothfuss 