Étienne-Louis Boullée is the master of monumental cenotaphs.
Boullée’s most emblematic project is his cenotaph designed for Isaac Newton. It’s the first of the pictures below and you can find a short text about it here.
Frédéric Fontenoy
Métamorphose
Métamorphose is a project by French photographer Frédéric Fontenoy that consists of slit-scan self portraits created in outdoor locations.
Alexey Kashpersky
The uncanny body
Why is it that looking at an open body causes such revulsion?
Ernst Haeckel
Kunstformen der Natur
The book Kunstformen der Natur (German for Art Forms of Nature) by the biologist Ernst Haeckel is a masterpiece of art and science.
Alex Grey
How Art Evolves Consciousness
Alex Grey is best known for his paintings of see-through humans interwoven in the realm of energy. Until I experienced…
Joth Shakerley
The Rainbow Tribe
Joth Shakerley is following the Rainbow Family for over twenty years. The pictures he brought back are beyond words.
Julia Turk
Navigators Tarot of the Mystic Sea
I have always been drawn to things I found suggestive but couldn’t understand. The tarot is such a theme that speaks to my imagination but I can’t explain what it really is.
Hermann Hesse
Lebensstufen
Traveling south, being outdoors and reading Hesse goes well together.
And I’m realizing again how deeply this man talks to me.
Aimei Ozaki
Plant contemplations
Cacti and succulents are plants with fascinating characteristics. And this series portrays them in the most beautiful way.
Islamic architecture
Kaleidoscopes of adoration
Gazing up into the kaleidoscopic worlds of these Iranian mosque ceilings invokes a feeling of transcendental glory.
Jacque Fresco
The Venus Project
Today I picked up one of my favorite books, Island by Aldous Huxley, his radical blueprint for a better world.…
Leo & Diane Dillon
The Heart with Wings
For more than fifty years the Dillon’s formed one of the most successful and influential illustrator partnership.
Boris Bućan
Reimagining Folk Art
Visually arresting and conceptually rigorous, the graphic design of Boris Bućan has recently experienced renewed international interest.
Alexis Pichot
Nocturnal Rites of Passage
The long-time exposures Alexis brings back from his solitary immersions into the night reflect a desire for stillness, to retrieve a timeless meaning lost to modern man.
Agnes Pelton
Desert Visionary
Agnes Lawrence Pelton (1881–1961) was a member of the Transcendental Painting Group, dedicated to the principles of creating and promoting a pure abstract painting style imbued with spiritual intent.
Ernesto Neto
The body that carries me
I would describe the work of Ernesto Neto as ‘body art’. It’s a supreme example of art that communicates by bodily sensations.
Sabin Bălaşa
Dreams of Eternal Blue
Bălaşa paints a unique universe, full of archetypal figures and metaphysical themes. He called it Cosmic Romanticism.
Pedro Friedeberg
Architect of Patterns
Pedro Friedeberg and Frida Kahlo were the only two Mexican artists recognized by Andre Breton as part of the Surrealist movement.
Augustin Lesage
The voices you heard were real
In 1912, the pitface miner Augustin Lesage heard a voice telling him that he was going to become a painter…
David Jien
The Tale of the Inner Struggle
The narrative drawings reflect the eternal human struggle for the right path in life, alongside our demons.
Berndnaut Smilde
Making Clouds
Berndnaut Smilde performs magic. I don’t need to know how he’s creating his indoor clouds but I love it. I totally share his fascination with clouds.
