Nobody cares about Art

[Argent Stonecutter]

Batik except it probably has a different name in China.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Unmasking Banksy – the street artist is not one man but a whole brand of people

The scale of his work and the control he has over his brand suggests that Banksy is not just one man anymore.

theconversation.com

 

[Free]

Leonardo da Vinci used toxic pigments when he painted the Mona Lisa

Plumbonacrite has previously been found in later works by Rembrandt.

arstechnica.com

When Leonardo da Vinci was creating his masterpiece, the Mona Lisa, he may have experimented with lead oxide in his base layer, resulting in trace amounts of a compound called plumbonacrite. It forms when lead oxides combine with oil, a common mixture to help paint dry, used by later artists like Rembrandt. But the presence of plumbonacrite in the Mona Lisa is the first time the compound has been detected in an Italian Renaissance painting, suggesting that da Vinci could have pioneered this technique, according to the authors of a recent paper published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

 

[Govi]

Does that mean I should stop eating Renaissance paintings?

 

[Veritable Quandry]

In my notes from my Museum Collections Management class I have "DO NOT LICK THE PAINTINGS" written on the day we discussed the chemicals used in historic paints.

 

[Free]

Does that mean I should stop eating Renaissance paintings?

If you're still living after all this time, I say keep at it.

 

[Soen Eber]

OK, this is just too damn retro cool not to share:

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Isabeau]

Wasn’t sure where to place this.

Weird Tales from the Public Domain: Freeing Culture from Corporate Captivity | Internet Archive Blogs

blog.archive.org

The mouse that became Mickey will finally be free of his corporate captivity as the copyright term of the 1928 animated Disney film, Steamboat Willie, expires along with that of thousands of other cultural works on the first day of 2024.

The year 1928 brought us a host of still relevant, oft-revived and remixed culture, from H.P. Lovecraft’s classic horror story, “Call of Cthulhu” (originally published in Weird Tales; now currently a popular video game), to the Threepenny Opera, a critique of income inequality and the excesses of capitalism that is surprisingly on point for our current era.
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[Argent Stonecutter]

I can't beieve they didn't pass another Mickey Mouse law.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Free]

Sound effects.



Maglink

 

[Free]

Weird Tales from the Public Domain: Freeing Culture from Corporate Captivity | Internet Archive Blogs

blog.archive.org

The OG Mickey Mouse Finally Hits the Public Domain Next Week

I'm thinking we can put on a production of Steamboat Willie on a Murder Spree. I'm getting together a writers' room for it. Plot ideas?

 

[Free]

To start 2024 off right...

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Essence Lumin]

Sometimes art strikes in the strangest of places. This nurse nearly accidentally created the perfect @ symbol.
She writes:

To answer a couple questions I saw:

1. The pen is a Uni-Ball Signo 307.
2. Yes, this was a total fluke. No, I won't be able to recreate it.
3. The entire sentence was "patient care taken over @ 0700hrs." I work as a nurse and have to hand-write all my progress notes.

The reddit thread has many accolades for her creation. For example,

That's so perfect it almost breaches into uncanny. Is there an uncanny valley for text? Because this looks so perfect I have to work to convince myself this isn't printed. And the whole thing makes my brain fight me over whether or not this was written or printed.

Look at that subtle off white coloring, a tasteful thickness of it

 

[Beebo Brink]