Block-notes Art & Literature: April 2015

Tuesday, 7 April 2015

Monday, 6 April 2015

Hamlet's Network

This is the social network of Shakespeare's Hamlet.
More at: Graph Visualization Software for Networks of Characters in Plays

Harry Potter's Social Network

Only the principal characters of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.

Othello's Social Network

This is the social network of Shakespeare's Othello.
More at: Graph Visualization Software for Networks of Characters in Plays

Sunday, 5 April 2015

Luca Carlevarijs (talvolta anche Carlevaris) (1663-1730) è stato un pittore italiano. Fu influenzato da Gaspar van Wittel ed è considerato il precursore del Canaletto e degli altri vedutisti veneziani.

Venezia

Camille Corot

Ara Pacis

Agnolo Bronzino

Agnolo di Cosimo (November 17, 1503 – November 23, 1572), usually known as Il Bronzino, or Agnolo Bronzino, was an Italian Mannerist painter from Florence. In the images, fours of his portrait elegant figures.

The Japanese Art of an Inkless Printing

Karazuri means 'empty printing'; it consists in carving a pattern into a woodblock and then printing it in the usual way with a baren, but without any pigment being applied to the wood. The pressure of the baren on the back of the paper causes part of the paper to be squeezed between the wood and the baren - and thus flattened. Areas of the paper that remain untouched by the pressure keep their original fullness. It is the difference between these two that gives the embossed appearance. So the 'raised' areas of the block will be pressed into the paper, and the 'carved away' areas will end up forming 'bumps' on the print surface.
From http://woodblock.com/encyclopedia/entries/012_01/012_01.html

Here my paper on this "Inkless Printing"