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what signage are you?
by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com) as far as i know “signage” isn’t a word. although it’s in use (and may have been recently added to the dictionary – i don’t keep up) it’s basically professional “lingo” that is entering our vocabulary. … Continue reading
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Tagged american graphic design, art chantry, design culture, good design, graphic design, herculaneum, pest control businesses, Pompeii, popular mechanics magazine, saul bass, Woody Guthrie, woody guthrie commercial sign painter
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Antique Eurythmics: “TABLEAU VIVANTS” at POMPEII
When the ruins of Pompeii came to light, they caused a revolution in taste- stripping away rococo gilt, reshaping the female figure, and leaving a deposit of pseudo-Greek temples from Moscow to Mississippi; although what sometimes passed for “classical” would … Continue reading
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Tagged Archibald Alison, Charles Greville, Claude Lorrain, Cochin, Comte de Caylus, Emma Hamilton, Fragonard, Francois Boucher, George Romney, Giambattista Piranesi, Goethe, Horace Walpole, Horatio Nelson, Jean Racine, Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Joseph Addison, Joshua Reynolds, Lord Nelson, Lord Pembroke, Pompeii, Pompeii Art, Pompeii frescoes, Queen Maria Carolina of Naples, Revett, Richard West, Thomas Gray, Vivien Leigh
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POMPEII: Gods Indifferent To The Power of Prayer
When the ruins came to light, they caused a revolution in taste-stripping away rococo gilt, reshaping the female figure, and leaving deposit of pseudo-Greek temples from Moscow to Mississippi- although what sometimes passed for “classical” would have bewildered the ancients. … Continue reading
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Tagged Archibald Alison, Bacchus, Emma Hamilton, Giambattista Piranesi, Horace Walpole, Josiah Wedgewood, Judith Harris, Mark Morford, Mary Beard, Pink Floyd Pompeii, Pliny the Younger, Pompeii, Pompeii Art, Pompeii erotic art, Pompeii frecoes, Pompeii statues, Richard West, Sir William Hamilton, Thomas Gray, Winckelmann
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