Saturday, August 31, 2024

Personified Code Source



From a 1958 Russian science journal

Friday, August 23, 2024

Lyonel Feininger - Edged Spaces, 1954

A study in flatness, compression of depth, two dimensions represented in two dimensions, rendering a planar perspective, how pale and washed-out colors enhance an illusion of flatness that isn't an illusion...

The adventure of course is to stare at this image until the illusion of flatness "springs" into an illusion of three dimensions, whereupon Feininger's title "Edged Spaces" is authenticated.

Tuesday, August 20, 2024

1984 Issue #3, "the most offensive story in horror comics" - a note from Terrance Lindall

Terrace Lindall writes:

Warren Magazines were the foremost horror magazines of the 20th century. The success of Warren, can be laid at Archie Goodwin’s door and gave Marvel, DC  & Charlton the desire to reenter the horror field.  Charlton provided a home base for Steve Ditko, Pat Boyette, Rocco Mastroserio and other Warren artists.  Marvel copied Warren when it began its color horror line in 1969. I asked James Warren if I could do a cover for Warren's 1984, but he said that Dubay decides that for 1984. I did end upon the French version of 1984 with a cover that was considered the best ever for Warren. See attached.

Bill Dubay who had a blank check to create anything he wanted in horror comics. Issue 3 of 1984 features the single most offensive story in Warren history, "The Harvest" where corporations have set up various gaming preserves. A father and his son go hunting where it is revealed that they are hunting black people, treated as animals, and are brutally murdered to provide food for the white protagonists. Could it get even worse than that? It does! The ending of the story features the boy shooting a pregnant woman, with the father tearing her baby out of her and talking about serving it as veal.

Here is the image:




Interested in the history of these magazines? See James Warren: Empire of Monsters. Amazon description linked to the image below. Mr. Lindall gets a mention on page 267.


Thursday, August 15, 2024

"Concerto Spaciale"

                                                          - Lucio Fontana, 1949

Saturday, August 10, 2024

Kinetic Painting III

Francis Michael Celentano (American, 1928–2016). "Kinetic Painting III," 1967. Acrylic on Masonite with motor. Diameter: 48 inches (121.9 cm). Collection Buffalo AKG Art Museum. Gift of Seymour H. Knox, Jr., 1968 (K1968:8)