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Romanian Fata and Mathematical Equation
 
Another combination of two images from two collections. The background of this image comes from the Aesthetic Appeal collection on Internet Archive, which is Iranian computer scientist Hamid Naderi Yeganeh's selection of what he considers the most visually appealing graphs created by his software. Here, a detail of the graph of the equation on the right. The graph is used as a "frame" for a picture from the Flickr Commons Costica Acsinte collection of photographs taken by Costica Acsinte, who ran a photo studio in Romania between 1897 and 1984. The collection notes that the woman's name is Fata.
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Sources:
Link1: archive.org/details/727vhn62
Link2: www.flickr.com/photos/costicaacsinte/11654700095/

Three Actresses in Costumes


Back to exploring the Flickr Commons, a look at the online offerings of Het Nieuwe Instituut, a Dutch architect's organization. Four elements in this one: the triple girls in the foreground are a costume design (Link1), placed upon an upside-down alphabet (Link2), then arranged on a decorative pattern (Link3) and a floor tile design (Link4).
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Sources:
Link1: www.flickr.com/photos/nai_collection/8475989238/
Link2: www.flickr.com/photos/nai_collection/8474899479/
Link3: www.flickr.com/photos/nai_collection/8474898777/
Link4: www.flickr.com/photos/nai_collection/8475988444/

Dream Vision: Color Wheelies and Plants
   
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From Armstrong's 1949 catalog, five duplicates of a color wheel showing shades available in the company's plain linoleum product (Link1). Superimposed on top of that is a crowded page of flower drawings from the French Livres de Fleurs (Link2), done approximately 1700. I am fond of this image, so I did it larger (right) and sent both versions off to Poster Print Factory for poster prints, the first 12"x13.2" and the second 18"x24".
Sources:
Link1: archive.org/details/ArmstrongsPatternBook1949
Link2: archive.org/details/MAB.31962000728547Images_201306

Images Created during Thursday Morning Still Life Class