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The Permanence of Form from Vernacular to Rationalism: Giuseppe Pagano’s “Architettura Rurale Italiana” at Milan Triennale (1936)
https://socks-studio.com/2024/06/16/the-permanence-of-form-from-vernacular-to-rationalism-giuseppe-pagano-the-rural-house-at-the-milan-triennale-1936/
Published: June 16, 2024 13:05
Giuseppe Pagano was a central figure in Italian architecture of the first part of the 20th century. Along with his practice as a rationalist architect and his political engagement, which led him to leave the Fascist Party, join the Resistance, and later be…
“I called them Ghosts”. Visual Poems and Sequences by George Wylesol
https://socks-studio.com/2024/04/14/i-called-them-ghosts-visual-poems-and-sequences-by-george-wylesol/
Published: April 14, 2024 13:48
George Wylesol is a Baltimore-based artist who primarily produces illustrations and comic-like sequences of drawings, often accompanied by written text in the form of short poems. His works blend mundane objects and settings with surreal plots and visual…
90-Degree Axonometric’s by Auguste Merle (Late 19th – Early 20th C.)
https://socks-studio.com/2024/03/31/90-degree-axonometrics-by-auguste-merle-late-19th-early-20th-c/
Published: March 31, 2024 16:17
Auguste Merle was an Art Brut artist living in France at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. His works depict imaginary buildings with meticulous detailing, using graphite on notebook paper. The rigorous yet inventive forms are depicted in 90-degree…
“One Can No Longer Distinguish the Sun’s Outline”: Atlas of Clouds and of States of the Sky (1930)
https://socks-studio.com/2024/03/24/one-can-no-longer-distinguish-the-suns-outline-atlas-of-clouds-and-of-states-of-the-sky-1930/
Published: March 24, 2024 15:36
A cloud atlas is a visual depiction of various types of clouds accompanied by their classification and nomenclature. Cloud atlases were primarily developed starting in the 19th century and utilised for training weather forecasters and meteorologists. The…
Alain Biltereyst: Traces of Abstraction in the Urban Environment
https://socks-studio.com/2024/02/04/alain-biltereyst-traces-of-abstraction-in-the-urban-environment/
Published: February 4, 2024 15:46
Contemporary Belgian artist Alain Biltereyst works on abstract paintings characterized by bold patterns and colors. Most of the time, the shapes he depicts are not purely the result of chosen arrangements but act as a sort of “found art”: they are…
H. Wieners and P. Treutleins’ Catalogue of Mathematical Models (19th Century)
https://socks-studio.com/2024/01/21/wieners-treutleins-mathematical-models/
Published: January 21, 2024 16:48
After last week’s post on Man Ray’s photographs of equation models from the Institut Poincaré in Paris, here are four illustrations (plus the cover) from the book “Verzeichnis von H. Wieners und P. Treutleins Sammlungen mathematischer Modelle für…
Man Ray, Mathematical Objects (1934-36)
https://socks-studio.com/2024/01/14/man-ray-mathematical-objects-1934-36/
Published: January 14, 2024 18:27
The collection of 19th-century three-dimensional models of algebraic and differential equations at the Institut Henri Poincaré in Paris made a great impression on Surrealist artists. Allegedly, after Max Ernst brought these wood, metal, wire, and plaster…