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Reflections of a High Rise Building in a High Rise Building

With the advent of glass-sheathed building in cities, no matter how apparently smooth, the reflections of other buildings on the surface carry the distortions of both the glass…

Advertisement for Gay Village on bus in Rome

This advertisement features a close-up of an intimate kiss between two men writ large on the back of a public bus in Rome, Italy. Gay Village is a…

Jelly Jars by Mary Pratt

This small painting by contemporary Canadian artist Mary Pratt is within the genre of super- or photo-realism. It also sit within a tradition of realistic descriptive painting that…

Anamorphic Drawing

Anamorphic drawings or paintings can be seen in proportion in a reflective cylinder or cone and, usually, from a particular point in space. When viewed from the wrong…

Death Mask of Agamemnon at the ROM

Contrary to the title this is not the death mask of Agamemnon because the date of the mask (1550 – 1500 BCE) predates the life of Agamemnon and…

Judith Beheading Holofernes

Baroque painting by Artemisia Gentileschi at the Uffizi Gallery, Rome.

Huawei Advertisement Florence, Italy

This advertisement was directly across from the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore and the Baptistry in Florence, Italy December 2018. Advertisements of this size are only allowed…

Detail of Geoffrey Farmer’s “Leaves of Grass” at the National Gallery, Ottawa, Canada

Leaves of Grass (detail) provides a densely collaged three-dimensional array of images from Life magazine 1935-1985. It is an examination of the effects photography has had on what…

Geoffrey Farmer’s “Leaves of Grass” at the National Gallery, Ottawa, Canada

Leaves of Grass provides a densely collaged three-dimensional array of images from Life magazine 1935-1985. It is an examination of the effects photography has had on what we…

Aspirations

The idea of toys for children is emphasized by making the text rounded, of different bright colors and by using a backwards ‘R’ in stead of the word…