 Today’s ArtDrop is a Victorian hair craft memento woven into the shape of a tree and tiny bouquets under a bell jar from the mid 1800s. (Artist unknown.).
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 Today’s ArtDrop is an installation project introduced in 2013 my Ian Berry. 'Record Store’ features reproductions of classic LPs and other paraphernalia of record stores made out of denim.
The photograph shows a standing LP flip rack and a wall display of LPs made out of denim. The flip rack is also covered in denim.  Today’s ArtDrop is a Florentine Renaissance oil on panel “Venus and Mars” circa 1485 by Sandro Botticelli.
The image is a long horizontal panel of the god and goddess reclining in a forest. Venus in a diaphanous gown looks at mostly naked Mars who is dead asleep. He might be exhausted after enjoying Venus’ charms. She seems calmly disappointed by his lack of attention. Four mischievous child fauns are playing with Mars’ helmet and lance. One of them is about to startle Mars awake by blowing a horn in his ear.  Today’s ArtDrop is a classic manga series of Japanese comics published from 1970-1976. “Lone Wolf and Cub” was a collaboration between Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima.
The image shows a black and white ink illustration of a fierce ronin assassin wearing all black tenderly carrying his toddler son in his arms as they are surrounded by a pantheon of helpful Shinto spirits and ancestors behind them. (Think ‘Mandalorian’.)  Today’s ArtDrop is a black and white selfie from 1927 by surrealist photographer Claude Cahun.
The image is mostly dark. Highlighted from the background is the artist’s face. They have sculpted their hairline into a gothic bat-like line. Their arms and hands are posed in an angular fashion framing a mirrored sphere. The box camera can be seen in the mirror set up in front of a window that is the only light source. At the bottom of the photograph, the highlights of the composition are repeated by a glimpse of silky fabric glimmering in the light.  Today’s ArtDrop is a piece of street art by Will Coles. This image of the work was uploaded in to JAM Project Flickr account in 2011. “Think” is a life-size cell phone cast in concrete and mortared to a brick wall.
The image shows a grey brick wall with a concrete cell phone painted over in the same color attached to it. The leaf of a fern encroaches from the top left.  Today’s ArtDrop is '7000 Oaks: City Forestation Instead of City Administration’, a long term public art installation in Kassel, Germany by Joseph Beuys. The piece is comprised of planted trees, each of which has an accompanying basalt stone installed at the base of its trunk. The project was initiated in 1982 with the stones piled up outside Kassel’s administration building. The stones were removed one-by-one as the trees were planted.
The image shows a road flanked by an avenue of oak trees with basalt stones next to them grown just tall enough to start sheltering and shading the road below.  Today’s ArtDrop is an International Gothic painting from 1434-45 by Bernat Martorell of ‘Saint George and the Dragon.’
Crouched in the lower right of this image is a detailed painting of a vicious dragon with tongue and teeth snarling out of its snout. It has splayed bat-like wings and claws aimed at its attacker. Behind the dragon, its tail snakes toward its cave lair. Above the dragon riding a beautiful white horse with gilt saddle and harness is the dashing Saint George. He wears full armor with a white long cape emblazoned with a cross emblem that flutters behind him, as he raises his long spear to dispatch the menacing beast below him. Standing above the dragon’s lair is a chaste and fair princess in rich pink robes praying devoutly. In the background at the top of this vertical painting is a town with a stone fortress. From its walls can be seen crowds of onlookers watching the event below.  Today’s ArtDrop is a 15th Century illustrated depiction of the Earth as a sphere by Master of Anthony of Burgundy illustrated between 1467 and 1475. It is from "De proprietatibus rerum” by Bartolomeo Anglicus in the book about astronomy.
The illustration shows four learned astronomers discussing their observations of the celestial bodies and the Earth. This is a very early depiction of the Earth as a sphere with tall buildings radially shown pointing upward into space with the sun and clouds on the day side and the moon and stars on the night side of the Earth.  Today’s ArtDrop is “A Ton of Tea” by Chinese activist artist Ai Wei Wei. He made this work of compressed pu-erh tea in 2007.
The image shows a one cubic ton block of compressed tea on a low natural wood base. Can you imagine how fragrant this artwork is? |
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