'The Sentence is Life' @remydean.bsky.social on rereading the deceptively simple yet fascinatingly ‘ekphrastic’ Word Art of Louis Camnitzer "Many of his text works read like Zen kōans & can create a conundrum in the mind of the viewer..." 🗺️ medium.com/signifier/th... #art #ArtHistory #poetry

'Andrea Appiani Against Neoclassicism' Michele Vigorita ponders a paradox: the Emperor’s painter is at his best precisely when he stops serving the Empire. ✏️ medium.com/signifier/ap... #art #ArtHistory #painting #drawing #history

The Laws of Babylon directed that "the monarch be at all times benevolent & easily accessible to all citizens & duty-bound to protect the weak against oppression by the strong, no matter how high-place the oppressor" Babylon, Ancient Champion of Equality? 🦁 medium.com/signifier/ba... #art #history

'A Revolutionary Masterpiece' "This iconographic choice is completely unprecedented for a biblical representation..." Samuel Belleville-Douelle on how Donatello’s David changed art & our perception of the ancient King 👑 medium.com/signifier/da... #art #ArtHistory #sculpture #history #mythology

🥧 👑 🍪 'Choco l’art': what do mutton pies, a new format for portraits, the protestant monarchy of England, poster art, & chocolate snack bars have in common? - @remydean.bsky.social finds out: 🍫 medium.com/signifier/ch... #art #design #food #history #FoodSky

'Ericofon, Calling the Future' ...the first one-piece telephone on the market embodied expectations for a brighter future @remydean.bsky.social appreciates a twentieth-century ‘design icon' & is colourful retro-futurist chic... ☎️ medium.com/signifier/er... #design #history

"Takao Tanabe’s return to the West Coast meant a dramatic shift in subject matter as he focused on the familiar environment of magnificent, misty vistas..." 'We’ve Both Been There, in the Silence' by Rodrigo S-C 🌄 medium.com/signifier/we... #art #ArtHistory #ContemporaryArt #landscape

🌿 🌼 🍀 "Have you ever sat in the grass of a summer meadow, perhaps as a child, to make a daisy chain, or to examine a cricket singing? Only to be mesmerised by the many plants & flowers flourishing together at your feet?" 🌱 medium.com/signifier/to... #art #ArtHistory #botany #illustration

'Leonardo da Vinci, the Way of Water' "water fascinated Leonardo & it’s believed his first #drawing was of water" @kimvertue.bsky.social explores how aesthetics & mechanics flow together in the work of the great Renaissance #artist who was Master of Water for Florence 💦 medium.com/signifier/le...

Westwood Bound @remydean.bsky.social on how Vivienne Westwood popularised underwear-as-outer-wear involving corsets, bustiers, codpieces, crinolines & re-assigned British upper-class signifiers with costumes featuring Harris Tweeds, tartans, pinstripes 👗 medium.com/signifier/we... #fashion #art

"skeletons play the shamisen, smoke kiseru & play go… Jigoku Dayu, the courtesan snoozes contentedly, her beauty & popularity no different in this world or in hell." @mitsukinonaka.bsky.social explores Kawanabe Kyōsai’s Memento Mori 💀 medium.com/signifier/ha... #Japan #illustration #イラスト #art

🌿 🌄 🍂 'Nouveau or Deco? What’s the Difference?' @remydean.bsky.social explains: "Well, there’s a simple answer that lacks accuracy & an accurate answer that’s not that simple..." 🌷 medium.com/signifier/no... #art #design #history #イラスト #illustration #ArtHistory

🍶 🍊 🫖 "In my decade as a fine art catalogue photographer, I have photographed hundreds of still lifes. Mostly, they failed to excite me, I could not connect, so I tended to dismiss them outright." Rodrigo S-C ponders 'Is Still Life Still Relevant?' 🏺 medium.com/signifier/st... 🖼️Joe Plaskett⬇️

💃 🌸 🦇 🦈 🎉 🍾 Happy Birthday 🎂 #KyaryPamyuPamyu 💐 her #music never gets old either 🫶 here's a perennial favourite: 'Harajuku Iyahoi'🪵 & my extended article celebrating her prolific career @signifier.bsky.social 🍭 medium.com/signifier/ta... 🎶 youtu.be/mAGyQ5Rmz7o?... #きゃりーぱみゅぱみゅ #KPP #fashion #art

'What the Impressionists Saw' - the #art of making the private public & the unremarkable remarkable @kimvertue.bsky.social selects three #paintings of women to explore the interconnectivity & shared influences of the Impressionists 🎨 medium.com/signifier/wh...

Jonathan Meades: 'Treyfs and Artknacks' was our online #art #exhibition for January 2023 in The Signifier : six : shot : gallery 6️⃣ medium.com/the-signifie... #ContemporaryArt #landscape #photography #art

This guys. Japanese Sustainable Forestry is next level. They harvest new growth off the old growth trees preserving the soil and special biome of the trees. bsky.app/profile/sign...

"...a narrative very much of its moment that still poses questions to us in the C21st about our attitudes to advancements in #science" @kimvertue.bsky.social watches the birdie in Joseph Wright of Derby's stunning yet perplexing #painting 🦜 medium.com/signifier/wa... #art #ArtHistory #history

'Do You Speak Design?' design language is the intrinsic information physically expressed in the form of the designed object but not all designers have used it as fluently as Wells Coates did… @remydean.bsky.social translates: medium.com/signifier/do...

🛩️ 🧈 🐝 'Fat & Felt, Fact or Folklore' meat, peat, blood, bees, barbeques, basalt, sleds, coyotes, horses, hares, lemons... @remydean.bsky.social on Joseph Beuys & the healing process of remythologising the post-war European psyche 🪑 medium.com/signifier/fa... #art #ArtHistory #history #folklore

'The Nymphs & Satyrs of Bouguereau' "Local moralists protested, scared about the effect such a lude pagan image was having on the ladies it attracted & perhaps the fact it had been bought & hung by a convicted murderer" @remydean.bsky.social uncovers an #art mystery 🐐 medium.com/signifier/th...

🎥 🐎 🚀 'It’s Still Moving' - before #film could become an #art medium, technology had to be invented & the conventions of #cinema set-out @remydean.bsky.social looks back to the first 'motion pictures' 🎞️ medium.com/signifier/it... #movies #ArtHistory #design #history #photography

#InternationalChoreographersDay 🕺 "So, how does one know if it’s #HomeDance? As styles are so varied & there are no rules... @remydean.bsky.social gives us a few pointers of what to look for in a performance..." 💃 medium.com/signifier/ho... 🧸 #咬人猫 😸 #Dance 🩰 #Music 🎶 #Yaorenmao 💝 #宅舞

love the poster 🐩 betting the #exhibition is well worth a visit for those in the #Tokyo area 🎀 #illustration #イラスト #animals #music #dogs #art

🧛 ⚰️ 🦇 'Visualising #Vampires The Undead in Art & Culture' OliviA considers some ancient & modern representations that influenced our perception of these bloodthirsty fiends 🩸 medium.com/signifier/vi... #art #ArtHistory #horror #history #illustration #movies

🎨 💦 🏜️ 'David Hockney’s Photographic Art' Rodrigo S-C explores how Britain's favourite #artist, often cited as “the greatest living painter,” changed photography & influenced his own work... 🛑 medium.com/signifier/he... #photography #art #ArtHistory

The Bread is the Life: Many artists have used the humble loaf of bread to speak of survival, cultural identity, transcendent spirit @kimvertue.bsky.social considers this staple source of sustenance with a particular focus on Salvador Dali's bread-based obsession 🍞 medium.com/signifier/th... #art

'First Photographer of the American West' @remydean.bsky.social celebrates Carlton Watkins & the pioneering photographers of the virgin territories who nurtured a desire to conserve the natural beauty of America’s majestic West 🌄 medium.com/signifier/fi... #landscape #photography #art #History

'First Photographer of the American West' @remydean.bsky.social celebrates Carlton Watkins & the pioneering photographers of the virgin territories who nurtured a desire to conserve the natural beauty of America’s majestic West 🌄 medium.com/signifier/fi... #landscape #photography #art #History

🐇 🐇 🐇 Happy New Year 🥂 Best Wishes for 2026! 🚀 #landscape #photography from #Eryri

⚔️ 🍺 🐲 'Beowulf versus Grendel, the Rematch!' @remydean.bsky.social traces the long legacy of our earliest novel & asks, “Was Grendel wrongly vilified?” medium.com/signifier/be... #literature #folklore #fantasy #illustration #comics

🎄 🦞 🎅 "Suddenly #Christmas was a tradition & the 1st British Christmas card was sent in 1843 by Henry Cole..." 'Tis the Season to be Surreal - Surrealists will celebrate all around the world & you could be one of them, explains @remydean.bsky.social ⭐ medium.com/signifier/ti... #illustration

'A Horse for Andrei Tarkovsky' (photograph ©2015) #art #landscape #photography #snow #horse

Selected #art writing from the Signifier team: transgressive stained glass, mothers' love, still life, living life long, ghosts, #illustration, collage, #kawaii culture & Remy on Remy + more! Our Winter #Solstice 2025 🎄 Newsletter has dispatched! Are you Signified? medium.com/signifier/a-...

🎄 🎀 🎅 'Seasonal Sentimentality' A quick look at the visual culture of commercial #Christmas in search of the most reproduced popular image… not an easy answer. What's your best guess? 🎁 medium.com/signifier/wh... #art #design #illustration

our editor & curator suggests some readings of his writings mainly on #art #movies & #culture 🎨 🎬🌸

this is a wonderful thread for those who love #cats & #art

“Creatures” #art by Zel Cariad was our December 2023 #exhibition in The Signifier : six : shot : gallery : 6️⃣ medium.com/the-signifie... #ContemporaryArt #animals #folklore #illustration #イラスト

📖 🛶 🐈 I learnt a few new words from this excellent article by @mitsukinonaka.bsky.social about artist-illustrator Edward Gorey. One of them was 'ailurophilia'. an ideal read for #Caturday via @signifier.bsky.social 🐾 medium.com/signifier/mi... #illustration #イラスト #art #ArtHistory #BookSky

...especially relevant this time of year🤶 'Mother & Child in Devotional Art' Our most ancient art celebrates motherhood & birth @remydean.bsky.social ponders some iconic visual representations of parenting 🎄 medium.com/signifier/mo... #art #ArtHistory #history #Christmas

'Mirth & Misfortune, the Art of Edward Gorey' — Of Ailurophilia, Absonant Alphabets & Noegenetic Numbers @mitsukinonaka.bsky.social explores a world filled with cruel tales but finds many are filled with compassion & a sense of kindly concern 😼 medium.com/signifier/mi... #イラスト #art #illustration

🎄 🦞 🎅 "Suddenly #Christmas was a tradition & the 1st British Christmas card was sent in 1843 by Henry Cole..." 'Tis the Season to be Surreal - Surrealists will celebrate all around the world & you could be one of them, explains @remydean.bsky.social ⭐ medium.com/signifier/ti... #illustration

'Princess of Polka Dots, Yayoi Kusama' @kimvertue.bsky.social explores the relationship between the individual & the infinite through the work of one of Japan's globally renowned artists… medium.com/signifier/pr... ⬇️ #art & #ArtHistory that looks kinda Christmassy🎄

🌌 🎨 🌀 ‘Starry Night — Vincent’s Key-work?' @remydean.bsky.social reads this poetic rendering of the relationship between the inner soul and the vast heavens as another of Van Gogh's self-portraits. ✨ medium.com/signifier/st... #art #ArtHistory #painting

“Wisdom Engines: Technologies for Evolution & Happiness” #art by Tanya P Johnson was our December 2022 #exhibition in The Signifier : six : shot : gallery : 6️⃣ medium.com/the-signifie... #ContemporaryArt #painting #illustration #イラスト

❄️ 🦃 🎄 " #Thanksgiving & #Christmas & other mid-winter traditions tend to dwell on reminiscences, thinking about the ancestors, honouring & celebrating their 'olde-world' customs. So, the nostalgia-saturated images of Grandma Moses are a perfect fit." medium.com/signifier/wh... #illustration #art

'Forever Autumn' 🍂 @kimvertue.bsky.social appreciates how the famous painting of an autumn scene by John Everett Millais poetically captures a moment of transient beauty medium.com/signifier/fo...

'Media Theory 101: Ancient Origins with Aristotle' Do you know how #media work & what they are doing to you & society? The first in a series of occasional articles by @remydean.bsky.social expanding our media-related content: medium.com/signifier/me... #ArtHistory #Writing #History #art

'Where We Used to Play' (photograph) used as the cover image for the short story collection 'The Race Glass' (2014) & first shown in 2013 as part of my 'Cof Brosesu ... Processed Memory' #exhibition - a selection from which recently featured @signifier.bsky.social : medium.com/the-signifie... #art