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-...

👁️ 👁️ 👁️ standing like a sentinel at the fringe of its thicket our 'Bardic Birch' keeps watch over the Vale (in the dawn or dusk half- light, those eyes seem to fix you with benign scrutiny) #landscape #photography from #Eryri #Moelwyns #folklore

“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

'A Relic for Kazimir Malevich' (new work photograph ©2025) #art #photography

the Vale taking delivery of our 1st instalment of winter with a light dusting of snow on the #Moelwyns peaks & temperatures more like the average for mid-November bright'n'fresh'n'bracing at 8:30 a.m ⛰️ #landscape #photography from #Eryri

Remy has written about Gustav Klimt's tree #paintngs 🌳 medium.com/signifier/kl... ...& the iconic poster favourite, 'The Kiss' 😘 medium.com/signifier/th... #art #ArtHistory #history #illustration

the #fungi fiesta in our local woods reaching its finale 🍄 with a variety of mushrooms recycling deadwood & bringing new life

"unusual for a woman to make it as an artist at that time but her own father said that she painted beauties more skilfully than himself ... he was Katsushika Hokusai" 'Hokusai’s Daughter' by @kimvertue.bsky.social 🏮 medium.com/signifier/ho... #Japan #art #ArtHistory #history #illustration #イラスト

Claude Monet #BOTD 1840 Once reviled, now revered, his famous #paintings of Water Lilies reflect on the tragedy of war, express a hope for peace, & celebrate the joy of creation 🖌️ @kimvertue.bsky.social looks beyond the surface of Monet’s Final Masterworks of #art 🪷 medium.com/signifier/fo...

glad to see 'The War Between Land & Sea' miniseries has been rescheduled back to this year - starts 7 December, BBC1 - not quite the Christmas Special we're used to but something to help fill the #DoctorWho gap... still not sure about the new 'Sea Devils' 🌊 www.doctorwho.tv/news-and-fea... ⛰️

Illumined Thinking — Bright Ideas from the Bauhaus @remydean.bsky.social remembers the first product from the Bauhaus as a sort of introduction, in itself, to what the influential design school were all about... 💡 medium.com/signifier/il... #art #design #history #ArtHistory

#RemyReviews 'Shogun’s Samurai' aka 'The Yagyū Clan Conspiracy' (1978) Kinji Fukasaku's impossibly intricate & enthralling 'Shadow History' saga of devious samurai powerplay my #movie #review of the newly restored #Bluray @framerated.co.uk ⚔️ medium.com/framerated/s... #Japan #cinema #history

Are Ziggy Stardust & Thomas Jerome Newton the same person? Such parallels landed David Bowie a starring role in 'The Man Who Fell to Earth' (1976) @remydean.bsky.social discusses how two iconic personae fused multimedia fictions in a Pop Art cycle of creative feedback ⚡ medium.com/signifier/wh...

‘Tis the season for #DarkMatter 🎃 Today’s #PhotoOfTheWeek highlights Halloween Jack-o'-lanterns in the ATLAS Control Room. One pumpkin features a schematic of the @atlasexperiment.bsky.social, and the other a dark-matter candidate event display.

🖼️ 🫟 🪟 A Small Thing But My Own @kimvertue.bsky.social looks back on the technicolour emotions of Howard Hodgkin & how daubs of vivid colour & elusive forms represent intangible feelings about solid reality 💎 medium.com/signifier/a-... #art #painting #ArtHistory #illustration #GraphicDesign

🔥 🧨 🎆 remember. remember... 'Fireworks at Ryōgoku Bridge' (c.1858) from Utagawa Hiroshige's 'One Hundred Famous Views of Edo' learn about the artist's 'Road to Fame' in our article by @kimvertue.bsky.social 💥 medium.com/signifier/hi... #art #ArtHistory #illustration #イラスト #fireworks

...it's a #fungi fiesta in our local woods🍄 a couple more 'architectural' mushrooms

💀 🦇 👻 & another classic go-to #horror #movie for #Halloween🏰 'Catacombs' (1988) "promises everything one expects from #classic #Italian horror in the style of Bava, Fulci & Argento..." my #movie #review @framerated.co.uk 🕸️ medium.com/framerated/c...

cool group photo & I urge any of my pals 'down under' to catch the tour if it comes to a venue near you 🎶

Just scraped in with my last few ratings before Halloween deadline & as usual, some great short films this year🎬 I look forward to seeing if the judging panel agree with my recommendations again 👻 Notifications go out 30th November so, best of luck to all who submitted their Twisted mini-movies 🙀

it's #fungi season in the Eurozone so time to revisit: 'Beatrix Potter’s Field Studies' 🐸 @kimvertue.bsky.social on the #art & #science of a pioneering mycologist better known as the beloved children’s #author & #illustrator 🍄 medium.com/signifier/po... #illustration #fungi #history #ArtHistory

💧 'David Hockney: Making a Splash with the Bigger Picture' @kimvertue.bsky.social dives into the large-scale, immersive #art of the people’s painter who continues to please with new work more than six decades later… 💦 medium.com/signifier/da... #painitng #ArtHistory #history #photography

'Sana' (2023) is part 1 of Takashi Shimizu's enjoyable #JHorror #GhostStory duology "a slow build to some expertly delivered jump scares & a few very creepy moments" - now streaming @arrowvideo.bsky.social player read my #horror #movie #review @framerated.co.uk 🎶 medium.com/framerated/s... #Japan

⚔️ 🐲 🐻 'Sutton Hoo, a Great Warrior’s Treasure' @kimvertue.bsky.social uncovers mystique and myth surrounding Britain's most significant Anglo-Saxon ship burial and its surprisingly sophisticated artefacts ⛏️ medium.com/signifier/su... #art #design #ArtHistory #history

Waku-waku! 💥 'SPY x FAMILY' S.3 assignment imminent 🐧 💗 youtu.be/5ASJJI_RkiA?...

👞 🩰 👢 'Whose Shoes?' @remydean.bsky.social takes us on a quick-step through some shoe symbolism in #art & #culture along the path from innocence to experience... from #FairyTales to #horror films 👠 medium.com/signifier/wh... #art #ArtHistory #shoes #illustration #イラスト #fashion #movies #history

bright & crisp with a definite autumnal feel today as we approach equinox - the wet leaves gleaming & the saturated green vibrant in sunbeams slowly sweeping slopes... [pic 2 p.m] 🌤️ #landscape #photography #Moelwyns #Eryri

just watched 'Elio' - highly imaginative, fun, with an emotional core. Liked the alien ambassadors, reminded me of a game I played as a child where I would show an alien (made of Blu Tack) around our wonderous everyday world... here's a #movie #review @framerated.co.uk 🛸 medium.com/framerated/e...

🕰️ 🐜 🦜 'Do You Know What’s Really Surreal?' …and do you know your Veristic #Surrealism from your Automatist or Organic? @remydean.bsky.social offers a brief introduction to the first major movement in Postmodern #art 👁️ medium.com/signifier/a0... #ArtHistory #history #painting #sculpture #movies

'Hiroshige’s Road to Fame' @kimvertue.bsky.social takes us on a journey through some of 'The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō' exquisite woodblock prints by the popular Edo Era #artist who inspired Vincent van Gogh & influenced the American Modern style medium.com/signifier/hi... #Japan #art

🍊 🦜 🍌 🕊️ 'Frida Kahlo’s Vibrant Still Life - celebrating the love of life in the shadow of hardship' @kimvertue.bsky.social discusses Frida's later paintings as colourful proclamations of hope, spirituality, & freedom 💐 medium.com/signifier/fr... #art #ArtHistory #painting #Mexico #history

'Pokémon Concierge' S.2 just dropped @netflix.com Loved 1st season, so will avoid binge watch & let this lovely stop-frame #anime from Dwarf Studios unfold at its own pace (Hint: love to see more 'Rilakkuma & Kaoru', too) Glad that Psyduck is prominent again 🐥 www.netflix.com/gb/title/811...

'Ferrous Friend or Foe?' @remydean.bsky.social Discusses How Iron Became the Enemy of Fairy Folk and Forged a Path of Technological Competition… medium.com/signifier/fe... #folklore #history #illustration #archaeology

👰 🥣 🐩 'A Peasant Wedding' @kimvertue.bsky.social finds a narrative in the details of this snapshot of a lively summer wedding reception… painted by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, in 1567 medium.com/signifier/a-... #art #ArtHistory #history #painting

@remydean.bsky.social reviewed PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK for its 50th anniversary www.framerated.co.uk/picnic-hangi...

new 'Pokémon Concierge' 🏝️ coming 4 September, Netflix "Onward to a brand new day!" stoked (in a calm yet colourfully feel-good kinda way) for S.2! youtu.be/AzL8NUUgwdc?...

"Surrealists thought of themselves as revolutionary & later went on to demand that art be ‘magical’ & should transcend both religion & politics... driven by the desire to make our private realities public… to make art that questioned & ultimately transcend 'reality'..." medium.com/signifier/do...

The Conversation continue to add articles to their #Moomin80 celebrations - 80 years of the kindly, inclusive troll family & friends... 🎩 theconversation.com/topics/moomi...

As it's International Pineapple Day 🍍 @kimvertue.bsky.social celebrates this tropical fruit through history along with its influence on arts & culture 🍍 medium.com/signifier/pi... #art #design #history #botany #horticulture #ArtHistory

👑 🌎 🌊 'Brave New Queen' July 1588, the Spanish Armada engages the British Navy... @kimvertue.bsky.social looks at the Armada Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I as a proclamation of power ⚪ medium.com/signifier/br... #painting #art #history #ArtHistory

On Medium, @remydean.bsky.social reviewed THE QUATERMASS XPERIMENT Blu-ray from @hammerfilms.bsky.social medium.com/framerated/t...

short preview of #exhibition by #artist Motoi Yamamoto at Tokyo's YUKIKOMIZUTANI gallery includes new work & one of his incredibly intricate & delicate salt installations youtu.be/j_QvPOSfyg0?... +more at artist's website: www.motoi-works.com/en/about +gallery: yukikomizutani.com/exhibitions/

"Yaorenmao made use of the new technologies to bring together multimedia creative elements & fresh narrative threads that tied together an array of subcultures — thus bringing them into the mainstream under the broad banner of #Kawaii..." - read 'Home Dance & The Biting Cat' via link in post ⬇️

Limited Edition 4K Ultra HD Arrow Video #Bluray 'Dark City' (1998) 🕛 Gothic-noir-science-fiction-psychological-crime-mystery with profound subtext presented in its original theatrical version & the superior Director's Cut read my 5⭐ #movie #review @framerated.co.uk 🎞️ medium.com/framerated/d...

🔶 🟩 🔷 'Magician of the Earth, Esther Mahlangu' @kimvertue.bsky.social on how the South Ndebele #artist turned her traditional house #painting into Modern #Art & contemporary #design: 🚘 medium.com/signifier/ma...

"the artist known as Flower Brueghel pioneered the genre of flower still life, highlighting nature’s beauty rather than using flowers within a larger painting as decoration or symbol" @kimvertue.bsky.social on the meticulous botanical studies of Jan Brueghel the Elder 💐 medium.com/signifier/ve...

A Handful of Dust: The Explosive Quiet of Cornelia Parker @kimvertue.bsky.social considers the poetic practice of artist Cornelia Parker — listening for whispers of the past woven into the threads of British history… medium.com/signifier/a-...

Reputedly, in 1797, John Hetherington was the first man brave, or foolhardy, enough to wear a Top Hat. He was arrested and appeared in court for wearing upon his head, “a tall structure having a shining lustre calculated to frighten timid people." 🎩 medium.com/signifier/th...