I just discovered the social surrealism of Irving Norman and...this guy needs a much wider audience.
There was NOBODY painting like this in postwar america. We need his ferocious vision today.
https://t.co/V5FWIQLWEe
Hattie McDaniel accepting her Oscar in a segregated "No Blacks" hotel in Los Angeles for her role in Gone with the Wind. She is the first Black American to win an Oscar. (1939)
Viennese Jugendstil from 1900 as published in Austrian magazine "Das Interieur": "Architect Josef Urban, Ladies’ salon for the castle of Count Karl Eszterházy in St. Abraham near Diószeg (Hungary)." Diószeg is the Hungarian name for today’s town of Sládkovičovo in Slovakia.
If anyone’s interested I’ve got a store on eBay now selling vintage studio pottery and also some art pieces, glass, and various other objects.
Link below ⬇️
La propuesta de Konstantin Melnikov para el concurso del edificio del Narkomtiazhprom (el Comisariado del Pueblo para la Industria Pesada) en 1934 es uno de los proyectos no construidos más fascinantes de la vanguardia soviética. Y estos dibujos, una ma-ra-vi-lla.
#arquitectura