I think one of the healthiest things a person can do is become easy to delight. To still stop for weird clouds and dogs wearing bandanas and the smell of garlic cooking somewhere down the street. The world already has enough cynicism. Be the person who still points at the moon.
Claude Mellan's Face of Christ, also known as The Sudarium of Saint Veronica (1649), is one of the most technically extraordinary works in art history...
The entire portrait is rendered using a single, continuous spiralling line that begins at the tip of Christ's nose and expands outward to the edges of the cloth.
Mellan achieved the illusion of depth, shadow, and facial features without any cross-hatching or traditional shading. Instead, he precisely varied the thickness and pressure of the burin (his engraving tool) as he rotated the copper plate, creating "swelling" lines that darken the image where needed.
The spiralling line is estimated to be approximately 150m (about 500ft) long if it were stretched out.
This is hands down the best book on writing I have read. Mine is fully of margin notes.
It uses examples in notable writing to explain how sentence structure is a tool to convey emotion, meaning, etc.
No one believes me when I say this, but the decline in reading is already having dire consequences for art & culture. The media you loved in your youthβshows, albums, filmsβwas made by artists who were widely read. You will not have that quality of art in a post-literate world.
How this isnβt an immediate impeach and remove from office situation blows my mind. There isnβt a word invented in the English language for this level of pure corruption. This country is fucking cooked.