“Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.” – Pablo Picasso

Wikipedia article of the day is House of Music. Check it out: https://ift.tt/3hJKxAI Summary: House of Music is the fourth and final album by American R&B band Tony! Toni! Toné!, released in 1996 by Mercury Records. Bassist-vocalist Raphael Saadiq (pictured), guitarist-vocalist D’wayne Wiggins, and percussionist-keyboardist Timothy Christian Riley worked on its songs independently before recording […]

Deep shadows create dramatic contrasts between light and dark in this high-resolution close-up of the martian surface. Recorded on January 24, 2014 by the HiRISE camera on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the scene spans about 1.5 kilometers. From 250 kilometers above the Red Planet the camera is looking down at a sand dune field […]

Wikipedia picture of the day on August 29, 2020: Oderbruch, near Siekierki in Poland https://ift.tt/3b7f49p

This Hubble Space Telescope image depicts a small section of the Cygnus supernova blast wave, the result of the “death” of a star 20 times more massive than our Sun 10,000 to 20,000 years ago. Light from this supernova takes around 2,400 years to reach Earth. via wordpress https://wp.me/p4wJUi-7fX

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This exciting and unfamiliar view of the Orion Nebula is a visualization based on astronomical data and movie rendering techniques. Up close and personal with a famous stellar nursery normally seen from 1,500 light-years away, the digitally modeled frame transitions from a visible light representation based on Hubble data on the left to infrared data […]

Wikipedia picture of the day on August 28, 2020: View of Warsaw from the terrace of the Royal Castle (1773). Painting (oil on canvas) by Bernardo Bellotto (1722–1780). https://ift.tt/3hOlOvr

“We have art in order not to die of the truth.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

Wikipedia article of the day is Commissioner Government. Check it out: https://ift.tt/31I2s5z Summary: The Commissioner Government was a short-lived Serbian collaborationist puppet government established in the German-occupied territory of Serbia during World War II from 30 April to 29 August 1941. It was headed by Milan Aćimović (pictured) and was pro-German, anti-Semitic and anti-communist. The Aćimović government was […]