art & prose
milos bhat

aRT

Pufferfish Artwork

older than prefrontal cortical thought

Puffer Fish

to you brought

by the artist-engineer
of the oceans
Leonardo da Puffer Fish

with patience playfully in sand wrought

art
classical thought sought

Head of a Ruler. An ancient sculpture

Head of a Ruler
Iran or Mesopotamia, 2300-2000BCE. Copper Alloy
Now at the MET

https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/47.100.80

Gudea of Lagaš

Gudea of Lagaš
Girsu, Mesopotomia, circa 2120BCE. Diorit.
Now at the Louvre.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gudea#/media/File:Gudea_of_Lagash_Girsu.jpg

Bust of Nefertiti

Bust of Nefertiti
Tell el Amarna,18.Dynasty, 1345BCE. Limestone, Stucco.
Now in Neues Musuem, Berlin.

P.Pikart.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nefertiti_Bust# /media/File:Nofretete_Neues_Museum.jpg

Hermes and infant Dionysus

Attributed to Praxiteles.
Hermes bearing the infant Dionysus.

Circa 400BCE or if copy circa 200BCE. Parian Marble
Archaeological Museum of Olympia, Greece.

Tetraktys.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermes_and_the_Infant_Dionysus
#/media/File:Hermes_and_the_infant_Dionysus_by_Praxiteles.jpg

Vitruvian Man

Da Vinci. Vitruvian Man
Circa 1492 CE, Milan. Ink on paper.
Currently at Galleria dell'Accademia, Venice.

Luc Viatour.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitruvian_Man.
https://lucnix.be/

art
consumer culture convincingly taught

Fountain by Marcel Duchamp

Fountain by Marcel Duchamp.

Readymade _ a porcelain urinal, 1917.
Image(amended):
Alfred Stiglitz's silver gelatin print. 1917.

Public Domain.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Duchamp_Fountaine.jpg


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