You can't but truly admire Elon Musk and his staff at Tesla for what they have achieved so far and express every confidence in them resolving these challenges.Switching the fuel has been on the research agenda since the 1950es but it is still very difficult, in spite of millions of people dying from the health issues associated with auto carbon exhaust every year.Tesla is like an Apple, but in a sedate traditional industry that is full of roadblocks to development.W...

Mike McCormick fingers not only to the current National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, known for his role in the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan and the failure to deter Putin from invading Ukraine. But what if Jake Sullivan "failed" on purpose to ensure new huge contracts and commissions on the military help to Ukraine?McCormick claims that many other "Obama officials" and maybe Obama himself is connected to the corruption schemes. Obama certainly has become very rich after h...

Roma or Gypsies have fascinated artists for centuries. The portrayal of Romanies have not always been favourable. It developed from poster like warnings over romantic props in landscape painting over to deeper ethnographic depictions. Some modern artists show deep compassion and love while others again veer to using them as props for their own purposes.On 15-17 May 2023 there was the third World Roma Congress in Berlin in Germany. The purpose was to hear complaints and draft a new ...

Hokusai's 53 Stations of the Tōkaidō 1804 Vertical is something completely different from his 1801 and 1802 series and from the 1804 horizontal.It is different from his famous 36 Views of Mt Fuji 1832, which are sublime artistic expressions distilling a long life's work.This series shows his development of the themes based on the two first series, 1801 and 1802, and a transition to his 1804 horizontal series, which again is a precursor to his sublime 36 Views of Mt Fuji.

Hokusai's 53 Stations of the Tōkaidō 1806 Horizontal is the last known full Tokaido series by Hokusai.It is different from his famous 36 Views of Mt Fuji, which are sublime artistic expressions distilling a long life's work.It is different from much of Hokusai's other well known work, like his 100 Views of Mt Fuji. But in that series Hokusai still retained a lot of the humor and the caricature found here.It is different from the many other well known 53 Stations of ...

Viewing Osaka through the series 100 Views of Naniwa (Osaka) is an amazing experience. It is a well executed repetition over a format by Hiroshige. Some add a "Famous" to the title.This series is by three artists, Utagawa Yoshitaki, Utagawa Kunikazu and Nansuitei Yoshiyuki.Hiroshige I created his revolutionary series 100 Famous Views of Edo over three years, 1856-1859.This led to the publishing of copy series 100 Views of Naniwa (Osaka) by other artists. The book he...

Nikolay Vladislavovich Bessonov was born in 1962 and died in 2013 in Moscow. He has a higher art education (MVHPU).Bessonov painted wonderful, romantic paintings of Roma (Gypsies). Roma in art is a different story altogether, a subject we hope to take up later.Another line of his paintings was for a book about Medieval witch persecution, with gruesome pictures of mostly beautiful women coming into trouble.The authors came into contact with Bessonov in connection wit...

Utagawa Hiroshige's two Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji series, 1852 and 1858, are both a copy act and in themselves innovative artistic endeavors.Katsushika Hokusai published his famous series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji in 1830-1832 and it influenced Hiroshige tremendously to do his own series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji series 1852, and 1858, which we deal with here.Hiroshige shifted to the vertical portrait format with novel and interesting results. It is in the sa...

This series, Fifty-three Pairings of the Tokaido Road, Tōkaidō gojūsan tsui, 東海道五十三対,popularly called Pairs Tōkaidō or 53 Parallels for the Tokaido Road, was published in 1845-1846.It is a unique cooperation between three artists: Utagawa Hiroshige, Utagawa Kunisada and Utagawa Kuniyoshi and five publishers: Ibaya Kyūbei, (Ibaya Senzaburô (Dansendô)) and Kojimaya Jûbei, Enshûya Matabei, Ebiya Rinnosuke (Kaijudô) and Iseya Ichibei.The special feature of this "Pairs Tōkaidō" ...

The Aritaya Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road, Tōkaidō gojūsan tsugi no uchi, 東海道五十三次之内, is one of the most beautiful of Hiroshige's huge production of landscape print series in spite of its small size. It is only abt 10 x 15 cm (with variations), Yotsugiri yokoban (quarter ōban).It is also unusual in that it is a veritable full course and manual in landscape print design. It is a very rewarding study.All the way through Hiroshige follows certain design principles of...

Come on the journey from Edo, modern day Tokyo, to Kyoto, as experienced by Utagawa Hiroshige in, when he travelled the road to participate in an important procession in 1832.There were 53 post stations along this important road, apart from the start and terminus, in all 55 prints, which are all here in the order from Edo to Kyoto, In the Hoeidō edition (1833-34).This was the most popular print series ever made in Japan. It was even more popular than Hokusai's series Thirty...

Hokusai's 53 Stations of the Tōkaidō 1804 horizontal is something completely different from his first square edition 1801 and second edition 1802.Hokusai completely changes his style compared to the three previous series, 1801, 1802 and 1804 vertical.These designs are "clean" and a precursor for his famous 36 Views of Mt Fuji some 30 years later.In this series Hokusai focus on wonderful folkloric scenes of ordinary people going about their work, in addition to the t...