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created: 2015-06-24
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"They present us with a variety of brilliant hues, often of the greatest purity, and combined in striking contrast and conspicuous patterns. Their use depends upon their boldness and visibility, not on the presence of any one color. Hence we find among these groups some of the most exquisitely-colored objects in nature... Conspicuousness being useful, every variation tending to brighter and purer colors was selected."

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Gordon Wood's Proust
1 points | 0 comments
Why are there so many canines in fine art?
19 points | 30 comments
On the nature of autobiographical memory
22 points | 4 comments
What Did the Hudson River School Painters See?
11 points | 4 comments
The Melancholy of Slaying Monsters
298 points | 145 comments
The Prophecies of the Brahan Seer (1877)
1 points | 0 comments
How Much of the Internet Is AI Slop?
6 points | 0 comments
Octonous Open Beta: What We've Learned and Where We're Going
4 points | 0 comments
Pyramid of the Capitalist System (1911)
5 points | 0 comments
Wolfgang Koeppen's Structural Musicality
11 points | 0 comments
Little magazines are back
113 points | 40 comments
Ben Lerner's Big Feelings
43 points | 22 comments
The Soviet Network
2 points | 0 comments
Doing Impressions: Monet's Early Caricatures (ca. late 1850s)
51 points | 1 comments
'True Color' Review: Not-So-Black-and-White
1 points | 0 comments
The loneliness of A Room of One’s Own
58 points | 16 comments
Out of Light Adjust Share: Caravaggio, La Tour, and the Art of Attention
33 points | 5 comments
Sekka Zusetsu: A Book of Snowflakes (1832)
42 points | 4 comments
Typing for Love or Money: The Hidden Labor Behind Modern Literary Masterpieces
41 points | 13 comments
Make Nothing That Isn't Beautiful
4 points | 1 comments
Back to Bellevue
15 points | 2 comments
The hunt for a stolen Jackson Pollock
29 points | 4 comments
Where Have All the Pithiatics Gone?
2 points | 0 comments
Varnish and Virtue
8 points | 0 comments
Outward Signs of Inner Mysteries
18 points | 1 comments
The Oddest Couple in American Literature: Part II
6 points | 1 comments
Terrence Malick's Disciples
97 points | 29 comments
A centennial look back at Edward Gorey's macabre art and guarded life
30 points | 6 comments
Medieval Moons
3 points | 0 comments