OCEAN ART
ref. # 139a -'Naglfar' or 'the Argonauts' Anselm Kiefer
Anselm KIEFER is a storyteller. Books often feature, especially lead books like 'Naglfar'. On the topbook of 'Naglfar' rests a warship. Fingernail clippings imitate the lapping of the waves. The books refer to knowledge, but the material from which they are made raises questions. Are these literally weighty tomes whose knowledge is no longer accessible? Is knowlegde drowning in an ocean? And so is all knowledge corroding? After all the books are damaged.The title refers to the Icelandic saga of 'Naglfar' or 'nailship' used by mythological giants to sail to Midgard and to fight in Ragnarok, the ultimate destruction of the gods. With Kiefer the Viking ship becomes a contemporary warship. Because war is of all times."
©: phot Anselm Kiefer, text: 'the sea' exhibition in Ostend 23.10.2014, 9.4.2015 dezee-oostende.be
tags: #Argonauts #Mu.zee
252 OCEAN ART - gravure: Pieter Breughel, poem: John Masefield
A warship accompanied by a galley, print made by Frans Huys, after Pieter Brueghel the Elder, 1561 - 1565
"I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by;
And the wheel's kick and the wind's song and the white sail's shaking,
And a grey mist on the sea's face, and a grey dawn breaking,
I must go down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide
Is a wild call and a clear call that may no, be denied;
And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying,
And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying.
I must go down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life,
To the gull's way and the whale's way where the wind's like a whetted knife;
And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover,
And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's over."
© poem: John Masefield from 'Sea-Fever', in 'Salt-Water Ballads' (1902)
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by;
And the wheel's kick and the wind's song and the white sail's shaking,
And a grey mist on the sea's face, and a grey dawn breaking,
I must go down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide
Is a wild call and a clear call that may no, be denied;
And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying,
And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying.
I must go down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life,
To the gull's way and the whale's way where the wind's like a whetted knife;
And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover,
And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's over."
tags: John Masefield, poem
© engraving: the British Museum , Rijksmuseum CC0 1.0 Universeel (CC0 1.0) Publiek Domein Verklaring
tags: Pieter Breughel, British Museum
252a OCEAN ART - 'Three Caravels' by Pieter Breugel the Elder
Artist: Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Netherlandish, Breda (?) ca. 1525-1569 Brussels)
Artist: Frans Huys (Netherlandish, 1522-1562),
Publisher: Hieronymus Cock (Netherlandish, Antwerp ca. 1510-1570 Antwerp)
Date: 1561-65, Engraving and etching; first state of six, Dim.: 8 11/16 x 11 1/4 in. (22 x 28.6 cm)
© Metropolitan Museum of Art OASC
tags: Pieter Breughel, MET, caravel
*there is a facsimile of the full set of engravings published by www.fernandpouillon.com
252aa OCEAN ART - 'Man of War between two galleys' by Pieter Breugel the Elder
Location: Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Date: 1565
© see also first state of this engraving on Artnet.com www.artnet.com
Pieter Bruegel the Elder; A Man of War Between Two Armed Galleys (1st State), 1565; 8.75 x 11.5 in. (22.2 x 29.2 cm.)
tags: Pieter Breughel, man-of-was, galley
252b OCEAN ART - Cephalopoda
Cephalopods, animals commonly known as squid, cuttlefish, octopus, and nautilus. The giant squid is the largest of all mollusks. Most cephalopods are highly adapted for swimming. The body mass is very tall. There is no foot; the lower part of the body wall is drawn out to form a ring of arms, or tentacles, around the head. Only the nautilus has a complete external shell. They are an important food staple for many animals and for humans. The Book: Stillman, S. (1912). The Cephalopoda of the Hawaiian Islands. From Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries, vol. 32, 1912. The Artist: J.H. Emerton 'Eledone Verrugosa', class Cephalopoda
This class contains the cephalopods, animals commonly known as squid, cuttlefish, octopus, and nautilus. The giant squid is the largest of all mollusks. Most cephalopods are highly adapted for swimming. The body mass is very tall. There is no foot; the lower part of the body wall is drawn out to form a ring of arms, or tentacles, around the head. Among living cephalopods, only the nautilus (subclass Nautiloidea) has a complete external shell; extinct members of the subclass and the extinct ammonites (subclass Ammonoidea) had similar spiral shells. Members of the subclass Coleoidea (the squid, cuttlefish, and octopus), have an internal shell or no shell at all.
All cephalopods are carnivorous and possess a radula and powerful beaks. The nervous system and the sense of vision are highly developed. In most cephalopods the sexes are separate and reproduction requires copulation. Fertilization may occur inside or outside the mantle cavity. Cephalopods are worldwide in distribution and are found in all depths of the ocean. They are an important food staple for many animals, including humans.
© unknown
tags: Cephalopoda, squid
252c OCEAN ART - Battle of Sluis
Attributed to Aert Anthonisz. called van Antum (Antwerp 1580-1620 Amsterdam)
oil on canvas, 138,2 x 244,7cm, ex collection Rob Kattenburg, purchased by the National Maritime Museum, Amsterdam
©: Public Domain, info: www.robkattenburrg.nl
tags: Battle of Sluis, Maritime Museum Amsterdam, Rob van Kattenburg
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# 252d OCEAN ART -'Jonah cast into the Sea'
tags: Jonah, Wierix
252e OCEAN ART - 'Ship with armed soldiers'
Image taken from 'De re militari'. Originally published/produced in Italy; 15th century. Held and digitised by the British Library, reference 020255. imagesonline.bl.uk
©: British Library wikidata:Q23308. Accession number: Add. 24945, f.231v
tags: British Library
252f OCEAN ART - 'Guam and native boats'
Date: vers 1525 Unknown origin,
Description: Guam is an island in the western Pacific Ocean and is an organized, unincorporated territory of the United States. Guam is the largest and southernmost of the Mariana Islands (#040c).
Technique: Illuminated manuscript on vellum, 225 x 150 mm
Source: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Yale, New Haven / Nebeuzahl, Kenneth. Atlas de Christophe Colomb et des grandes découvertes. Paris: Bordas, 1991
©: image via Flickr: Image in Science and Art Project - Image and caption provided by: Marina López , CFCUL and Diogo Lourenço, FCUL/CFCUL
tags: guam, mariana,
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252g OCEAN ART - Ferdinandes Magalanes Lusitanus, plate 4 from "Americae Retectio"
Title 'Ferdinandes Magalanes Lusitanus', plate 4 from 'Americae Retectio' Object type Print. Date: 1580s. Medium: Engraving on off white laid paper. Current location: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum wikidata:Q1129820 Accession number: 1949-37-2
The galleon, from a etching by Flemish artist Jan van der Straet, would normally sail with its gun ports closed.
©: Google Art Project / Wikimedia
tags: Ferdinand Magalan, Jan van der Straet
252h OCEAN ART - 'Pretmakers in een mossel op zee'
(reversed) Version by Johann Theodor de Bry (1596) (Rijksmuseum.nl), "In de opengeklapte mosselschelp bevinden zich zestien figuren die muziek maken. Enkele vormen van liederlijk gedrag worden getoond: een priester omhelst een vrouw en een man braakt in het water. Een man maakt muziek op een haardijzer (treeft). In de boom zit een uil (symbool voor zotheid)"
text: Noordbrabants Museum
'Bosch's engraving 'Merrymakers Sailing in a Mussel Shell'depicts a motley group surrounding a table in a floating half-opened oyster shell Similar in its composition and subject matter to 'the Blue Ship', 'Merrymakers'expresses a bitter sarcastic view of coeval notions of love"
Google books 'the Theme of Music in Northern Renaissance Banquet Scenes'
©: current location: Prentenkabinet of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, this file from Wikimedia commons, see also #126
tags: m, rymake, , musselshell, oystershell, pieter van der heyden , Hieronymus Bosch, #126;, postcard;, mm
# 252i OCEAN ART - from Konstanz to Jeruzalem 1
text: bibliodessey.blogspot.nlSee also: PALMA the Younger, 'Crusading army attacks Constantinople' 252c
©: Badische Landesbibliotek Fotos: Beate Ehlig, Badische Landesbibliothek link: Another view: Konrad von Grünenberg - a package holiday in 1486 by Heinrich Hall on 14 May 2020
tags: Badische Landesbibliotek, Konrad von Gruenenberg
252j OCEAN ART - from Konstanz to Jeruzalem 2
"Im Jahre 1487 fertiggestellt, schildert die Reisebeschreibung tagebuchartig eine typische Pilgergesellschaftsreise nach Jerusalem, an der Konrad von Grünenberg von April bis November 1486 teilnahm.
Kulturhistorisch bedeutsam sind die vielen Handzeichnungen mit eine, Fülle von topographischen Details, die den ausgezeichneten Beobachter verraten. Grünenberg entstammt einer Konstanzer Patrizierfamilie"
©: Badische Landesbibliotek Fotos: Beate Ehlig, Badische Landesbibliothek
tags: Badische Landesbibliotek, Konrad von Gruenenberg
252k OCEAN ART -'Lilies bloom in Waves'
Source Gallica.fr. Artiste inconnu.
©: PD Wikipedia
tags: postcard, france
252l OCEAN ART -'Full page drawing of tall ship'
©: PD from The New York Public Library
tags: postcard, Italy
252m OCEAN ART -Naga shell amulet
tags: naga, shell, amulet
252n OCEAN ART -Jason and the Argonauts
Medea with Jason and the Argonauts in a ship, about to throw the head of her brother into the sea with his severed limbs, to stop her father, King Oethes, who is pursuing them in the other ship; above left, Jason's abandoned lover Hypsipyle is about to jump off a cliff; from 'Historie van Jason', Netherlands, N. (Gouda or Haarlem?), between 1475 and 1480, Add MS 10290, f. 118
Author: Raoul Lefèvre. Title: 'Historie van Jason' (translation of l'Histoire de Jason'), with a prologue addressed to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy. Origin: N. Netherlands (Gouda?). Date: Between 1475 and 1480. Language: Dutch.Script: Gothic cursive. Artists: Master of the London Jason. Dimensions in mm: 270 x 195 (190 x 130)
©: Public Domain, British Library, larger image
tags: jason, argonauts, british library
252o OCEAN ART -le Phare de l'enfant perdu'
tags: phare, lighthouse, enfant perdu
252p OCEAN ART -'By the Sea - Nootka'
'By the Sea - Nootka',
negative 1915; print 1916, Photogravure, 18.5x13.6 cm (7 5/16 x 5 3/8 in.)
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
©: PD search.getty.edu
tags: pacific, edward s.curtis, indian
252q OCEAN ART - Leonardo da Vinci
"Water is sometimes sharp and sometimes strong, sometimes acid and sometimes bitter, sometimes sweet and sometimes thick or thin, sometimes it is seen bringing hurt or pestilence, sometime health-giving, sometimes poisonous. It suffers change into as many natures as are the different places through which it passes. And as the mirror changes with the colour of its subject, so it alters with the nature of the place, becoming noisome, laxative, astringent, sulfurous, salty, incarnadined, mournful, raging, angry, red, yellow, green, black, blue, greasy, fat or slim. Sometimes it starts a conflagration, sometimes it extinguishes one; is warm and is cold, carries away or sets down, hollows out or builds up, tears or establishes, fills or empties, raises itself or burrows down, speeds or is still; is the cause at times of life or death, or increase or privation, nourishes at times and at others does the contrary; at times has a tang, at times is without savor, sometimes submerging the valleys with great floods. In time and with water, everything changes"
Leonardo described water as "the vehicle of nature" ("vetturale di natura"), believing water to be to the world what blood is to our bodies.
©: http://witcombe.sbc.edu
Leonardo da Vinci was a truly remarkable polymath. He is variously known as a painter, sculptor, scientist (geologist, botanist), architect, engineer, musician and inventor. But, amongst his many areas of expertise, Leonardo could perhaps also be called an hydrologist or fluid dynamicist because of his fascination with, and study of, water, flow and rivers. Water and rivers were central to his work and thinking in many fields, including his art".
©: https://paulhumphriesriverecology.wordpress.com
The water that found itself in the proud sea, its own element, conceived a desire to rise up into the air. Aided by the element of fire, it ascended as a subtle vapor that nearly equaled the subtlety of the air. Then, as it rose higher, it passed into colder and subtler air, and was abandoned by the fire. Its small particles shrank, clustered, and grew heavy; as they sank, their pride turned to flight, and they fell from the sky. The water was then drunk by the dry earth, where it was imprisoned for a long time and did penance for its sin. picture: 'Wolf and Eagle' by Leonardo DA VINCI
You can read all of Leonardo da Vinci's fables, and those of other Italian writers in Renaissance Fables, translated by David Birch - learn more about this book from the Arizona Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
©: www.medievalists.net
tags: Leonardo da Vinci
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link: www.studiocosmos.com
