Ganymedes Rocks

Dear Robert,

Allow me to express my thanks for your own micro-blogging initiatives, which I punctually reblog and often find myself inspired by, sometimes intellectually, otherwise mentally, spiritually and even sensuously, as some have that poer to exacerbate our aesthetic sensitivities; a part of life that I find essential. I am flattered to now be enabled, through your initiative, to put a name on one of @ganymedesrocks friend, which not that many of my followers do. This gesture of yours just made my day. May yours be blessed.

Jean Louis

Elly Kalantari, 1994-Iranian born, IMDA MFA 2024 student,“A Morphing Moment”.

I did not opt to post this because it is hunting season in the French Southwest, in fact I am not even sure to post this because the CIA found out that Iranians were planning to shoot Donald Trump for all things considered since the electoral campaign for president, we have been used to 'anti-Trumpian' feudal futility...essentially fuelled by his own newsy needs. No, I am posting this because it is exactly how my body morphs the more, I am told what we have to expect of America's leadership future: Series B-headed thinking!

A French patinated bronze figure of Bacchus in the manner of Louis Garnier (French, 1639-1728), probably a posthumous cast, courtesy Bonhams.

Apollo with Lyre, ca. 1595, bronze after a model by Tiziano Aspetti (1559 - 1606), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC, NY.

Michiel van der Voort I (1690 – 1737), Preparatory sketch for a statue of Actaeon, Museum Plantin-Moretus collection

Eberhard Schrammen, born Phillip Eberhard Schrammen (1886–1947), an important artist in the Bauhaus Movement, ''Mascot'', 1924

Philipp Eberhard Schrammen after his school-leaving examinations, studied first at the Academy of Art in Düsseldorf, headed later at the Grand-Duke of Saxony’s College of Fine Arts in Weimar. Schrammen had developed a major interest in painting and drawing even during his school days. WW1 created a deep break in his artistic career for Schrammen, as it did for many of his contemporaries. At the end of the war in 1919, his pictorial subjects changed, and Schrammen’s work now consisted largely of woodcuts and drawings in which he tried to come to terms with what he had experienced. He remained in Weimar even after the First World War, maintaining close contacts with the College of Applied Arts, which had been founded there in 1906 under the leadership Henry van de Velde. Schrammen, also supported the founding of the State Bauhaus. He took architecture course at the Bauhaus in the summer semester of 1919, and starting in 1921 studied in the printing workshop, under Lyonel Feininger, and in the stage workshop run by Lothar Schreyer.

On 18 May 1919, Schrammen published the first edition of the Bauhaus journal ‘Der Austausch’, illustrated with his woodcuts. As chairman of the Student Committee, he became a major contact and spokesman for his fellow students. He was expected to learn a craft, as all of the students at the Bauhaus were, and he completed a one-year traineeship with a wood-turner in Weimar, which started a new artistic development for the artist who now started to make painted children’s toys, for example, from wood. building bricks and a walking bike. His wooden objects were shown at the first Bauhaus exhibition in 1923, precisely in that year prior to him creating 'Mascot'..