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heavymetalpianist:

Wassily Kandinsky, Improvisation 31 (Sea Battle), 1913, Oil on canvas.

Wassily Kandinsky appreciation post

Hubert Scheibl

Minds And Mushrooms, 2008

Oil on canvas, 240 x 440 cm (94.49 x 173.23 in)

Minds and Mushrooms, 2008

Oil on canvas, 240 x 350 cm (94.49 x 137.8 in)

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rhamphotheca:

Small Magellenic Cloud: A Confetti-Like Collection of Stars
by JPL staff
The tip of the “wing” of the Small Magellanic Cloud galaxy is dazzling in this new view from NASA’s Great Observatories. The Small Magellanic Cloud, or SMC, is a small galaxy about 200,000 light-years way that orbits our own Milky Way spiral galaxy.
The colors represent wavelengths of light across a broad spectrum. X-rays from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory are shown in purple; visible-light from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is colored red, green and blue; and infrared observations from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope are also represented in red.
The spiral galaxy seen in the lower corner is actually behind this nebula. Other distant galaxies located hundreds of millions of light-years or more away can be seen sprinkled around the edge of the image…
(read more: Jet Propulsion Laboratory - NASA)
(image: NASA/CXC/JPL-Caltech/STScI)

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museumuesum:

Leo Fitzmaurice

Horizon (Leeds), 2011

oil paintings and picture frames, installation dimensions variable

Horizon (Leeds) is made up from a selection of 19th and early 20th century landscape paintings chosen from Leeds Art Gallery’s collection. Fitzmaurice has installed the paintings to create a single painted horizon, forming a graphic line cutting across the ornate frames.

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