Sunday, February 26, 2023

the organizing principles that underlie all camouflage

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Above and below Still excerpts from Art, Design and Gestalt Theory: the film version (2023), a film about the perceptual organizing princi...
Friday, February 3, 2023

camouflage assisted him in making vast theatre murals

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Above Ship camouflage artist James Daugherty in his studio. ••• Publisher’s Weekly , October 26, 1929, pp. 275-276— …But the new art was ...

Chagall as a camoufleur in Russia during World War I

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Above Marc Chagall , The Birthday (1915). Museum of Modern Art. Public domain. ••• Raymond Nacenta , School of Paris: the painters and the...

Cocteau / just say he was wearing camouflage gear

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Above Anon, detail of embroidered textile, 16th century Italy. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Public domain. ••• Dan Franck , Bohemian Paris: ...
Thursday, February 2, 2023

bandits in warpaint hold up New York restaurant / 1928

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Painting by George Catlin Above George Catlin , Portrait of Blue Medicine (Toh-to-wah-kon-da-pee), Medicine Man of the Eastern Sioux Dakot...

cubism and camouflage / oscillation of appearances

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Above Simay Imre , Subscribe to the Liberty Loan (World War I French poster), 1918. University of Illinois Archives, Public Domain. ••• Wy...

Art, Design and Gestalt Theory: The New Film Version

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Recently completed: Our most popular video talk, titled Art, Design and Gestalt Theory: The Film Version (40 mins). It traces the emergence...
Sunday, December 25, 2022

video on creative process in science, art and humor

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free online video / full view  
Friday, December 23, 2022

deceptive non-service in the WWII camouflage corps

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G. Burr Inwood, cartoon from Life , 1917. ••• Lee Hall , Wallace Herndon Smith: paintings . University of Washington Press, 1987, pp. 60 and...

restaurant robbery and a camouflaged futurist coffin

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Above Anon, cartoon from The Sketch (London), 1919. ••• REDSKINS GET $1,000 LOOT. Brooklyn Gunmen Paint Faces Then Stage Holdup. East Liv...
Monday, December 12, 2022

Nichols brothers / NY ship camoufleurs during WWI

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Hobart Nichols Above We have met [Henry] Hobart Nichols Jr. (1869-1962) before, when in 2019 we mentioned him in a post in reference to h...
Saturday, December 10, 2022

correction of misattribution of magazine cover image

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So at last the mystery has been solved. In September 2017, we blogged about an illustration of a dazzle-camouflaged ship that was published...
Thursday, December 8, 2022

Peanut Prieto selects a Chandler Coupe closed car

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Humorist Kayem Grier (1920) Above We recently found a photograph of a popular newspaper columnist (and erstwhile stage comedian) who was we...

is crime not to be depended upon / who can we trust?

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Above A pictorial advertisement for a Victorian-era British illusionist, T[homas] Elder Hearn . ••• Alas! This is An Age of Ingenious Camou...
Monday, December 5, 2022

Camouflage Cartoons Archive online at ScholarWorks

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Online Camouflage Cartoons Archive How wonderful! I couldn’t be more pleased with the latest efforts of the ScholarWorks staff at the Univer...
Wednesday, November 23, 2022

hidden horse / caw said crows are calling his name

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We have all heard of a cowbird , and a horsefly . But might this image qualify as a froghorse , because a closer look reveals that there is ...

vintage picture puzzle / harmless sleeping puppy dog

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Reproduced above (the same image four times, but repositioned and resized) is a Victorian-era “puzzle picture” that was printed on an advert...
Sunday, November 20, 2022

ScholarWorks / American Women Camouflage Exhibit

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UNI ScholarWorks Exhibit Five years ago, in 2017, I curated an exhibition of historic government photographs, having to do with the role of ...

WWI French camouflage cartoons by André Hellé

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La Baïonnette Above A page of camouflage-related comic drawings by World War I French illustrator and toy designer André Hellé , as publis...
Saturday, November 19, 2022

Camoufleur John Wilde in Walter SH Hamady's books

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Above Page spread from Reeve Lindberg , John's Apples ( Perishable Press , 1995), a Walter Hamady letterpress book, with full-color p...
Friday, November 18, 2022

Canadian camouflage artist Rowley Walter Murphy

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Above Dazzle-camouflaged transport ship (AI colorized), 1942. ••• Mary El Cane, "Staff and Nonsense" column, in Sketch (Ontario...
Monday, November 14, 2022

a modern bus like noah's ark with 12 pygmies inside

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Tudor Hart's WWI tank camouflage Above A couple of years ago, we blogged about the World War I camouflage innovations of a Canadian art...
Thursday, November 10, 2022

she was not only good in math, science & philosophy

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Frida Kahlo Barbara Mujica , Frida: A Novel . Woodstock: Overlook Press, 2001, pp. 102-103— “Everyone said I had an eye for color,” she tol...

amazing how war finds use for anything—even artists

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Gerard Woodward , Vanishing . London: Picador, 2014, p. 466— Shortly after this, back at the barracks, I was called in to see the major. He ...
Monday, November 7, 2022

landscape camouflage as flat pattern abstract design

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Above Collier’s: The National Weekly . January 10, 1914. Artist unknown. This cover design and illustration do not pertain directly to Loui...

Ding Cong / camouflaged wit and humor from china

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Above is his illustration of the following traditional story, as told by Chinese artist Ding Cong (who signed his work as Xiao Ding) (1916...
Thursday, November 3, 2022

WWII charming camouflage fashions for mothers to be

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Margaret Brentnall, John Hutton, Artist and Glass Engraver . Philadelphia PA: Art Alliance Press, 1986, pp. 40 and 45— The [World War II Bri...
Tuesday, November 1, 2022

disruptive geezer theatre doors / wartime propaganda

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Above This photograph was published in an American theatre magazine during World War I. It shows the decorated entrance of a Broadway theat...
Sunday, October 30, 2022

camouflage pattern on armored truck in world war one

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We have regrettably misplaced the source for this vintage wartime photograph. My best recall is that it is a camouflaged World War I armored...

Abbott Thayer and Concealing Coloration / Dublin NH

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Above Abbott Handerson Thayer , Charcoal drawing for ship camouflage experiment , c1915. From Abbott Handerson Thayer Family Collection .  ...
Saturday, October 29, 2022

Thayer's camouflage of William James' Norfolk jacket

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Above A comparison of two photographs, the one on the far left identified as Abbott H. Thayer , attired in a Norfolk hunting jacket that ha...

Abbott Handerson Thayer / the master at his very best

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Abbott H. Thayer (c1915) Above Abbott Handerson Thayer , Study of Alma Wollerman , oil on canvas, c1915. From Abbott Handerson Thayer Famil...
Friday, October 28, 2022

Gerome Brush and his memorial to Edward Thaw Jr.

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Kasebier portrait of Evelyn Nesbit (1903) Above Portrait of actress Evelyn Nesbit , made by Gertrude Kasebier (c1903), at about the time ...