#arctic freeze

[sockdreams]

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[yourselfcola]

does not like the toy. until other cat wants to play with it then he has to have it

[longlistshort]

Pictured above is Drossos P. Skyllas‘ painting, Wisconsin Ice Cave, 1950, part of LACMA’s 2018 exhibition, Outliers and American Vanguard Art.

About the artist from the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. where the exhibition was also on view-

Drossos Skyllas achieved the exquisitely detailed, jewel-like surfaces of his paintings with tiny brushes he fashioned himself. He applied miniscule dabs of luminous oil paint in a pointillist manner, which gave his subjects a petrified yet shimmering quality. His refined technique and adherence to the academic genres of still life, landscape, portraiture, and mythological scenes demonstrate his knowledge of art history. And inspired by the old masters, he perfected the difficult depiction of reflective surfaces, including gems, mirrors, water, and ice. At the same time, his uniform clarity of detail, imposed symmetry, and sense of frozen time create a dreamlike mysteriousness reminiscent of magic realism. In addition to high art sources, Skyllas likely drew upon commercial illustration and photography. Untitled (Roses) resembles both traditional floral still lifes and midcentury advertisements for jewelry and flowers. Wisconsin Ice Cave relates as much to northern Renaissance landscape painting as to mass-produced picture postcards.

Born in Greece, Skyllas worked in his father’s tobacco business before emigrating to the US shortly after World War II. He settled in Chicago and devoted himself to becoming a professional artist, though he had no formal artistic training. Supported financially by his wife, Skyllas produced thirty-eight paintings from the late 1940s until his death in 1973. Some of these he submitted to the annual juried exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago and Vicinity, which featured his work in 1955, 1967, 1969, and 1973. He also sought commissions to paint portraits, but with asking prices as high as $30,000, he never found any patrons.

Skyllas’s work was discovered after his death by Chicago gallerist Phyllis Kind, who added him to her roster of self-taught artists in 1974. He was likely known to artists Jim Nutt and Gladys Nilsson before this, as they had exhibited alongside him in the 1967 Chicago and Vicinity exhibition and are enthusiastic collectors of self-taught artists (Wisconsin Ice Cave is in their collection). The meticulous finish of Skyllas’s paintings, which simultaneously evokes advertising art and Renaissance illusionism, appealed to Nutt, Nilsson, and fellow Chicago imagist Roger Brown, whose art collection also included the self-taught Greek master.

[hyperref-lex-ia]

US CITIZENS THERE IS A FREEZE COMING IN

IT IS LOOKING LIKE IT IS GOING ALL THE WAY SOUTH

IF YOU ARE NOT USED TO COLD WEATHER LISTEN UP

LEAVE ALL YOUR FAUCETS DRIPPING, ALL OF THEM, YOU DO NOT WANT YOUR PIPES TO EXPLODE

THE POWER MIGHT GO OUT BUY A PORTABLE SPACE HEATER MAYBE A FEW OF THEM AND BATTERIES

IF YOU DONT HAVE THICK CLOTHES GET SOME

SNOW PANTS SAVE LIVES

BEST OF LUCK FRIENDS

[luff-gore]

I had a revelation.

[aquanutart]

[veveisveryuncool]

im from the south and it is arctic subzero wasteland weather (28 degrees) so i doodled the crystal shards crew while making out with my space heater

[illmoraineakoi]

Headcanon that if Victim had powers, they'd predominately be ice themed.

[sunlaire]

Okay okay so , did Sophia love crozier?? When she said "I've made a terrible mistake", is she talking about not openly returning his feelings while she had the chance or does she regret sending him into the arctic? If things were different and he were to return, would she have pursued him? Pls, I must know...

[xypheris]

I am a cold feet, cold hands person. So I'm wearing 3 layers of knee length socks, waddling around like a penguin. (Can't bend my knee)

My mom asks if I’m preparing for an Arctic expedition or just trying to outdo the Michelin Man.

[jurweem]

Fifth attack this season! This time on @charetchi because they absolutely CHEESED me earlier this month and I needed REVENGE >:)))

The composition's based on this weird phenomenon where folks, especially kids, imagine a figure running alongside a car.

(Hopefully what I drew passes as a car interior lol) Normally you wouldn't imagine yourself as the figure (like I drew Kismit doing), but I'm an idea-sapped artist so it is what it is 🙂

[yourselfcola]

[antisisyphus]

im thinking abt what id like for my next tattoo n i think i want to get a selkie but specifically a fat lady who is a selkie. if anyone has any (pics of) tattoos of fat women pls send them my way bc i cannot find very many

[weheartstims]

A winter-themed stimboard!

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[cold-earth-connection]

Hey friends, the lake has started to freeze. It hasn't come above freezing point for 3 days already

[lokiinmediasideblog]

Landlord's gonna get someone to look at my useless heater \(^_^)/