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Category: galleria

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A humorous period advertisement to 'Make Your Life Surreal!' Talking foo-dog lanterns make conversation with each other while you prepare the saag paneer. (One dog says 'I am known for my wise and witty garters', while the other says, 'I have seen pickles in my time that would make your skin crawl.' This is your last chance before the apocalypse. Order now and receive your free book, 'I am a sparsely inhabited Plantagenet.' The advertisement is put up by Irv's Surrealist Emporium, no fixed address.)
Advertisement, from Dr. Boli’s Celebrated Magazine.

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Format ImagePosted on August 7, 2010December 7, 2019Categories galleriaTags whimsy
A book in a book in a book.  An open hardcover book with green and white cover. In its pages is cut a space where a smaller, otherwise identical book is nestled. Its cover is also opened to reveal a third, tiny book amidst its pages.
Found on Etsy; link no longer extant.
Format ImagePosted on March 1, 2010December 7, 2019Categories galleriaTags books
Oil painting. Steep mountains rise up into the sky, green grass and sparse trees giving way to naked rock face. White clouds crown those bare peaks amidst a blue sky.
The Mancorbo Pass in Picos de Europa (1876), by Carlos de Haes.
Format ImagePosted on February 3, 2010December 7, 2019Categories galleriaTags art by artists, distant lands, nature
Graphic design. 36 logo designs in a 6x6 grid, each one a stylized 'M' shape, built of colourful blocks. The logo identity for the City of Melbourne, Australia.
City of Melbourne identity, designed by Landor.

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Format ImagePosted on November 19, 2009December 5, 2019Categories galleriaTags art by artists, the City
Fine art of a sequence of human heads. A woman in a bonnet tells gossip to her friend. Her friend passes on the gossip to her friend, and on it goes down a sequence of twelve people, until it reaches the thirteenth -- the man whom the gossip is about. The sequence ends with him scolding the woman in the bonnet, who was responsible for it in the first place. Isn't this the way gossip comes around?
‘The Gossips’, Norman Rockwell.

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Posted on October 22, 2009December 5, 2019Categories galleriaTags art by artists, being human, whimsy
Fine art in pen, monochrome. A woman sits with her back to us, pondering. A long elegant pipe is in hand, which is exhaling a vision of an oriental city in billowing smoke. The woman's long, straight hair mingles with the folds of her luxurious dress, and her head is crowned by the crescent moon.
Inviting the Moon, by Mia Sereno (Likhain)
Format ImagePosted on October 19, 2009December 5, 2019Categories galleriaTags art by artists, mythology
Two silver-haired angels lying close to each other, their traditional Chinese robes billowing around them like wings.
by Angell Studio.

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Posted on July 1, 2009December 5, 2019Categories galleriaTags ABJD, angel

.yin.n.yang.

Illustration of two winged beings. The ashen-haired woman sits wrapped in a robe upon a precipice, gazing into the distance, her mechanical wings spread behind her.  The dark-haired man stands next to the woman, his eyes on her, while a red cloak slips off his cyborg shoulders. Newly-fledged mechanical wings are sprouting out of his back.
.yin.n.yang. by Kuang Hong.

the days turned colder,
the wind, howled.
shuddering under a thin layer,
she thought about the vow they’d made.

she’d forgotten how many days ago,
it was, when they last met.
but she remembered, that day
he said, wait here.

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Format ImagePosted on May 6, 2009December 5, 2019Categories galleriaTags art by artists, on sorrow and longing

Lovell’s Soldier

Fine art illustration of an American 18th century soldier, plus sketches and studies.
Soldier, for The Continental Insurance Company. Illustrated by Tom Lovell.

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Format ImagePosted on May 5, 2009December 5, 2019Categories galleriaTags art by artists
Fine art painting. A leprechaun in a top hat rides a brown rabbit, saddle, bridle and all.
from ‘A La Recherche de Féerie’, Jean-Baptiste Monge.

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Format ImagePosted on April 29, 2009December 5, 2019Categories galleriaTags animals, art by artists, faery, whimsy

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