a collage of 6 pieces of art depicting pigeons
a collage of 6 pieces of art depicting pigeons
One of my favorite things to do when visiting any museum is trying to spot all of the pigeons. 🕊️ I struck gold (literally) at the Heraklion Archaeological Museum on Crete! 🇬🇷 Minoans, Greeks, Romans — they all depicted pigeons using various mediums: rocks, ceramics, gold, glass, mosaics 🐦 #PigeonSky
Is it a Pigeon, is it a Dove !
This is the bird window (C15th) at St Mary's Church, Salehurst folks.
The only record of a similar drawing is at the Pepys Library, Cambridge, founded in 1428 as a Benedictine hostel.
Pigeon perched on branch with foliage in the background, description from ebird: ‘Medium-sized chunky pigeon that is dark blue with a pale gray hood. Appears short-tailed in flight. Found in rainforest, secondary habitat, and plantations, and locally in dry coastal scrub. Most common at higher elevations in most of its range. Most often seen perched up conspicuously on emergent trees, feeding on fruiting trees, or in flight in small flocks. The common vocalization is a quick series of low hoots or growls. Dark blue coloration and pale head separate it from all other pigeons in its range.’
Pigeon of the Day:
Comoro Blue-Pigeon
Near Threatened
📷 Dubi Shapiro
A pigeon on the go, wearing a fez, painted in acrylic over a green background
Today's pigeon is wearing a fez, and was painted in a hotel room
Painting of a white pigeon perched on a leafy branch, green and golden backdrop.
Morning.
Pigeon, Maria Krikun.
Good morning. coincidentally, I'm fiddling with my pigeon song at the moment for a performance upcoming later in the year. cherylcamm.co.uk/song-stories...
Feeding the Pigeons, painting by Bob Richardson (b.1938 in Salford).
Morning Ian! The rabbit thing happened to me too today, except it was a hare.
Early stroll. Security lights greet me brightly. Clouds almost too heavy-duty for the sky. The same house number three times on a bin: 40 40 40. A man who usually waits at that bus stop waits at another bus stop. A rabbit appears/disappears/appears.
#WindowsOnWednesday Three Horseshoes
Red Whiskey Glass, Yellow/Green Table
#HumansOfBlueSky Dead and Alive, Wandlebury, Cambridgeshire
My photo shows a tall Roman drinking cup made of very pale green, slightly cloudy glass. The surface is decorated with thin, trailed-on threads of blue and white glass that wind around the cup, giving it a raised, textured, pattern. This type of glass decoration is known as ‘snake-thread’. The cup narrows slightly at the bottom and stands on a small, rounded foot, like a pedestal. It looks similar to an ice-cream sundae glass or ornamental vase. This cup and many other glass vessels made in the Roman provinces, have been found in ‘princely’ burials at the Himlingøje Necropolis, dated to Denmark’s Late Roman Iron Age. The site is known for its rich Roman imports, indicating close relations with the Roman empire.
This 1,800 year-old Roman glass cup is so well preserved that the railway construction worker who found it in the 1800s used it as a flower vase not realising its age!
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From Himlingøje, Denmark. National Museum of Denmark 📷 by me
#Archaeology
A hello song...hello and goodbye, indeed. Work song and lullaby too. So versatile! www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVhX...
I can't remember that one....so very, very long ago. However, I am writing a song about the fluff as we speak...I'll let you know when it's done!!!
Ofsted books are Ofsted books. They help schools and that’s great and why I write them, but I’m really excited about my first novel!!!!
Here’s the cover. Out 27th March! Eeek!
Hoolets! youtu.be/SBKwlm7Wboo
Each unwritten word
Sits in the long sharp pencil
Like a sleeping song
Captured in 1960 by the prominent Swedish photographer Sten Didrik Bellander (1921–2001), "Kvartsglas" "Quartz Glass" is a seminal work of Swedish modern photography. The image is a gelatin silver print that exemplifies Bellander’s mastery of light and form, transforming a simple glass pitcher into a study of transparency, refraction, and austere beauty. Celebrated for its purity, the photograph focuses on the lyrical way natural light interacts with the liquid and glass, a style often described as a "cultivation of the essentials.". The photograph holds significant status in Swedish art history and is part of the permanent collection at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm. Its importance was further cemented when it was chosen as the cover image for the museum's major retrospective exhibition of Bellander's work in 2000. Bellander's artistic vision was shaped by his time as the first foreign assistant to Richard Avedon in New York, as well as his foundational role in Tio Fotografer (Ten Photographers), a legendary collective that revolutionized visual language in Sweden during the mid-20th century.
📸 : Sten Didrik Bellander (1921–2001) - Kvartsglas (Quartz Glass), 1960
gelatin silver print
A seminal work of Swedish modern photography. The print exemplifies his mastery of light and form, transforming a simple glass pitcher into a study of transparency, refraction, and austere beauty.
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Good morning Richard. Yes. The verges are all aglow with them up here. I particularly love the look of the post-flower fluff :)
Evening Roll
Acrylic
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Early stroll. My strolling state of receptivity. A cloud shaped like Ireland. Is that mist the same as yesterday’s? That abandoned cupboard has been there for days. Trope into cliche: the dropped industrial glove in the middle of the road.
#TrainStationTuesday Blackfriars
#TrainsOnTuesday Liverpool Street
#TrainsOnTuesday Liverpool Street
It's a very good year for the dandelions. If you look closely, they're very beautiful.
Stained glass window with image of a peacock with tail open facing forwards
East window, St. John, Honiley, Warks, UK 1924 by Theodora Salusbury, English artist in the Arts & Crafts style, the peacock was her signature #WomensArt
In The Gutter with The Love of Drains, Stapleford
