Frame of the Week

• There are competing views on what Vision of a Knight means.

• Some believe that the knight represents a Roman general who dreamed that he had to choose between Virtue and Pleasure.

• Others believe that the two women may represent the ideal attributes of the knight: the book, sword, and flower that they hold suggest the ideals of scholar, soldier and lover which a knight should combine.

• What is clear is that Raphael didn’t shy away from using a multitude of bright pigments to paint this masterpiece.

• From Wikipedia

Fame of the Week

• One of the original prints of The Great Wave, was sold on July 20th for ￡304,800 GBP.

• This was a part of Hokusai’s series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji.

• The numbered designation of the series was canonical – a nod towards the Thirty-six Poet Immortals (Sanjurokkasen), a group of historic poet exemplars – evoking the mountain as a source of poetry, art and sublimity.

• For more info on the auction, click here!

Find of the Week

• On Saturday, August 5th from 4-6pm, Gil Yefman is having the opening reception to his first solo exhibition, It Ain’t Necessarily Soft, with Shoshana Wayne Gallery in Los Angeles.

• Yefman’s practice explores a unique artistic language defined by brightly colored knitted sculptures of grotesque, fluid, multi-organ beings. From shoshanawayne.com