I try not to paint too loud

Yes I think I'm okay,

2018 10 11

my name is Luka 

Good Vibrations

Just what you want to see if it's possible 

2021 03 19

Look Here... That's Good For You

𓉔 𓅐 𓈖 𓋴     𓃀 𓅱 𓃭 𓃭 𓇋

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" Mais où sont les neiges d'antan ? "

Tout aux tavernes et aux filles

phrase de Violet, prononcée en français, faisant référence au fait qu'elle a connu le père de Lord Hepworth dans sa jeunesse, est tirée du poème "Ballade des dames du temps jadis" de François Villon. 

Cette ballade a été abondamment commentée. Mais la clef poétique est dans le pluriel, les neiges; car Villon a été le premier à employer le mot au pluriel dans le cadre d’une plainte sur le temps qui passe.

Size A4, Sylvester, last painting of 2024

A Defence of Handmade

  Percy Bysshe Shelley was prompted to write A Defence of Poetry

“We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts have their root in Greece.”

Painted by

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Blue for Space, White for Air, Red for Fire, Green for Water, Yellow for the Earth

 Blue for Space, White for Air, Red for Fire, Green for Water, Yellow for the Earth. Each flag carries the corresponding Tibetan script syllable for the six-syllable spiritual mantra Om Mani Padme Hum.

hANSi bOLLI 2008 Maladers

𓉔 𓅐 𓈖 𓋴 𓇋 𓃀 𓅱 𓃭 𓃭 𓇋

 H A N S i    B O L L i

Painted by

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Tertullian’s assertion is

 that it was the devil who created artists

2018 08 05

1474 Hand-Colored in Red, Green, Yellow and Black

Artist Marcia Varronis

Woodcut illustration (leaf [l]1r, f. lxxxxv) of the artist Marcia Varronis (or Iaia of Cyzicus), hand-colored in red, green, yellow and black, from an incunable German translation by Heinrich Steinhöwel of Giovanni Boccaccio's De mulieribus claris, printed by Johannes Zainer at Ulm ca. 1474 (cf. ISTC ib00720000). One of 76 woodcut illustrations (1 on leaf [e]8v dated 1473), each 80 x 110 mm., depicting scenes from the life of the women chronicled (for a full list of subjects, cf. W.L. Schreiber, Handbuch der Holz- und Metallschnitte des XV. Jahrhunderts (Nendeln: Kraus Reprints, 1969), no. 3506).

ca. 1474

ca. 522 years later:

1996 Maladers Wittgenstein

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Binary code translated to text:

(Painted by Hans Bolli 2025)

1474 Hand-Colored in Red, Green, Yellow and Black

Death of Cleopatra and Mark Antony 30 BC

Woodcut illustration (leaf [n]3r, f. cxiij) of Cleopatra and Mark Antony, hand-colored in red, green, yellow and black, from an incunable German translation by Heinrich Steinhöwel of Giovanni Boccaccio's De mulieribus claris, printed by Johannes Zainer at Ulm ca. 1474 (cf. ISTC ib00720000). One of 76 woodcut illustrations (1 on leaf [e]8v dated 1473), each 80 x 110 mm., depicting scenes from the life of the women chronicled (for a full list of subjects, cf. W.L. Schreiber, Handbuch der Holz- und Metallschnitte des XV. Jahrhunderts (Nendeln: Kraus Reprints, 1969), no. 3506).

Established form: Zainer, Johannes, ‡d d. 1541?. Established form: Cleopatra, ǂc Queen of Egypt, ǂd d. 30 B.C. Established form: Antonius, Marcus, ǂd 83?-30 B.C.

1474, 8 x 11 cm

2024 Hand-Colored in Red, Pink, Yellow and Black

A4, 21x29 cm

Stairway to Colors

202103 Frisch von Vorgestern

 

Pistoxenos Painter

Cylix of Apollo

It is the work of an Attic workshop, around 480–470 BC. Scholars have suggested Euphronios or Onesimos as the painter, or described it as in the manner of the Pistoxenos Painter. "Sing for the gold-haired Pythios". Diam. 18 cm, 460 v. Chr., Delphi. Archaeological Museum.

The Pistoxenos Painter, whose name is unknown, was an important ancient Greek vase painter of the Classical period. He was active in Athens between 480 and 460 BC.

1995

Matterhorns

 Plenty of Matterhorns 34x17cm DoubleSquare, Winter 2019/2020 Zermatt

Nice