Monthly Archives: August 2022

The Code of Ur-Nammu is the oldest known law code surviving today. It is from Mesopotamia and is written on clay tablets, in the Sumerian language c. 2100–2050 BCE. The reign of Ur-Nammu is generally regarded to have been peaceful and prosperous. The Code of Ur-Nammu may be divided into two parts, the first isContinue reading “The Codex of Ur-Nammu”

/I am obsessed with all these peplum dresses Sarah Burton has been doing at Alexander McQueen. A totally fresh, new angle on customary femininity! Because the McQueen woman is indeed a paradox. Her inner world is a complex state of affairs that McQueen can support her in unfurling, assisting her to flourish and thrive –Continue reading “//Linguistics&Fashion//: how Alexander McQueen fashioned himself as the Saussure of fashion”

__________… The philological pertinence of Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (/mʊŋk/ MUUNK, [ˈɛ̀dvɑɖ ˈmʊŋk]; 1863 – 1944) within the study of Western Indo-European-Nostratic languages… The goal is to be able to die saying “We lived, loved and rose!” Like how Munch learnt to do, from a dark childhood of illness and bereavement, going on to adoptContinue reading “~ What is she Munch-ing on? ~”

“Perfection is no small thing, but it is made up of small things.” – Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564)… Michelangelo’s influence on Western art is heralded as unparalleled, and we wouldn’t even have #ModernArt today without his input, no matter how discordant our worlds of now and then may seem. But is #Michelangelo in fact overrated, andContinue reading “Is Michelangelo overrated?”

I first dabbled with the Tongva language, a shrewdly and sharply galvanic Uto-Aztecan/Uto-Aztekan/Uto-Nahuan language historically spoken in spoken in Southern California around Los Angeles (Yaanga) and on Santa Catalina Island around a year-and-a-half ago when I first began to tackle Amerindian philology. Tongva has not been used in the context of everyday conversation since theContinue reading “Tongva”

🇬🇧 CREATIVITY art mastery 🏛 CREŌ, “to create, make” artem (accusative), ars (nominative) peritia 🇷🇺 КРЕАТИВНОСТЬ kreativnost’, творчество tvorchestvo искусство iskusstvo мастерство masterstvo 🇬🇷 ΔΗΜΙΟΥΡΓΙΚΟΤΗΤΑ dimiourgikótita τέχνη téchni μαεστρία maestría 🇮🇷 خلاقیت khlaqat هنر hnr مهارت mhart 🇹🇷 YARATICILIK sanat ustalık 🇯🇵 創造性 sōzō-sei 美術 bijutsu 習熟 shūjuku 🇲🇳 уран бүтээлийн авьяас чадвар ᠤᠷᠠᠨ ᠪᠦᠲᠦᠭᠡᠯ ᠦᠨContinue reading “🎨”

PICASSO’S HARLEQUINS ~ The legendary artist Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) is universally adored for his radiant wit. Among his recurring motifs was the harlequin, a traditional mute character of pantomime normally dressed with a mask and a diamond-patterned costume. The harlequin (Italian: arlecchino) personage has its historical origin in the Italian commedia dell’arte, associated with theContinue reading “➿♦️🔶♥️🔷♦️➿ the philology of Picasso’s Romance verve”

I mentioned in my past post ~ The Da Vinci Curse ~ that “things are only ever really strictly relative in the context of human thought.” I have since been examining this complex idea more deeply. A conclusion I have since concretised is that relativity is overwhelmingly a biased notion we have superimposed onto theContinue reading “On Klee, Cubism, and Relativity!”