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Seydou Keita, “Untitled (Olympia)”, 1956-57

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 21:00:19 -0400

Seydou Keita, “Untitled (Olympia)”, 1956-57

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Sun, 25 Mar 2012 20:51:42 -0400

cavetocanvas: William Kentridge, drawing from Stereoscope,...

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 16:11:43 -0500

William Kentridge, drawing from Stereoscope, 1998-99

From MoMA:

This drawing was executed along with the animated filmStereoscope, the eighth in Kentridge’s decade-long series featuring Soho Eckstein, the archetypal white Johannesburg businessman of the post-apartheid era and an alter ego of the artist. The role of drawings in Kentridge’s oeuvre has developed over time. Initially created in service to his films, they gradually took on a more independent life, and in 1992 the artist began showing them separately.

Here Eckstein stands in a room, knee–deep in water. It seems to be pouring from his dark business suit, as if, underneath, his whole body is crying. A vertical blue line rends the upper part of the picture in two and falls on the back of his inclined head like a reminder from his conscience. Eckstein has to cope with the horrifying past of his country, Kentridge has written, and find a line “between choosing a more solitary life or being promiscuously social.” For the artist the drawing is a ghost image, a witness to “the extent to which politics does or does not find its way into the private realm.”

ponderful: Frank Cadogan Cowper - Vanity (1907)

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 22:27:15 -0500

ponderful:

Frank Cadogan Cowper - Vanity (1907)

lushlight: Ansel Adams Half Dome-Thunder Cloud 1937 afterimage

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 22:25:43 -0500

lushlight:

Ansel Adams

Half Dome-Thunder Cloud

1937

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nocontxt: Grand Exposition In Commemoration of the Imperial...

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 21:18:29 -0500

nocontxt:

Grand Exposition In Commemoration of the Imperial Coronation-Kyoto, 1928
Vintage Japanese Industrial Expo Posters (via Pink Tentacle)

cavetocanvas: Pieter Aertsen, A Meat Stall with the Holy Family...

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 21:04:19 -0500

cavetocanvas:

Pieter Aertsen, A Meat Stall with the Holy Family Giving Alms, 1551
Oil on panel, 115.5 x 169.0 cm
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC.

In the 16th and 17th centuries it was quite common for theologians to see a slaughtered animal as symbolizing the death of a believer. Allusions to the ‘weak flesh’ (cf. Matthew 16:41) may well have been associated with Aertsen’s Butcher’s Stall where - like on his fruit and vegetable stalls - a seemingly infinite abundance of meat has been spread out.

Pieter Aertsen was one of the first artists to paint “inverted still lifes,” works in which the still-life elements are placed prominently in the foreground, while the narrative elements are relegated to the background. The Butcher’s Stall is Aertsen’s masterpiece in this genre. A feast for the mind as well as the eyes, this remarkably executed painting abounds with rich symbolism. The juxtaposition of the precisely rendered meats and other foods with the Holy Family in the background symbolically links food for the body with the spiritual “bread of life”- food for the soul, represented by the Christ child and the bread, offered by Mary to the poor family. In presenting a visual metaphor that encourages the viewer to consider his spiritual life, this work also anticipates the symbolic religious meanings present in seventeenth-century Dutch vanitas still lifes. Aertsen’s Meat Stall was clearly a famous work in its own day, judging from the number of contemporary versions that exist. In both style and subject matter, the Butcher’s Stall is the direct antecedent of the impressive Market Scene on a Quay by Frans Snyders.

(Submitted by joel-rosenburg)

tambourine-girl: Audrey.

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 14:56:14 -0500

tambourine-girl:

Audrey.

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Sun, 22 Jan 2012 14:52:05 -0500

"If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it."

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 00:29:05 -0500

“If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.”

- Zora Neale Hurston (via grrrlstudies)

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Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:02:50 -0500

Sierra - Dr. Atl (Gerardo Murillo) 1933

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:59:50 -0500

Sierra - Dr. Atl (Gerardo Murillo)

1933

theonlymagicleftisart: (Fredrik Rättzén)

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 02:30:58 -0500

theonlymagicleftisart:

(Fredrik Rättzén)

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Tue, 13 Dec 2011 21:20:23 -0500

Swan-Like Embrace, Paris - Nan Goldin (2010)

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 21:19:55 -0500

Swan-Like Embrace, Paris - Nan Goldin (2010)

delisandwich: Graffiti & Street Art • contraindicaciones

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 21:19:04 -0500

delisandwich:

Graffiti & Street Art • contraindicaciones

soyouthinkyoucansee: Soyouthinktattood payama’s tattoo floral...

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 20:50:46 -0500

soyouthinkyoucansee:

Soyouthinktattood payama’s

tattoo floral woman 1709

Illustration

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Mon, 05 Dec 2011 20:47:02 -0500

cavetocanvas: Fortune Teller - Georges de la Tour, 1632-35

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 20:46:00 -0500

cavetocanvas:

Fortune Teller - Georges de la Tour, 1632-35

"Painting is the name we give to the relationships between sensations and the forms they create as..."

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 00:09:36 -0400

“Painting is the name we give to the relationships between sensations and the forms they create as they entwine and move apart. Painting is the sensible translation of the world.”

- Octavio Paz, from “Rufino Tamayo: Myth & Magic,” 1979