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tamburina: Frank Scherschel Magazines scattered among the rubble of the heavily bombed town of Saint-Lô, Normandy, France, summer 1944.
suivra: Achrome, 1958, Piero Manzoni. [kaolin on canvas]
german-expressionists: Paula Modersohn-Becker, Graue Landschaft mit Moorkanal (Gray Landscape with Marsh Channel), 1899
blastedheath: Roderic O’Conor (Irish, 1860-1940), Nature morte, c.1909. Oil on canvas, 18 x 22 in.
Giambattista Tiepolo (Venezia 1696 - Madrid 1770), The Olympus or The Triumph of Venus, 1761-1764, oil on canvas; Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid
Lambert Sustris (Amsterdam c. 1515 - Venezia [?] c. 1584), Noli me tangere, n/d (second half of 16th century); oil on canvas; Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille
wetreesinart: Edvard Munch, Enfants sur la route, 1906
artmastered: Eric Fischl, The Old Man’s Boat and the Old Man’s Dog, 1982
Georges Braque (Argenteuil 1882 - Paris 1963), Concert, 1937
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Willi Baumeister (Stuttgard 1889 - 1955), Tennis player (with spectators), 1935
bestiario: James Jebusa Shannon
Jacob Isaacszoon van Ruisdael (Haarlem c. 1628 - Amsterdam 1682), A view of Amsterdam, 1665-70; oil on canvas; National Gallery, London
poboh: Au bord du canal, Delft, 1859, Johan Barthold Jongkind. Dutch (1819 - 1891)
Charles-François Daubigny (Paris 1817 - 1878), Moisson (Harvest), 1851, oil on canvas, 135 x 196 cm; Musée d'Orsay
urgetocreate: Richard Diebenkorn, Window
Niccolò Dell'Abate (Modena c. 1509 - Fontainebleau (?), 1571), Ritratto di un cavaliere dell'Ordine di Santiago (Portrait of a knight of the Order of Santiago), 1548-1552; oil on canvas; Staatliche Museen, Berlin
athinglikethat: US Vogue December 1996A Feast for the EyesModels: Kylie Bax, Amy Wesson, Elsa Benitez, Carolyn Murphy, Naomi Campbell, Michelle Behennah, Guinevere Van Seenus, Trish Goff, Linda EvangelistaPhotographer: Steven Meisel
bofransson: Mary Cassatt
Yuzo Saeki (Osaka 1898 - Paris 1928), Garage, 1927-28, oil on canvas; Bridgestone Museum of Art, Tokyo
William Roberts (Hackney, London, 1895 - London 1980), The port of London, c 1920-24; oil on canvas; Tate
mpdrolet: Mila Teshaieva
artmastered: Christian Krohg, Tired, 1885
Lajos Deák Ébner (1850 Pest - 1934 Budapest), Poultry Market, 1885; oil on canvas, 132 cm x 97 cm; Hungarian National Gallery (Magyar Nemzeti Galéria), Budapest
belle-art: Albert Chevallier Tayler, A Dress Rehearsal 1888
art-library: William Merritt Chase, The Lone Fisherman, 1890.
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (Seville, 1617 - 1682), Sagrada Familia del pajarito (Holy Family with the little bird), c 1650, oil on canvas; Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid
artmastered: Lorenzo Lotto, Madonna and Child with Saints and an Angel, 1527-28
a-bright-flurry: Ilya Repin
susanzweig: Olivier Rouault - Vue de ma fenetre
Sandro Botticelli (Sandro di Mariano Filipepi called il Botticelli; 1444 or 1445 Firenze - Firenze 1510), Compianto sul Cristo morto (Lamentation over the Dead Christ), c. 1495, tempera on panel, 107 x 71 cm; Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milano
bestiario: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
poplifeplus: Lothar Baumgarten - Urucu (1970)
masterpiecedaily: Jacques-Louis David Portrait of Madame Recamier 1800
amare-habeo: Pierre Cherbit (Born in 1955) - Witness, 2001 (more at Saatchi Gallery)
hadrian6: Alpheus and Arethusa. 1568-70. Battista di Domenico Lorenzi. Italian. 1527-1594. marble. Metropolitan Museum of Art. NYC. http://hadrian6.tumblr.com
bbredux: David Inshaw, Portrait of Silbury Hill in May, 1989
twofacedmirror: Elisabeth Chaplin, 1912 (Italian, born France, 1890 - 1982) Born in France and raised in Italy, Elisabeth Chaplin first presented her work in 1912 at the Promotrice Fiorentina and later, in 1920, at the Venice Biennale. She was influenced
Valentin de Boulogne (Coulommiers c. 1490 - Roma 1632), The Judgement of Solomon, c. 1620; oil on canvas, 174 cm x 213 cm; Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Roma
last-picture-show: Franz Kline, Buried Reds, 1953
Nicholas Roerich (Saint Petersburg 1874 - Naggar, Himachal Pradesh, India 1947), Kiss the Earth, 1913
poboh: The Line of the Plough, Sir Arnesby Brown. English (1866 - 1955) TATE
bestiario: De Nittis Giuseppe de Nittis (italian, 1846 - 1884)
Ron Milewicz (b. 1963 Brooklyn, New York); Court House Square, 2003, oil on canvas, 50 x 65 inches
italianartsociety: Today is the feast day of the Four Crowned Martyrs, a group of early Christian Roman sculptors who refused to carve a pagan idol and were executed by Emperor Diocletian for their insurrection. Memorably depicted by Florentine sculptor
neurosciencestuff: Researchers surprised to find how neural circuits zero in on the specific information needed for decisions While eating lunch, you notice an insect buzzing around your plate. Its color and motion could both influence how you respond.
David Davidovich Burljuk (also Burliuk; Char'kov 1882 - New York City 1967), Landscape with trees, 1910
drakontomalloi: Adam Elsheimer - The Burning of Troy. 1604
Jan Gossaert (called Mabuse; Maubege c. 1478 - Middelburg c. 1532), St. Donatian of Rheims, oil on board, after 1510
tierradentro: “Mountain Lake”, 1938, Salvador Dalí.
urgetocreate: Rain on a city street is by Hans Baluschek, 1917
John Wesley Carroll (b. Wichita, Kansas 1891 or 1892 - d. Kansas City [?] 1959), Lady in blue, c 1924, oil on canvas, LACMA Collections
lphntn: Planes by Colours, František Kupka
Philip James de Loutherbourg (Strasbourg 1740 - Chiswick, London 1812), A distant hail-storm coming on and the march of soldiers with their baggage (1799); oil on canvas, 109 cm x 162 cm; Tate
Joseph Stella (Muro Lucano [Italy] 1887 - New York City 1946), Children’s Toys (Marionettes), c. 1930, oil on canvas, 65 cm x 82 cm; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
thorsteinulf: Frank Bramley - The Fisherman’s Home (1889)
artmastered: Giorgione, The Three Philosophers, c.1507-08
masterpiecedaily: Louis-Leopold Boilly The Vaccine 1807
Otto Dix (Untermhaus, Gera 1891 - Singen 1969), Trenches
italianartsociety: On this day in 1531, the painter Il Sodoma received a 10-ducat bonus for a double-sided banner painted for the Compagnia di San Sebastiano in Camollia near Siena. His original contract of 3 May 1525 was to paint two sides of a canvas