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Childe Hassam (1859 - 1935), A back road, n/d
lyghtmylife: Kitaj, R.B. [American Pop Artist, 1932-2007] The Autumn of Central Paris (after Walter Benjamin) - 1972-3Oil on canvasCollection Mrs. Susan Lloyd, New York
hellenismo: Red-figure lekythos with the representation of a winged Eros in an idyllic landscape. From a cemetery of Akraifnio, last third of the 4th cent.BC. Museum of Thebes.
hellenismo: Δευτέρα Ἱσταμένου, II day From today’s sunset: second day of Metageitnion. The second day is always sacred to the Agathos Daimon, to all the Heroes and Heroines and to the Chthonian Deities. It is also a day sacred to Poseidon.
proustitute: Federico Fellini, 8½, 1963
lyghtmylife: MORONI, Giovanni Battista [Italian Mannerist Painter, ca.1520-1578] The Tailorc. 1570Oil on canvas, 97 x 74 cmNational Gallery, London
bestiario: Winslow Homer
mpdrolet: Crushed cars #2, Tacoma 2004 from Intolerable Beauty: Portraits of American Mass Consumption (2003-2005) Chris Jordan
artmastered: Gino Severini, Dynamic Hieroglyphic of the Bal Tabarin, 1912
regardintemporel: Daido Moriyama - Sans Titre, 1995
angrywhistler: Richard Diebenkorn
André Derain (1880 - 1954), Ball of Soldiers in Suresnes (1903)
renaissance-art: Giotto c. 1320s Scenes from the Life of Mary Magdalene (detail)
centuriespast: George Inness American, 1825-1894 Early Morning, Tarpon Springs, 1892 Art Institute Chicago
artmastered: Edward Burra, The Snack Bar, 1930 An odd tension exists between the barman, the customer and the slicing of the ham in Burra’s painting. The woman eats distractedly, while the man cuts with enjoyment and a sideways glance at her. Violence
artandopinion: View of Haarlem 1670 Jacob van Ruysdael
Carlo Carrà (1881 - 1966), Meriggio (Noon), 1927 via Atlante dell'arte italiana http://www.atlantedellarteitaliana.it/artwork-15911.html
peira: Odilon Redon: Silver Birches at Biévres (c.1909) via The Athenaeum
centuriespast: Jean Léon Gérôme French, 1824-1904 Portrait of a Woman, 1851 Art Institute Chicago
nocttis: George Grosz
kecobe: Gustave Le Gray (French; 1820–1882)Un effet de soleil = An Effect of the Sun, Normandy Albumen print from wet collodion negative, ca. 1856 The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
tierradentro: “Café Scene”, c.1946, Raphael Soyer. (via)
peira: Carel Weight (1908-1997): Cup Tie (not dated)
snowce: Kishin Shinoyama, Shinorama Tokyo pool, 1986 (via melisaki)
artmastered: Tintoretto, The Miracle of St Augustine, c.1549
Richard Bunkall (1953 - 1999), Resting Train (1997) Brevis oratio penetrat caelum: a short prayer seeps into the sky
Church of the Gesù ~Giovanni Battista Gaulli 1672 to 1675 Rome, Latium / Lazio, Italy
peira: Sir Stanley Spencer: The Roundabout (1923) via Tate
amare-habeo: Olivier Debré (1920-1999)Blue (Bleu), N/D
k-a-t-i-e-: Venice, Italy 1949 Elliott Erwitt
currentsinbiology: Bacteria biofilm Fernan Federici, Tim Rudge, PJ Steiner and Jim Haseloff This confocal micrograph, taken as part of a synthetic biology project, shows Bacillus subtilis, a Gram-positive, rod-shaped bacterium that is commonly found
Dosso Dossi (Giovanni Luteri detto Dosso Dossi, c. 1490 - 1542); Giove, Mercurio e la Virtù (1523-24)
endlessquestion: Elise Ansel - Moveable Feast
heathwest: Benjamin Bohnsack (Born in Münster (DE) in 1975)Untitled (Luftbahn 02), 2010Tempera on canvas180 x 200 cm
regardintemporel: Sanne Sannes - Sans Titre, 1959-1964
snowce: Eugène Delacroix, Louis d’Orléans Showing His Mistress. 1825-26
worldpaintings: Carla Maria Maggi The Look of Judith, 1940, oil on canvas, 75 x 45 cm, private collection. The artistic career of Carla Maria Maggi (Italian, 1913 - 2004) lasted only a few years. A pupil of Giuseppe Palanti, her talent for drawing
endlessquestion: Paul Cezanne - The House of the Hanged in Auvers-sur-Oise
foudre: “Come as you are”W, September 2013Guinevere van Seenus by Mert & Marcusstyling by Edward Enninful
frozenwarnings: Paul Delvaux: La nuit de Noël (1956).
renaissance-art: Botticelli c. 1480s Dante: Divina Commedia
Théo van Rysselberghe (1862 - 1926), The burnished hour (1897)
paperimages: Alina Lebedeva
hadrian6: Phidias chiselling the bust of Zeus. 1802. Jozsef Dorffmeister. Hungarian. 1764-1807. oil on canvas. http://hadrian6.tumblr.com
snowce: Mario Dilitz
Hans von Marées (1837 - 1887, Roma), Hesperiden (1884), triptychon, oil on wood, 341 cm x 482 “He […] developed a complex and individual technique, overpainting tempera with layers of oil and creating a depth of colour quite unlike the
artpropelled: Ruth Stage
regardintemporel: Roman Joachimowski - Kurtyna, Photomontage, ca. 1970
blackpaint20: One of my favorite Self Portraits Theodore Gericault’s Last Self Portrait as a Dying Man, 1824 Gericault’s riveting self portrait foreshadows his physical disintegration coming through the skin as reddish glow combined with the deathly.
centuriespast: Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault French, 1791-1824 The Tempest, c. 1821–1823 Watercolor Art Institute Chicago
hadrian6: Detail : Torso in profile of a male nude. 1774 [sic]. Jean Louis Theodore Gericault. French. 1791-1824. oil on canvas. http;//hadrian6.tumblr.com According to hadrian6, this nude was painted almost 20 years before the author’s birth.
loftcultural: Fernando Botero - Madonna with a Child (1965)
artmastered: Alexej von Jawlensky, Variation, c.1916
gedankenanflug: Toltec-Chac Mool
Anita Malfatti (1889 - 1964), La Rentrée (1927)
robotcosmonaut: Solimar Beach, California - January 30, 1998
ilovetocollectart: Joan Miró - Figures at Night Guided by the Phosphorescent Tracks of Snail, 1940, watercolor and gouache on paper, Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Louis E. Stern Collection, 1963 © 2012 Successió Miró/Artists Rights Society (ARS),
urgetocreate: Paul Gauguin, Les Alyscamps, Arles, 1888
lyghtmylife: Frankenthaler, Helen [American Abstract Expressionist Painter, 1928-2011]Seeing the Moon on a Hot Summer Day1987Acrylic on canvas8’ 7 3/8” x 5’ 4 1/4”Private collection
hadrian6: The Piebald Horse. Paulus Potter. Dutch.1625-1654. oil on canvas. http://hadrian6.tumblr.com
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![hadrian6: Detail : Torso in profile of a male nude. 1774 [sic]. Jean Louis Theodore Gericault. French. 1791-1824. oil on canvas. http;//hadrian6.tumblr.com According to hadrian6, this nude was painted almost 20 years before the author’s birth.](https://40.media.tumblr.com/117187234280c8bcd615e80635be319d/tumblr_mrd59fyPY81rqqedro2_r1_250.jpg)
![lyghtmylife: Frankenthaler, Helen [American Abstract Expressionist Painter, 1928-2011]Seeing the Moon on a Hot Summer Day1987Acrylic on canvas8’ 7 3/8” x 5’ 4 1/4”Private collection](https://69.media.tumblr.com/56888d77e5edb57cb7af18e2cb7fa229/tumblr_mrg3bb94pZ1r29g9xo1_250.jpg)
