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Hans Rudolf Giger (1940 - 2014) - original concepts for Alejandro Jodorowsky's never created version of Dune.

2021-11-08 · 1859 views · 5 reposts

Sarah Goodridge (1788–1853) - Beauty Revealed (1828, Watercolor on ivory, 6,7cm x 8cm, New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art Collection)

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Beauty Revealed (1828) was painted by the American artist Sarah Goodridge (1788-1853). And while Sarah Goodridge primarily painted neat and relatively conventional portraits, and she was quite successful at that, this was a little fun project of her. It is painted in watercolor on top of ivory, and it only measures 6.7 × 8 cm (2.6 × 3.1 in). It supposedly is a self-portrait of Sarah Goodridge at age 40, and she made it for her friend and statesman Daniel Webster. She sent this work to Webster after his first wife passed away, and she may have had some interests in marrying him. The painting did not completely convince him as Webster would eventually marry someone else, though the two of them remained friends throughout their lifes. She focused only on the breasts, and to emphasize this she added a white cloth around them to not include other “distracting” parts of the body. It is reasonable to assume that the painting was only intended for Webster’s eyes, and his family held on to the painting until 1981, when they sold it, and it eventually ended up in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Read More »

2021-10-23 · 1282 views · 4 reposts
Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (Witkacy) (1885 - 1939) - Autoportret fotograficzny (1910)
 
18 września 1939 roku nieopodal wsi Jeziory, na wieść o agresji dzień wcześniej Sowietów na Polskę, życie odebrał sobie Witkacy, Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, niebywale oryginalny i wszechstronny twórca kultury polskiej. 
 
"Życie zostawia nam, ogólnie biorąc, mało czasu na kontemplację. Stan rozmyślania, czyli jedności wewnętrznej, zmienia się u nas zbyt często na wypoczynek zupełny, podobnie jak u zwierząt. Nie trzeba się łudzić, pod wielu względami uspołecznienie równoznaczne jest z powrotem do stanu pierwotnego, jeśli chodzi o pewne indywidualne wartości. Jednak nawet współczesny człowiek miewa chwile, kiedy wszystko wydaje mu się nie tak znów prostym i jasnym. Stany te jednak są tak lotne i nikłe, tak nieuchwytne, życie z całym aparatem obowiązków i zajęć i przepracowaniem tak gwałtownie każe nam dzień przepędzać, że nawet jeśli jakość jedności wystąpi już nie jako taka, lecz jako lekkie tylko dziwaczne zabarwienie jakiegoś kompleksu jakości innych, moment taki jako odrywający nas od codziennych zajęć, szybko bywa stłumiony mimo woli, automatycznie lub nawet świadomie" fragment eseju Witkacego Read More »
2021-09-18 · 1323 views · 4 reposts
Wisława Szymborska (2 lipca 1923 - 1 lutego 2012) -  Fotografia z 11 września / Photograph from September 11 (wiersz, 2001)
 
Skoczyli z płonących pięter w dół
- jeden, dwóch, jeszcze kilku
wyżej, niżej.
Fotografia powstrzymała ich przy życiu,
a teraz przechowuje
nad ziemią ku ziemi.
Każdy to jeszcze całość
z osobistą twarzą
i krwią dobrze ukrytą.
Jest dosyć czasu,
żeby rozwiały się włosy,
a z kieszeni wypadły
klucze, drobne pieniądze.
Są ciągle jeszcze w zasięgu powietrza,
w obrębie miejsc,
które się właśnie otwarły.
Tylko dwie rzeczy mogę dla nich zrobić
- opisać ten lot
i nie dodawać ostatniego zdania.
 
 
They jumped from the burning floors
— one, two, a few more, higher, lower.
The photograph halted them in life,
and now keeps them
above the earth toward the earth. Read More »
2021-09-11 · 1394 views · 3 reposts
Egon Schiele  (1890-1918) - Eros (1911, Chalk, Gouache, Watercolor on paper, 55,9cm x 45,7cm, Private Collection)
 
In Eros (1911), for instance, Schiele draws a self-portrait in which he is hunched over, looking ill, with his swollen, red penis taking up much of the frame. It is an intentional reference to his supposed degeneracy. The real decrepitude, he seems to say, is not in his art but in the world. Schiele’s works reflected his time, and to censor him is to ignore both history and the devious desires we all have. By putting these dark longings out in the open, Schiele helped zap them of their power.
2021-07-18 · 835 views · 2 reposts
Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach (1851 - 1913) - The Fairy Dance (1895, Oil On Canvas, 96,5cm x 53,5cm, Private Collection)
2021-07-18 · 895 views · 5 reposts
Gyula Benczúr (1844–1920) - Narcissus (1881, Oil On Canvas, Hungarian National Gallery, 115cm x 110,5cm)
2021-06-06 · 1531 views · 1 repost
Julius Schmid (1854-1935) - Wood Nymphs In The Moonlight (Oil on canvas, Private Collection, 86.3cm x 147.8cm)
2021-05-02 · 1481 views · 1 repost
Keith Haring (1958 - 1990) - Safe Sex (1985, Acrylic On Canvas Tarp, 120 × 118")
Safe Sex! (1987, Original 1987 Keith Haring Safe Sex poster)
 
1985—things have seriously changed in New York, and in my life, because the horror of AIDS had come to light.” The words are Keith Haring’s, quoted in his biography. For Haring, as for many queer people in the mid-1980s, the moment ushered in an unprecedented experiment in social distancing: “You had to start being selective and much more aware of what you were doing, and who you were doing it with,” he writes, noting the need to balance communal safety with a hard-won culture of liberated sexuality. “I didn’t stop having sex, but had safe sex or what was considered and understood to be safe sex at that point.”
2021-04-26 · 2175 views · 2 reposts
John William Godward  (1861–1922) - Athenais (1908, Oil on Canvas, Private Collection, 101cm x 61cm)
2021-04-16 · 3107 views · 4 reposts
Adolf Hering  (1863–1932) - Der Tod und das Mädchen / Death and the Maiden (1900, Oil on Canvas, 149cm x 78cm, private collection)
2021-04-16 · 3333 views · 3 reposts
Irving Penn (1917–2009) - 12 Hands Of Miles Davis And His Trumpet (Photographed in New York, July 1 , 1986)
2021-04-14 · 2724 views · 1 repost
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