Eva Gonzalès, La Toilette (1879).
Alonso Cano, Vision of St. Bernard
That’s some impressive distance, Madonna of the Super Soaker Boob.
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Andy Goldsworthy wrapping poppy petals around a granite bolder, 1989
Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O’Keeffe - Hands, 1917
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art:
Georgia O’Keeffe—Hands is one of the images that Stieglitz made during his first portrait session with O’Keeffe, in 1917, when she traveled by train to New York to see her second show of drawings and watercolors at 291. “A few weeks after I returned to Texas, photographs of me came,” she recalled. “In my excitement at such pictures of myself I took them to school and held them up for my class to see. They were surprised and astonished too. Nothing like that had come into our world before.” The notion that an expressive portrait might be made without including the sitter’s face was indeed novel.
Crying and shaking.I cannot get over Achilles’ face in this painting. Holy shit.
He’s totally like: “Oh god, mom, put a fucking shirt on, I mean, what are you even doing? Can’t you see I’m busy lamenting the death of my boyfriend? Like I really need to see your tits at a time like this— YOU’RE SO EMBARRASSING MOM GAWD.”
And the rest of the Greeks are jazz-handsing in the background. They’re all ‘WOAH LOOK AT THAT TOTALLY WICKED SET OF TITS— I MEAN ARMOUR. WOAH’
Let me just say that this is the best interpretation of a painting I have ever seen
^^^^
no mom
mom no
NO
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what about one of the soldier there
‘woaaaah watch out we got a badass over here’
The comments!!!!!
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
Detail from La Grande Odalisque, 1814
(Source: detoulouse)
“The Basement Stacks” by Wary Meyers
A photograph of Michelangelo’s “Pietà” by Aurelio Amendola from the art book “Michelangelo: La Dotta Mano.”
In “take your clothes off,” adara sanchez anguiano plays on the intimacy of undressing. thru fabrics and distinct body parts, anguiano suggests what we look like under our “2nd skin”.
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Mad Men’s Betty Draper, copyright Dan Luvisi. This isn’t a photo, it’s a painting, completed in a whopping two hours- How is that even possible?! Crazy awesome.
detail from Caravaggio’s Judith Beheading Holofernes:
The deutero-canonical Book of Judith tells how Judith saved her people by seducing and killing Holofernes, the Assyrian general. Judith gets Holofernes drunk, then seizes his sword and decapitates him: “Approaching to his bed, she took hold of the hair of his head, and said, Strengthen me, O Lord God of Israel, this day! And she smote twice upon his neck with all her might, and she took away his head from him.” (Judith, 13:7-8).
full painting here.
