| ♕ | “Explosion 1, 2 and 3.” Lambda print (backed on aluminium, wooden frame, anti reflex glass), ed /10, Dimensions (inch) : 16 x 24. 2009. by Joschi Herczeg and Daniele Kaehr.
SUBMISSION:
Feeding At the Corners of the Mouth
Silver Gelatin Print
| ♕ | “Man with Axe.” By Liliana Porter.
The frogs desiring a king.
Ernest Griset, from Æsop’s fables, with text based chiefly upon Croxall, La Fontaine and L’Estrange, London, New York, 1869.
(Source: archive.org)
The wolf and the crane.
Ernest Griset, from Æsop’s fables, with text based chiefly upon Croxall, La Fontaine and L’Estrange, London, New York, 1869.
(Source: archive.org)
The hawk and the nightingale.
Ernest Griset, from Æsop’s fables, with text based chiefly upon Croxall, La Fontaine and L’Estrange, London, New York, 1869.
(Source: archive.org)
Francis Bacon, Study for Portrait II (after the Life Mask of William Blake), 1955
From the Tate Collection:
This is one of a series based on the life mask of poet and painter William Blake. Bacon first saw the mask at the National Portrait Gallery in London, but he also used photographs and, at some point, he even acquired a cast of it. His response to the source is typical of his preference for a mediated image of the body. The painting is more complex than it seems: it is built up with delicate layers of paint against a rich black ground. One commentator wrote, ‘broad strokes of pink and mauve, with which Bacon establishes an equivocation between waxen mask and human flesh, drag pain and loneliness and imperturbable spirit in their wake’.
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Francis Bacon, Study for a Portrait of Van Gogh IV, 1957
From the Tate Collection:
Bacon based this painting on a self-portrait by Vincent Van Gogh which he knew only from photographs, as it had been destroyed by wartime bombing. The painter seems solitary, while the dark shadows introduce a sense of foreboding or melancholy. Van Gogh epitomised the idea of the misunderstood artist, set apart from mainstream society. Bacon might also have been stimulated by the film Lust for Life, starring Kirk Douglas as Van Gogh, which had been released a year earlier. This film reinforced the idea of Van Gogh as a lonely genius.
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Rembrandt, Abduction of Ganymede
Yup, that baby is definitely pissing himself with fear. Now that’s the kinda attention to disgusting, disturbing detail that truly made Rembrandt a master.
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SUBMISSION:
Clinical study at the Mary Shelley School of Theologic Medicine
Artist: John Purlia
Medium: Photography
Dimensions: 20x30”
Video of Mary Shelley’s creation: http://youtu.be/mcpkwZs5UpE
Pre-iPhone, you had to be a pretty hardcore photo geek to shoot photos at the beach.
(Source: locpix)
