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Photographer Unknown, (Two at Dusk)
“It was dusk and the light had an ultra-violet quality to it, a final burst of pigmentation as night and day rushed at each other in a clash of colour prisms before darkness finally, inevitably won out.”
-Karen Swan, Christmas in the Snow
Chas, Number Three Doorway, Bologna, Italy
Artist Unknown, Gym Posters
Jean-Léon Gérôme, “Markos Botsaris”, Oil on Canvas, 1874
Jean-Léon Gérômea was a French painter and sculptor in the style now known as academicism. The range of his oeuvre included historical painting, Greek mythology, Orientalism, portraits, and other subjects, bringing the academic painting tradition to an artistic climax. He is considered one of the most important painters from this academic period.
This painting by Jean-Léon Gérôme depicts Markos Botsaris, a Greek hero of Greek War of Independence (1821-1832). Markos Botsaris led the Greek forces during the revolution against the Ottoman Empire and was a skillfull partisan leader in Western Greece. During the Battle of Karpenisi, on August 6, 1823, he was killed while scouting the Ottoman positions.
Guy Denning, “Halabja”, Oil on Canvas Panel, 2009
Denning’s early work included an interest in the work of Franz Kline and was characterised by powerful, expressive brushstrokes in mainly abstract paintings. Since the early 90s he has combined earlier influences with an increasingly figurative style of painting. The human figure features strongly in his latest work and he uses this subject matter to convey powerful emotions, often with political overtones.
Structurally his work is very dynamic showing a concern for strong draughtsmanship with a spontaneous application of colour. He does not always work to set motifs, but sometimes makes paintings and drawings from observation and photographic reference
Corey Johnson, “Night of the Living Dead Glitchs”, Computer Graphics, Film Gifs
Gifs reblogged with thanks to the artist’s site: http://artoftheglitch.tumblr.com
Photographer Unknown, (Eclectic Dream)
Photographer Unknown, (Head at Edge of Bed), Photo Shoot
Canopic Jars of Neskhons, Calcite/Wood, 21st Dynasty, Deir el-Bahri (Thebes), Egypt
Neskhons was the daughter ofSmendes II and Takhentdjehuti, and wed her paternal uncle, the High Priest Pinedjem II, by whom she had four children: Two sons, Tjanefer and Masaharta, and two daughters, Itawy and Nesitanebetashru. These are named on a decree written on a wooden tablet, which was placed in her tomb in order to ensure her well-being in the afterlife and to prevent her doing harm to her husband and children. This suggests family problems around the time of her death.
The canopic jars of Neskhons are made of calcite and have painted wooden lids, Qebhsenuef, with panels of incised hieroglyphic text colored blue. They have a height of 39 centimeters and a diameter of 17 centimeters. They currently are in the collection of the British Museum, London, England.
Photographer Unknown, (View from the Mast)
Paintings by Lyle Carbajal
Lyle Carbajal is an American born artist working in a style possessed of a primitive energy, as well as sophistication of detail that is incredibly diverse and unique. His work, which he calls Urban+Primitive, has been shown internationally and has been associated with the following organizations: London’s Raw Vision Magazine, The British Consulate in Los Angeles, The Center on Contemporary Art (CoCA) in Seattle and the Tennessee Public Television for the Arts.
While studying at the Art Institute of Seattle in the early 1990’s, and later on furthering his education in Nashville TN, he became interested in an array of related (and unrelated) subjects, which saw coursework in the fields of English, finance, law, negotiations as well as advertising and design. Shortly after receiving a degree in Nashville, he spent the following year volunteering full-time with a domestic Peace Corps program. While serving the southern United States he was exposed to as well as educated in southern regional culture, which would become the primer for much of his present work.
“Childhood memories and my Latin American background helped me search for a primitive expression of the world. Just like Debuffet, Twombly and Appel before me, my pursuit of “Brut” has lead me in both tangible and psychological directions, which I presume will continue indefinitely.” -Lyle Carbajal
The Beast from “Forbidden Planet”, 1956, Computer Graphics, Film Gifs
“Forbidden Planet” is a 1956 American science fiction film from MGM, produced by Nicolas Nayfack, directed by Fred M Wilcox and starring Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis and Leslie Nielsen. Shot in Eastmancolor and CinemaScope, it is considered one of the great science fiction films of the 1950s, and a precursor of contemporary science fiction cinema. The characters and isolated setting have been compared to those in William Shakespear’s “The Tempest”.
Reblogged with thanks to https://pacificrim.tumblr.com
Photographer Unknown, (Mickey Mouse 1928)
Photographer Unknown, (Stairway Yoga)