Author: ultrawolvesunderthefullmoon

https://www.instagram.com/wolvesofgray This blog is a refugee and a survivor of the Great Tumblr Inquisition of December 17th, 2018. I am gay artist, who received training at the Rhode Island School of Design, and now, a retired high-end fine art framer living in Maryland, USA. My interests and studies in life run a wide gamut from art to history and from the scientific to the esoteric. I have been building this blog of images and texts for the last eight years. My wish is that my posts pique the interest of viewers and encourage them to experience more.

Vincent Desiderio

Vincent Desiderio, “Cockaigne”, 1993-2003, Oil on Canvas, 284.5 x 388.6 cm, Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

Desiderio is a senior critic at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the New York Academy of Art. He lives and and works in Sleepy Hollow, NY. Desiderio received a BA in fine art and art history from Haverford College in 1977. He subsequently studied for one year at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence, Italy, and for four years at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts between 1979 and 1983.

He is a recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, two National Endowment for the Arts Grants, the Everson Museum of Art Purchase Prize, a Rome Grant from the Creative Artists Network and a Cresson Traveling Scholarship from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. In 1996, he became the first American artist to receive the International Contemporary Art Prize awarded by the Prince Ranier Foundation of the Principality of Monaco.

Stefan Zweig: “Ever-Ready for a New Encounter”

Photogapher Unknown, (Crossed Ankles)

“He was the kind of young man whose handsome face has brought him plenty of success in the past and is now ever-ready for a new encounter, a fresh-experience, always eager to set off into the unknown territory of a little adventure, never taken by surprise because he has worked out everything in advance and is waiting to see what happens, a man who will never overlook any erotic opportunity. . .. ”

― Stefan Zweig, The Burning Secret and Other Stories

 

Andre Govia

Photography by Andre Govia from the “Abandoned Planet” Series

Andre Govia is a photographer and urban explorer who has been photographing abandoned locations since 1999.

“We don’t damage anything. We don’t break into a building … We never remove items from a building, never deface a building. We’re there to actually capture the glory of the building,” said Govia. “If somebody is found to have removed an item or someone is found to have damaged a property to gain entry, then they are very much frowned upon and often outcast.”

Charles Émile Jacque

Charles Émile Jacque, Untitled, (Man Reading Beside a Skull), Etching, 1866, Attributed on the Plate to José de Ribera

Etching on fine wove (Japan) paper, trimmed with narrow margins and lined on a conservator’s support sheet; Size: (sheet) 13.4 x 12.3 cm; (plate) 12.1 x 11.3 cm; (image borderline) 11.5 x 10.5 cm: Inscribed within the image borderline at the lower left with the artist’s initials, “C. J.” (shown in reverse on the book page) and “ARibera 1621”; numbered outside the image borderline at lower left: “1.”

Zack Zdrale

Zack Zdrale, “Conversation”, Oil on Canvas, 2011

Zack Zdrale is from Wisconsin. He attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he earned a BA of Science-Art degree in 1999. Upon graduation, he continued to study life drawing with Robert L. Schultz. His training culminated in a Master’s degree in figurative painting from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. He graduated with honors and now teaches in the graduate Fine Art department.

Zdrale focuses primarily on the human figure, conveying a wide variety of attitudes and emotions through the pose of the body and facial expression. His palette is subdued and moody, and his figures are painted in accurate tones against dark, dramatic backgrounds. Zdrale is a master of light and shadow, and he utilizes its interplay on the figure to great effect.

Horace Bristol

Horace Bristol, “PBY Blister Gunner, Rescue at Rabaul”, 1944

In the heat of battle, photographer Horace Bristol captured one of the most unique and erotic photos of WWII.

Bristol photographed a young crewman of a US Navy “Dumbo” PBY rescue mission, manning his gun after having stripped naked and jumped into the water of Rabaul Harbor to rescue a badly burned Marine pilot. The Marine was shot down while bombing the Japanese-held fortress of Rabaul.

“…we got a call to pick up an airman who was down in the Bay. The Japanese were shooting at him from the island, and when they saw us they started shooting at us. The man who was shot down was temporarily blinded, so one of our crew stripped off his clothes and jumped in to bring him aboard. He couldn’t have swum very well wearing his boots and clothes. As soon as we could, we took off. We weren’t waiting around for anybody to put on formal clothes. We were being shot at and wanted to get the hell out of there. The naked man got back into his position at his gun in the blister of the plane.”

Original title: PBY Blister Gunner, Rescue at Rabaul, 1944