Gilgamesh

Bronze Pole Top of Gilgamesh with Two Animals, 800-600 BCE, Iranian in Origin, Dallas Museum of Art

This bronze figurine, usually described as a standard finial, consists of a composite human figure and animals. The upper part of the figure holds two mythological animals of lion-monster form in the “master of animals” position. The lower half of the figure includes a repeated human head flanked by the heads of cocks, which form the tails of the upper animals. The entire image is supported by a form resembling animal legs, which in turn rests upon a tripod-like structure with lugs. The work is solid cast in one piece.

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Ash Cox

Three Endless Loop Computer Graphic Gifs by Ash Cox

Ash Cox is a graphic designer living and working in Australia. His creative studio, ALTITXDE, is based on the Sunshine Coast and focuses on art, design, and future culture. .

“Working in a range of disciplines and using a variety of media, I believe design is our most powerful tool and feel equally as comfortable immersed in an illustration as in a 3D environment. My love of variation in the design process allows for a unique aesthetic to emerge that covers multiple facets of design.”   -Ash Cox

Joseph-Noël Sylvestre

Joseph-Noël Sylvestre, “The Sack of Rome by the Barbarians in 410″, 1890, Oil on Canvas

Joseph-Noël Sylvestre was a French artist, notable for his studies of classic scenes from antiquity. He was born in Beziers in South-West France in 1847, training as an artist first in Toulouse under Thomas Couture, then at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris under Alexandre Cabanel. He was an exponent of the romantic Academic art style, also known as art pompeir. “The Sack of Rome by the Barbarians in 410″ is an example of this style.

Pearl S. Buck: “Something Worth More Than Life Itself”

“Wang Lung sat smoking, thinking of the silver as it had lain upon the table. It had come out of the earth, this silver, out of the earth that he ploughed and turned and spent himself upon. He took his life from the earth; drop by drop by his sweat he wrung food from it and from the food, silver. Each time before this that he had taken the silver out to give to anyone, it had been like taking a piece of his life and giving it to someone carelessly. But not for the first time, such giving was not pain. He saw, not the silver in the alien hand of a merchant in the town; he saw the silver transmuted into something worth even more than life itself – clothes upon the body of his son.” 

—Pear; S. Buck, The Good Earth

Jean-Paul Mallozzi

Jean-Paul Mallozzi, “Now Get Up”, 2016, Oil on Canvas, 60 x60 Inches

Jean-Paul Mallozzi was born and raised in Queens, New York, and received a scholarship to attend the Rhode Island School Of Design (RISD). He graduated with B.F.A and has since been highly collected with international exhibitions in galleries, museums and major collections the world over.

Jean-Paul Mallozzi’s work explores the broad spectrum of the human condition. Ranging from youthful to mature content, the work encompasses and reveals the idea that while emotions are amorphous, each one emits a color that echoes complex emotional states that all of us can relate to–no matter what language we happen to speak.