Continued
Francis Bacon - Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion
Lucian Freud - Girl with a Kitten
John William Waterhouse - The Lady of Shallot
Henry Wallis - The Death of Chatterton
Frederick Leighton - An Athlete Wrestling with a Python
Fire
Drake's gorgeous body
True but then he besmirched it with some truly horrendous tattoos. The dichotomy of man
True but then he besmirched it with some truly horrendous tattoos. The dichotomy of man
He's just in his avant-garde era let him cook
Some pieces I liked from the Tate Britain
Bruce Turner - Pavlova
Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson - The Arrival
William Ratcliffe - Hampstead Garden Suburb from Willifield Way
John Singer Sargent - Study of Mme Gautreau
Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Sancta Lilias
great gallery walking from vauxhall to pimlico
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oh he in this thread most definitely ktt2.com/white-white-girls-16539 nice work
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need me a ting/s with body like these asap might be time to move to netherlands
Vision in the Colosseum (Jose Benlliure y Gil)
Salome (Georges Desvallieres)
The Ghost of a Flea (William Blake)
Steel Water & Sweat (Guang Tingbo)
I enjoy this painting (Karagöz and Hacivat, the Shadow Play by Mehmet Muazzez Özduygu, on display at the State Art and Sculpture Museum in Ankara, Turkey). The shadow play enjoyed popularity in almost every corner of the world at some point in the past, but it was especially important, and grew from being just a form of entertainment to a cultural cornerstone, in Southeast Asia, India, and, (the setting of today’s painting) the Eastern Mediterranean. I myself was lucky enough to see a shadow play several years ago in Chania, Crete, Greece, although unfortunately I only stayed for a few minutes, as at the time I saw it only as a curiosity - certainly interesting and fun, but not as a rare example, to be treasured, of a once ubiquitous art form which is unfortunately in steep decline due to its lack of cultural cachet in the face of the rise of mass media.
Wayang shadow puppets from Java
Various Indian shadow puppets of Rama
Karagöz and Hacivat, the shadow puppets depicted in the painting, common in the post-Ottoman world
Vision in the Colosseum (Jose Benlliure y Gil)
Salome (Georges Desvallieres)
The Ghost of a Flea (William Blake)
Steel Water & Sweat (Guang Tingbo)
fire
Mikhail Nesterov
Excellent rendering of the figured juxtaposed with pattern like rendering of the background and surrounding, yet so much depth as you look toward the horizon. That birch tree in the far foreground is a single stroke of white yet it feels perfectly realistic and in place. The peredvizhniki were masters In every sense of the word fr.