cavetocanvas:

Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O’Keeffe, 1918

love the expressiveness of this

cavetocanvas:

Jusepe de Ribera, Tityus, 1632

From the Museo del Prado:

Tityus, the son of Jupiter and Elara, is shown chained to a rock in Tartaria. An eagle eternally devours his entrails, which are reborn with each phase of the moon. This giant was punished after he was incited by Juno to attempt to seduce one of his father’s lovers.

The subject of the condemned —Tityus, Ixion, Tantalus and Sisyphus— attained certain popularity in European art from the modern era and was often used in palace decorations. These works personified the reigning dynasty’s implacable powers against the infidelity, pride and arrogance of those who attacked the supremacy of the monarchy.

Awesome!

yama-bato:

Japanese Chiyogami

The Black with Gold Waves Chiyogami is silkscreened onto machine-made sheets of mixed kozo and sulphite. Japanese Chiyogami is a very cooperative and beautiful paper that is an excellent choice for bookbinding, collage, greeting cards, box making, book arts, and jewelry.

natashavc:

“Women who encountered Joan Didion when they were young received from her a way of being female and being writers that no one else could give them. She was our Hunter Thompson, and Slouching Towards Bethlehem was our Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. He gave the boys twisted pig-fuckers and quarts of tequila; she gave us quiet days in Malibu and flowers in our hair. “We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold,” Thompson wrote. “All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom windows, because I had some idea that the gold light would make me feel better,” Didion wrote. To not understand the way that those two statements would reverberate in the minds of, respectively, young men and young women is to not know very much at all about those types of creatures. Thompson’s work was illustrated by Ralph Steadman’s grotesque ink blots, and early Didion by the ravishing photographs of the mysterious girl-woman: sitting barelegged on a stone balustrade; posing behind the wheel of her yellow Corvette; wearing an elegant silk gown and staring off into space, all alone in a chic living room.”

The Autum of Joan Didion — By Caitlin Flanagan

 IT IS INCREDIBLE

artchipel:

Nu Ryu - Forest |  Under the water. Pastels on fabric, 28x44inches (2008)

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akratic:

Ilya Repin

What Freedom!

1903

Oil on canvas

179 × 284.5 cm

frenchtwist:

via mudwerks:

Dancer Gertrud Frith in Medea (by ADiamondFellFromTheSky)

Rolf Winquist 1957

cavetocanvas:

Joan Mitchell, Sunflower III, 1969