Artwork of the day #1

[Inaya]

ninaroos.nl

A friend of mine who is a lovely artist. Check her site if you're so inclined

 

[unspoiledbird]

James Ensor, The Intrigue

artsmia.org

 

[Multitudes]

One of the most striking papel portraits I have ever come across. The striking part is not because of the popes unique personality, his inhumaness, the combination of heroic power and corruption, but because of the opposite of uniqueness: Of what he has in common with other human beings. The human condition. How Velázquez ever got away with this is interesting!. Of course this portrait is also very fascinating for me, because of Francis Bacons repetitive reinvention of it.

Pope Innocent X Diego Velázquez

wikimedia.org

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[Tacker]

eye-opening

 

[Multitudes]

I think this is one of the most beautiful self-portraits he ever painted. The manner in which he unsparingly depicts the marks of life on his face with the help of an unbelievably free application of paint. It's fascinating how Rembrandt succeded in producing from an accumulation of completely non-illustratioinal marks a painting that was capable of reproducing a recognisable reality. The ability to capture reality within the opposition of abstract marks and figurative depiction. This self-portrait conveys in a double sense an imager of the destruction of the face, on one hand the destruction to which the face has been subjected by the process of ageing on the other hand, it is a violation of the likeness through the brutal use of brush and paint ...

Small Self-Portrait(c. 1657) Rembrandt Harmensz. Van Rijn

rembrandtpainting.net​

 

[MUXU]

^ooooo
rather wonderful indeed
look at the brush strokes! and the deconstructed manerism

edit:
face of st. teresa of 'ecstasy of st. teresa' by bernini

museoomero.it

 

[kanita]

Multitudes, thank you for that!

'Telepathie' by Eva Seufert

janwentrup.com

 

[ruslana rules]

Republican Automatons by George Grosz 1920View attachment 287073source: MoMA.org

 

[electricladyland]

scanned by me

 

[fouroclock]

Susanna Crystal, Carolingian France, 869

Fadis

 

[Whitelinen]

The Nightmare (1781) by Henry Fuseli
wikipedia.org

 

[MUXU]

death and the maiden by laurie lipton

saatchi gallery.co.uk

 

[titania]

Rita Dianni-Kaleel Nude III

diannifineart

... And he told me
I'd taste the pain
Well, I taste it everyday...

 

[kanita]

Self Portrait by Egon Schiele (1907)

gseart.com

 

[AbsolutStyle]

Markus Linnebrink, "Myself Outside"

hammer.ucla.edu

 

[Multitudes]

Sitzender männlicher Akt(1910) Egon Schiele

wikimedia.org

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[MUXU]

Karin Dreijer by milkattack from live journal

livejournal

 

[Inaya]

^ I love the lips!! Very well done


from myspace.com

by Ian D. Seniff

 

[Jetsetgirl]

love this thread!

http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/time/skins/mucha.jpg

 

[SomethingElse]

I went on an Erté costume design binge today.... they are drawings and lithographs.

Source: katsclass.com

Source: findingfineart.com

Source: jafproject.net

Source: atkins-history.org
Credit: Erté née Romain de Tirtoff