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Stanisław Wyspiański (Polish pronunciation: [staˈɲiswaf vɨˈspjaɲskʲi]; January 15, 1869–November 28, 1907) was a Polish playwright, painter and poet, as well as interior and furniture designer. A patriotic writer, he created a series of symbolic, national dramas within the artistic philosophy of the Young Poland Movement. Wyspiański was one of the most outstanding and multifaceted artists of his time in Europe. He successfully joined the trends of modernism with themes of the Polish folk tradition andRomantic history. Unofficially, he came to be known as the Fourth Polish Bard (in addition to the earlier Three Bards: Adam Mickiewicz, Juliusz Słowacki, and Zygmunt Krasiński).

theshipthatflew:

Marilyn Monroe in her favorite photograph of herself, taken by Cecil Beaton at the Ambassador Hotel, New York City, 1956, via NY Review of Books

A delightful history of representations of birds in art history

theshipthatflew:

Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas (French, 1834-1917)

Harlequin, 1885

Pastel on cream laid paper, via AIC

thedarkknight85:

This is sick!!!

Spawn/Batman is a 1994 one-shot comic book written by Frank Miller with art by Todd McFarlane and published jointly by DC Comics and Image Comics. The comic is an intercompany crossover between Batman and Spawn.

Yaroslav Gerzhedovich Dry Herb

Probably my favorite artist on the Flickr

loverofbeauty:

Edgar Degas, 1863

Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas
French, 1834-1917

Harlequin, 1885

Pastel on cream laid paper, pieced at bottom and right and laid down on board
633 x 567 mm

I am reblogging this just to ask a question… It looks as if this painting has a story behind it or at least a narrative element. Does anyone have an idea as to what it might be?

yama-bato:

Escalier de la butte Montmartre au chien blanc

Description : 1932-1933

Auteur : Brassaï (dit), Halasz Gyula (1899-1984)

stephybs20:

”Oh jester my little foolish one thus you accompany our kings and made them laugh, still you are the saddest one.”

Artist: Jan Matejko

Jan Matejko ( Polish pronunciation (help·info)) (also known as Jan Mateyko; June 24, 1838 – November 1, 1893) was a Polish painter known for paintings of notable historical Polish political and military events

fer1972:

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Paul Cadmus?

armory show stamp

ArtChix Magazine: SEX, PROSTITUTION & ART: FROM FIREPLACE CHATS:

artchix:

Henri de Toulouse Lautrec

I read somewhere that Toulouse Lautrec used the pubic hairs of Paris whores to make his brushes.

While I doubt this is true, even though he may have been as clinically obsessed with getting pleasure from women of the night (and even the daylight) as countless…

A Chinese military band rehearses before the opening session of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference held in Beijing’s Great Hall of the People, China, Thursday, Mar. 3.

(just started following phoblog.msnbc)

American Bach Solists singing Agnus Dei from Bach Mass in B Minor (BWV 232)

Rabbit’s Moon is an avant-garde short film created by American filmmaker Kenneth Anger. Originally filmed in 1950, Anger only finished and released it in 1972, before re-releasing it in a second edition with a new soundtrack and other alterations in 1979.

zeeknotgeek:

Crossroad of the world

Times Square has got to be the most difficult place to photograph. Too many people, too many cars and police everywhere. Its like a circus down there but no one’s complaining. I took this shot inside the 2nd floor of the Aeropostale shop where they’re having this crazy opening sale. yes, i was inside, not to shop but to have a glimpse of the world outside, a lil higher from the rest.

mindsigh:

Werner Drewes, “Large and Small Circle,” 1934

Werner Drewes (1899-1985) was a German-American painter and printmaker, born in 1899 in Canig, Germany. Since his death in 1985, recognition of Drewes’s important role and impact on twentieth century American art has steadily grown among collectors and curators. A student at the Bauhaus during the 1920s, Drewes, along with Lyonel Feininger and László Moholy-Nagy, was one of the first artists to convey the groundbreaking concepts of that school to the United States via his painting, printmaking and teaching.

missfolly:

St Luke Painting the Virgin by Giorgio Vasari, after 1565

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