Black Mesa by Michael Eastman
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asylum-art: Portraits With Smoke by Laurence Demaison French...
Portraits With Smoke by Laurence Demaison
French photographer Laurence Demaison did two series of smoking portraits called “In the clouds” and “Meditations”. In black and white, we can see smoke emanating from lying bodies or faces which look like they’re evaporating in curls of smoke.
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ancientart: Sculptures of a young and adult Nero. Nero became...
Sculptures of a young and adult Nero.
Nero became emperor of the Roman Empire in AD 54, and reigned for 13 years before committing suicide in AD 68. Nero is remembered as being particularly notorious -very few surviving ancient sources paint him in a favourable light, and he is often noted today for his persecution of the Christians.
Much of what our Roman historians record can’t be taken at face value, but it provides some entertaining reading nonetheless. Below is my personal favourite account of Nero:
Suetonius, Life of Nero, 23:
“While he was singing no one was allowed to leave the theatre even for the most urgent reasons. And so it is said that some women gave birth to children there, while many who were worn out with listening and applauding, secretly leaped from the wall, since the gates to the entrance were closed, or faked death and were carried out as if for burial.”
The first sculpture shown is courtesy of and located at the Romisch-Germanisches Museum, Cologne; and the second, the Glyptothek. Photos taken by Carole Raddato and F. Tronchin.
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darksilenceinsuburbia: Victoria Goro-Rapoport Website
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elisebrown: Kasia Derwinska
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beard-of-stars: Ernst Fuchs - Kampf der verwandelten...
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blackpaint20: Finally! I found all the details of this...
Finally! I found all the details of this amazing funerary monument.
Détail du tombeau de Louis Phélypeaux (1598-1681) - Eglise de Châteauneuf-sur-Loire; copyright of Philippe_28 (maintenant sur ipernity)
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thepeoplesrecord: Fukushima’s children are dying June 16,...
Fukushima’s children are dying
June 16, 2014Some 39 months after the multiple explosions at Fukushima, thyroid cancer rates among nearby children have skyrocketed to more than forty times (40x) normal.
More than 48 percent of some 375,000 young people—nearly 200,000 kids—tested by the Fukushima Medical University near the smoldering reactors now suffer from pre-cancerous thyroid abnormalities, primarily nodules and cysts. The rate is accelerating.
More than 120 childhood cancers have been indicated where just three would be expected, says Joseph Mangano, executive director of the Radiation and Public Health Project.
The nuclear industry and its apologists continue to deny this public health tragedy. Some have actually asserted that “not one person” has been affected by Fukushima’s massive radiation releases, which for some isotopes exceed Hiroshima by a factor of nearly 30.
But the deadly epidemic at Fukushima is consistent with impacts suffered among children near the 1979 accident at Three Mile Island and the 1986 explosion at Chernobyl, as well as findings at other commercial reactors.
The likelihood that atomic power could cause such epidemics has been confirmed by the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, which says that “an increase in the risk of childhood thyroid cancer” would accompany a reactor disaster.In evaluating the prospects of new reactor construction in Canada, the Commission says the rate “would rise by 0.3 percent at a distance of 12 kilometers” from the accident. But that assumes the distribution of protective potassium iodide pills and a successful emergency evacuation, neither of which happened at Three Mile Island, Chernobyl or Fukushima.
The numbers have been analyzed by Mangano. He has studied the impacts of reactor-created radiation on human health since the 1980s, beginning his work with the legendary radiologist Dr. Ernest Sternglass and statistician Jay Gould.
Speaking on the Green Power & Wellness Show, Mangano also confirms that the general health among downwind human populations improves when atomic reactors are shut down, and goes into decline when they open or re-open.
Nearby children are not the only casualties at Fukushima. Plant operator Masao Yoshida has died at age 58 of esophogeal cancer. Masao heroically refused to abandon Fukushima at the worst of the crisis, probably saving millions of lives. Workers at the site who are employed by independent contractors—many dominated by organized crime—are often not being monitored for radiation exposure at all. Public anger is rising over government plans to force families—many with small children—back into the heavily contaminated region around the plant.
Text, politics, 2023
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centuriespast: Abraham’s Sacrifice Diana Scultori, Italian, c....
Abraham’s Sacrifice
Diana Scultori, Italian, c. 1547 - after 1588. After Giorgio Giulio Clovio, Croatian (active Italy), 1498 - 1578.
Geography:
Made in Rome, Italy, Europe
Date:
1575 Medium:
EngravingPhiladelphia Museum of Art
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asylum-art: David Altmejd Art artist on tumblr David Altmejd is...
artist on tumblr
David Altmejd is a sculptor born in Montreal, Canada. He currently lives and works in New York.
“When I work, the body is like a universe where I can lose myself. It is a metaphor for the landscape, nature and the mountains”, Altmejd has said. The Healers (2008), another sculpture over two metres high which is formed of wood, foam, plaster and burlap, shows wildly overlapping figures and figurative fragments – hands, wings, kneeling and kissing figures, rendered as if in the midst co-dependent, sexually charged physical agony.Equally reminiscent of baroque compositions representing the descent of the cross as well as of 19th-century public bronze sculptures commemorating battle massacres, Altmejd’s elaborate tableau, mixing handmade craft with the illusion of a digital freeze-frame palimpsest, evokes a mood of constant alchemical mutation.
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supersonicart: Notre Chauvet. Paintings from the artist...
Notre Chauvet.
Paintings from the artist collective known as “Notre Chauvet" who get their name from the cave paintings of Chauvet in France that were painted 40,000 years ago. These cave paintings were done by multiple contributors just like Notre Chauvet’s work. You can see more the pop inspired collective work below:
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İstanbul’da geçmiş geri dönüyor. Dalgın Sular’ın ilk...
İstanbul’da geçmiş geri dönüyor. Dalgın Sular’ın ilk üç sayısı yeniden bayilerde. Yenilenmiş dördüncü sayısında Çizgi Romanın devamının yanısıra “geçmişi ihya etmek” sorunsallaştırılıyor..
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centuriespast: Woman Seated under a Spider’s Web...
Woman Seated under a Spider’s Web (Melancholy)
Caspar David Friedrich, German, 1774 - 1840. Woodblock cut by the artist’s brother Christian Friedrich, German, 1779 - 1843.
Geography:
Made in Dresden, Germany, Europe
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c. 1803-4 Medium:
WoodcutPhiladelphia Museum of Art
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urgetocreate: Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida, After the Bath,...
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"Dangerous girl, seductive as the weather! Shall I adore your snows and frosts together? In your..."
“Dangerous girl, seductive as the weather! Shall I adore your snows and frosts together? In your relentless winter shall I feel, a kiss more sharp than that of ice and steel?”
- Charles Baudelaire (via androphilia)
- Charles Baudelaire (via androphilia)
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jeannepompadour: Icon with full-length portrait of St. Michael...
Icon with full-length portrait of St. Michael Detail of panel from the Pala d’Oro; 12th-13th century, Constantinople
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speciesbarocus: Guillaume de Tignonville - Les dits moraux des...
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le-plus-beau-des-mensonges: RODIN &...
Illustrations for Charles Baudelaire’s 'Les Fleurs du Mal', 1887-88
Pen and brown ink, brown ink wash, on pages from a copy of the original edition of ‘Les Fleurs du Mal’ (Paris, Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, 1857)
This copy of the original edition of 1857 belonged to the book lover and publisher Paul Gallimard. The architect and art critic Frantz Jourdain used his influence to obtain the commission to illustrate it for Rodin. The brown leather binding was made by Henri Marius Michel. Represented in demi-relief on the front cover, in incised, mosaiced leather, is an ivory skull on a dark green thistle plant.
Rodin, whose fondness for poetry and Baudelaire is well known,worked on this project for barely four months, in late 1887 and early 1888. His line drawings, sometimes heavily shaded, with hatched backgrounds and five washes on Japan paper, heavy with ink and gouache, would subsequently be inserted into the pages. Specially designed for the book or inspired by earlier sketches made for The Gates of Hell, these drawings appeared on the frontispiece and occasionally invaded the poems. (via Musée Rodin)
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allthingsromanticism: Romantic Themes: Death The Death of...
The Death of Gericault by Ary Scheffer (1824)
Chatterton by Henry Wallis (1856)
The Entombment of Atala by Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson (1808)
Lord Byron on His Death-bed by Joseph Denis Odevaere (1826)
The Young Martyr by Paul Delaroche (1853)
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David (1792)
The Death of General Moreau by Auguste Couder (1814)
The Funeral of Shelley by Louis Edouard Fournier (1889)
The Suicide by Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps (1836)
Cleopatra by August German von Bohn (1841)
Romantic Themes: Death
- The Death of Gericault by Ary Scheffer (1824)
- Chatterton by Henry Wallis (1856)
- The Entombment of Atala by Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson (1808)
- Lord Byron on His Death-bed by Joseph Denis Odevaere (1826)
- The Young Martyr by Paul Delaroche (1853)
- The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David (1792)
- The Death of General Moreau by Auguste Couder (1814)
- The Funeral of Shelley by Louis Edouard Fournier (1889)
- The Suicide by Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps (1836)
- Cleopatra by August German von Bohn (1841)
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catmota: Lemon (1946) Lucian Freud more works by this artist
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