Herodias and the head of St. John the Baptist, Francesco del Cairo. Italian Baroque Era painter (1598-1674)
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poboh: Herodias and the head of St. John the Baptist, Francesco...
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amare-habeo: Vincent van Gogh, Winter Garden in Neuen,...
Vincent van Gogh, Winter Garden in Neuen, 1884
pen and ink, 515 × 380 mm
Collection of Prints and Drawings, inv. no. 1935-2791
After a short stay in Drenthe, Van Gogh travelled to his parents’ new home in Nuenen in December 1883, and left that settlement only in November 1885, a few months after the death of his father, a pastor. During this period two themes engaged his attention: the depiction of working peasants and of nature. He drew the bare trees in the garden of the pastor’s residence in the early spring of 1884, before April, because in letters written in April he mentions this and a very similar drawing now in the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. This pen and ink drawing with its sombre atmosphere illustrates the artist’s melancholy and painful solitude.
From the Majovszky collection
Szépművészeti Múzeum, Budapest
via l-amour-a-trois
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derradiokopf: says pomegranates lol but looks real cool.
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sineklitoka: Jean-Louis Murat - L’examen de minuit...
Jean-Louis Murat - L’examen de minuit (Baudelaire/Ferré)
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Gogh, Vincent van (Dutch, 1853-1890) - The Brothel - 1888
Gogh, Vincent van (Dutch, 1853-1890) - The Brothel - 1888
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centuriespast: MASIP, VicenteMartyrdom of St Agnes1540sOil on...
MASIP, Vicente
Martyrdom of St Agnes
1540s
Oil on panel, diameter 58 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid
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thedailywhat: Second Occupy Movement News Update of the Day: As...
Second Occupy Movement News Update of the Day: As Occupy Wall Street enters its fifth week, the movement has grown exponentially to include hundreds of cities across the country and around the world.
Mother Jones has been keeping tabs on the solidarity protests around the country, while the Guardian has put together a list of global events. Solidarity for the movement has officially spread to all seven continents, as the photo above clearly shows.
A real-time map of Occupy Everywhere tweets can be found here; a more narrow map of Occupy Wall Street-related media can be found here.
Occupy Wall Street organizers today announced that they have raised nearly $300,000 in cash, all of which has been deposited at Amalgamated Bank — “the only 100 percent union-owned bank in the United States.” OWS is also storing large amounts of food and other supplies “for long-term occupation” at a space donated by the United Federation of Teachers.
“We’re moving fast, without a hierarchical structure and lots of gears turning,” college student-cum-political organizer Justin Strekal is quoted as saying. “Egos are clashing, but this is participatory democracy in a little park.” Both The New Yorker and TIME magazine have dedicated their cover stories to the Occupy Wall Street movement.
According to a just-published Quinnipiac University poll, 67% of New Yorkers said they support the Occupy Wall Street movement. 87% think they should be allowed to remain in Zuccotti Park, so long as they behave lawfully.
The Boston Globe’s Big Picture and The Atlantic’s In Focus posted photos from this past weekend’s global “Day of Rage.” In Russia, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin promised CEOs of leading corporate entities that approved increases in social spending would prevent similar protests from taking place there.
Back in the United States, the White House, referring to “frustrations” felt by middle and working-class citizens, used the term “99 percent” for the first time.
Dr. Cornel West, who was arrested while protesting with Occupy D.C. outside the Supreme Court, will not be prosecuted. Elsewhere, Bo Diddley’s son and Occupy Gainesville participant Ellas Anthony McDaniel was arrested, of all places, on Bo Diddley Community Plaza.
Making the Rounds: Geraldo Rivera returns to Zuccotti Park, gets “powdered” with strawberry drink mix; an Occupy Wall Street antagonist chugs a $260 bottle of Cristal; a new Android app inspired by OWS lets users quickly text relevant parties in case of an arrest; more on NYPD Community Affairs Detective Rick, AKA “Hipster Cop”; this was bound to happen: Protester proposes to his girlfriend in Zuccotti Park by asking her to “occupy my heart” (watch below).
[ap / ows / mojo / theguardian / mashable / huffpo / globe / atlantic / reuters: 1,2 / politico / nyt / mediaite: 1,2 / cnet / gothamist: 1,2.]
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Carlo Crivelli - Annunciation with Saint Emidius, detail...
Carlo Crivelli - Annunciation with Saint Emidius, detail (1486)
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True/False game. Make an assumption about me in my ask and I’ll tell you if its true or false. Go.
you’re more real than Emma Watson.
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Paul Richer. Neurologist, painter, sculptor, he was a...
Paul Richer. Neurologist, painter, sculptor, he was a collaborator with Charcot. It is natural that we have called on him to illustrate the concept of encounter between neurology and the arts - an old idea that we would like to maintain. Moreover, Paul Richer is a sculptor neurologist or a neurologist sculptor as you will, who devoted his life to the study of the movement.It shows the movements pathological and illogical attitudes
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Cosimo Tura. St Anthony of Padua. (towards 1475)
Cosimo Tura. St Anthony of Padua. (towards 1475)
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thedailywhat: This x That: Know This: Occupy Wall...
This x That:
Know This:
- Occupy Wall Street: Occupy Wall Street’s Demands Working Group calls for national convention on Independence Day as part of larger national platform; Canadian magazine that helped spark Occupy Wall Street soliciting list of demands; pepper-spraying NYPD deputy inspector Anthony Bologna reportedly docked 10 vacation days for violating department standards; Real World Occupation? MTV looking for Occupy Wall Street protesters for Real World show.
- France and Germany reach agreement on €2 trillion Eurozone rescue fund; veracity of report on agreement questioned.
- GlaxoSmithKline’s experimental malaria vaccine halved risk of contracting disease in major clinical trial.
Read This:
- Julian Barnes named winner of 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.
- McDonald’s launching its own in-store TV channel.
Look At This:
- Survivor of Lord’s Resistance Army atrocities speaks out against Rush Limbaugh’s defense of the notorious rebel group.
- Anderson Cooper’s cell phone is covered in crap.
The Other:
- NewsFeed: Fliers Stranded at London Airport for 9 Hours, Only 45 Miles From Destination.
- Tea x Time List: The 6 Most Mind-Blowing Things Ever Discovered in Space.
- Above: From Peter Gronquist’s sculpture series “The Evolution Will Be Fabulous.” (via.)
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cavetocanvas: Study of a Reclining Nude - Eugène Delacroix, c....
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Steve Richard has been plying his trade in the mysterious...
Steve Richard has been plying his trade in the mysterious photographic arts for well over a quarter of a century. Steve is both a stills photographer and a cinematographer, thus bringing an unerring sense of style and composition to all of his work. Whether it is commercial, corporate, or fine art work, Steve?s visuals capture the imagination, challenge preconceptions, and merge a classical ethos with urban grit and 21st Century techno-savvy.
Born and raised in a small town in Canada, Steven took his first photograph at the age of 12, over 33 years ago. Much of the early years were spent developing his craft while working in the various commercial facets of the photography trade
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cavetocanvas: Michelangelo In His Studio - Eugène Delacroix, c....
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cavetocanvas: Apollo Slays Python - Eugène Delacroix, 1850-51
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Moscow Mosque… Nice collection of mosques from around the...
Moscow Mosque… Nice collection of mosques from around the world on the site….
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meeresstille: by Paul Gustave Fischer Paul Gustave Fischer (22...
by Paul Gustave Fischer
Paul Gustave Fischer (22 July 1860, Copenhagen – 1 May 1934 Gentofte) was a Danish painter.
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"Personality is much more than autobiographical detail, it’s our way of processing the world, our way..."
“Personality is much more than autobiographical detail, it’s our way of processing the world, our way of being, and it cannot be artificially removed from our activities; it is our way of being active. Eliot may have been ruthlessly impersonal in his writing in the superficial sense (if by that we mean he did not reveal personal details, such as the tricky fact that he had committed his wife to an asylum), but never was a man’s work more inflected with his character, with his beliefs about the nature of the world. As for that element of his work that he puts forward as a model of his impersonality - a devotion to tradition - such devotion is the very definition of personality in writing. The choices a writer makes within a tradition - preferring Milton to Moliere, caring for Barth over Barthelme - constitute some of the most personal information we can have about him.”
- Zadie Smith, in her essay, “Fail better.”
(In response to T.S. Eliot’s essay, “Tradition and the Individual Talent”)
- Zadie Smith, in her essay, “Fail better.”
(In response to T.S. Eliot’s essay, “Tradition and the Individual Talent”)
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