overarts: Van Gogh - The Mulberry Tree II Oil Painting

overarts:

Van Gogh - The Mulberry Tree II Oil Painting

overarts: Van Gogh - Noon: Rest From Work Oil Painting

overarts:

Van Gogh - Noon: Rest From Work Oil Painting

interwar: ohhfrontier Gates of Paradise, Florence Italy by Ghiberti

interwar:

ohhfrontier

Gates of Paradise, Florence Italy by Ghiberti

musicboys: Salvador Dalí sketching Harpo Marx, 1937.

musicboys:

Salvador Dalí sketching Harpo Marx, 1937.

thelittlemuseum: encephalopathy: Bougival Dance by Pierre-Auguste Renoir  1883.

thelittlemuseum:

encephalopathy:

Bougival Dance by Pierre-Auguste Renoir 

1883.

blackcontemporaryart: Chorus, Kiki Smith, 2012 on view until September 4th at 46th street and 8th Avenue in New York City at the Last Lot project space. The rainbow-colored star clusters pay tribute to Josephine Baker, the American-born French burlesque dancer, singer and actress, who epitomized the sensuality and spectacle of the burlesque follies of the 1920’s. The first African American female to star in a major motion picture, and the quintessential entertainer of that time, Baker is also known for her support of the Civil Rights Movement and for her family of adopted children from all over the world, whom she called “The Rainbow Tribe.” Baker served as a muse to several influential artists based in Paris at the time such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Pablo Picasso. Smith, whose work often explores feminist themes through depictions of the female body and women from history and mythology, is drawn to the complexity of Baker’s career as an erotic and primitivist performer/showgirl, and a social and political activist.

blackcontemporaryart:

Chorus, Kiki Smith, 2012

on view until September 4th at 46th street and 8th Avenue in New York City at the Last Lot project space.

The rainbow-colored star clusters pay tribute to Josephine Baker, the American-born French burlesque dancer, singer and actress, who epitomized the sensuality and spectacle of the burlesque follies of the 1920’s. The first African American female to star in a major motion picture, and the quintessential entertainer of that time, Baker is also known for her support of the Civil Rights Movement and for her family of adopted children from all over the world, whom she called “The Rainbow Tribe.” Baker served as a muse to several influential artists based in Paris at the time such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Pablo Picasso. Smith, whose work often explores feminist themes through depictions of the female body and women from history and mythology, is drawn to the complexity of Baker’s career as an erotic and primitivist performer/showgirl, and a social and political activist.

usatoday: An 80-year-old resident of the Spanish town Borja decided to touch up a century-old fresco of Christ wearing a crown of thorns in Misericordia church. No one realized how badly disfigured the painting was until the woman rang town hall to say what she had done. More: Well-meaning amateur artists destroys fresco of Christ. (Photo by Centro de estudios Borjanos, via AP)

usatoday:

An 80-year-old resident of the Spanish town Borja decided to touch up a century-old fresco of Christ wearing a crown of thorns in Misericordia church. No one realized how badly disfigured the painting was until the woman rang town hall to say what she had done.

More: Well-meaning amateur artists destroys fresco of Christ.

(Photo by Centro de estudios Borjanos, via AP)

evelynnowadays: Degas little dancer

evelynnowadays:

Degas little dancer

overarts: Kandinsky - Im Blau (In Blue) Oil Painting

overarts:

Kandinsky - Im Blau (In Blue) Oil Painting

thepen: Kandinsky, Ordered Compression, 1938

thepen:

Kandinsky, Ordered Compression, 1938

aboyfrompittsburgh: Flowers, 1964. Acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas. Signed “Andy Warhol” and dedicated to Joe on the verso.

aboyfrompittsburgh:

Flowers, 1964.

Acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas. Signed “Andy Warhol” and dedicated to Joe on the verso.

vice-art: Princess Caroline of Monaco, 1983 by Andy Warhol

vice-art:

Princess Caroline of Monaco, 1983 by Andy Warhol

darksideoftherainbow: The Bathers, Paul Cézanne. 1894-1905.

darksideoftherainbow:

The Bathers, Paul Cézanne. 1894-1905.

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

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