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not to be a nerd but it’s so crazy how he (Bernini) really did that from cold hard stone……. truly a spectacle, truly breathtaking, an honor to behold

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Growth by Grady Frederick

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Paul Klee

Prince

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Marguerite Burnat-Provins (1872-1952) - Confiance, 1926

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Paul Klee (Swiss/German, 1879-1940), Nächtlicher Fels [Nocturnal Rock], 1927. Watercolour and pen and ink on paper laid down on the artist's mount, sheet: 19 x 12 1/4 in. Mount: 19 15/16 x 12 3/4 in.

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John Singer Sargent, Val d'Aosta (A Stream over Rocks; Stream in Val d'Aosta), ca.1907-08, Oil on canvas

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Roberto Faustini - Lovers by a Fountain

Italy, 1850

If someone let me kiss continually your honey-sweet eyes, Juventius,

continually I’d kiss even to three hundred thousand kisses,

nor ever should I seem on the verge of having enough,

not even if the crop of our kisses should be

thicker than dried wheat sheaves.

-Catullus, Carmen XLVII

In Italian:

Se quei tuoi occhi di miele, Giovenzio,

fosse dato baciarli, sempre sempre

trecentomila volte, neanche allora

penserei di saziarmene in futuro,

fosse messe di baci fitta fitta

come mai fu messe di spighe asciutte.

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François van Loo, The Flaying of Marsyas

Circa 1730, France

François van Loo was a member of the so-called "van Loo Dynasty" of painters. His father, uncle and brothers were also high-regarded painters of de Académie Française d'Italie in Rome, with his father also working in Florence, Aix-en-Provence and in Turin, where François was raised by his mother.

François's older brother Louis-Michel was a member of the Académie, where François soon joined him. However, in 1732, François left Rome for Florence, where he intended to meet with his uncle Carles and travel from there to Paris. As they were approaching Turin, François was involved in a horse accident and sadly died.

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Paul Klee, 1922

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Pots and Pans by Anthony Brault

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"la venida de cristo" (the cumming of christ)

paintings by fabián chairez (mexico, born 1987) also available as a postcard set

his exhibition in mexico city is currently being targeted by extremist religious groups and christian groups are trying to sue him (X) for his work so i thought i would show all of tumblr

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Tove Jansson - Mysterious Landscape

Finland, 1930

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Otto Dix - Baby With Umbilical Cord

1934, Germany

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Cândido Portinari - Carajá Dancer

1959, Brazil

Cândido Portinari is one of Brazil’s greatest -if not the greatest- painters, and certainly the first to reach that level of international recognition. He is responsible for the famous “War and Peace” mural that decorates the United Nations Headquarters in New York City.

Once referred to as “the Brazilian Picasso”, Portinari seamlessly incorporated the XX Century stylistic innovations from Europe without abandoning the ideals of the brazilian “antropophagia” movement, which advocated for the emergence of an uniquely Brazilian art, by merging European styles and techniques with themes related to the culture of the country, especially its often overlooked indigenous and African roots. (antropophagia literally means “cannibalism,” the devouring and assimilation of all that is human)

While Portinari is hardly considered a member of the 1920s first generation of antropophagues, Carajá Dancer, a 1959 portrait of a woman form the indigenous Carajá people with a clear cubist influence, is proof that his work is a masterful carrying over of those aesthetic ideals into new and even more modern art movements, proving that traditional indigenous culture can and should have a place in the bold and innovative modern culture of the XX Century.

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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec - Study of a Dancer

1888, France

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the grief of growing