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pixography: Allison Sommers Allison Sommers is a Brooklyn-based art-worker. A self-taught artist, she graduated from the University of Virginia with a BA in History and a concentration in Early Medieval England. “I am an inveterate magpie: images,
a-r-t-history: Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Odalisque with Slave, 1842, oil on canvas (via The Walters Art Museum)
a-r-t-history: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Hollywood Africans, 1983, mixed media (via Whitney Museum of American Art) what is bwana? pop corn sugar cane tobacco tax free hero.ism self portrait as a heel
anonis-almost-art: ultimareuniverse: Long ago, in a time of disharmony and sorrow, there was a momentous gathering of ponies far and wide for an event promoting love and peace, recognized as one of the largest music concerts in history. There, two young
svalts: Full cover art of Tales of the New Republic // by Paul Youll The saddest moment in the Galactic Empire’s history. Rebel scum.
artschoolglasses: Artistic Movements: Rococo The Rococo style started in the early 18th Century, a favourite of King Louis XV, and fell out of fashion towards the end of the century, making way for more Neoclassical art. The style itself has received
fuckyeahrenaissanceart: Pallas and the Centaur Sandro Botticelli c. 1482 Tempera on wood 207 x 148 cm Galleria degli Uffizi , Florence, Tuscany, Italy In this painting we can see another side of Renaissance Art; namely that of
a-r-t-history: Arshile Gorky, The Betrothal II, 1947, oil on canvas (via Whitney Museum of American Art)
Johannes Vermeer (1632 - 1675), Lady with her Maidservant holding a Letter (1667); oil on canvas
A. Y. Jackson (Alexander Young Jackson, 1882 - 1974), The edge of the maple wood
Giacomo Balla (Torino, 1871 - Roma, 1958), La giornata dell'operaio (lavorano, mangiano, ritornano), 1904 (a worker’s day)
Hans Baldung (1484-85 - 1545), Adoration of the Magi (1507)
Vasilij Dmitrievič Polenov (1844 - 1927), Italian landscape with a peasant (1874)
Charles Sheeler (1883 - 1965)
Alberto Burri [Città di Castello (Perugia), 1915 - Nizza, 1995], Ferro (Iron), 1958
Diego Velazquez (Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez, 1599 - 1660) The buffoon Calabazas (1637-39)
Albert Bloch (1882 - 1961), Figures in the silver light, n/d
Valentin de Boulogne (1591 - 1632), Company with Fortune Teller (1631)
Georges Braque (1882 - 1963), Le Jour (1929)
Isaak Levitan (1860 - 1900) Birches, the forest’s edge (1885)
Frans Hals (1580 - 1666), The fisher girl (1630-32), oil on canvas
Michail Vasil'evič Nesterov (1862 - 1942), The great initiation, taking of the veil (1898)
André Masson (1896 - 1987)
Anita Malfatti (1889 - 1964), La Rentrée (1927)
Hans von Marées (1837 - 1887, Roma), Hesperiden (1884), triptychon, oil on wood, 341 cm x 482 “He […] developed a complex and individual technique, overpainting tempera with layers of oil and creating a depth of colour quite unlike the
Théo van Rysselberghe (1862 - 1926), The burnished hour (1897)
Dosso Dossi (Giovanni Luteri detto Dosso Dossi, c. 1490 - 1542); Giove, Mercurio e la Virtù (1523-24)
André Derain (1880 - 1954), Ball of Soldiers in Suresnes (1903)
Childe Hassam (1859 - 1935), A back road, n/d
Nicolas Poussin (1594 - 1665), The plague at Ashdod (1630) a) via The Athenaeum b) via WikiPaintings
Vittore Carpaccio (Venezia, 1472 - Capodistria, 1526); Meditation on The Passion, c. 1510
Johan Hendrik Weissenbruch (1824 - 1903), Cellar interior, n/d
Tom Thomson (Claremont, Ontario, 1877 - Canoe Lake, Ontario, 1917); Canoe and Lake - Algonquin Park, 1913, oil on canvas
Roberto Matta (Santiago, Chile, 1911 - Civitavecchia, Italy, 2002); Untitled, c. 1948 / 49; oil on canvas, 64 x 85 cm
Lucian Freud (Berlin 1922 - London 2011), Interior at Paddington, 1951
A. Y. Jackson (Alexander Young Jackson; Montreal, Quebec, 1882 - Kleinburg, Ontario, 1974); The entrance to Halifax Harbour, 1919, oil on canvas
David Bomberg (Birmingham 1890 - London 1957); The Southeast Corner, Jerusalem; 1926, oil on canvas
Kai Fjell (Skoger 1907 - Lysaker 1989); Ung Pike - Interior, 1939; oil on canvas
George Wesley Bellows (Columbus, Ohio, 1882 - New York City 1925); Return of the Useless, 1918; oil on canvas
Eva Hesse (Düsseldorf 1936 – New York City 1970); Untitled, 1960
Nicholas Roerich (Saint Petersburg 1874 - Naggar, India, 1947), Kiss the Earth, 1912
Frederic Leighton (Scarborough 1830 - London 1896); The Villa Malta - Rome, 1860’s; oil on canvas; The Gere Collection, long-term loan to the National Gallery, London
David Bomberg (Birmingham 1890 - London 1957); Bideford - Devon, 1946; oil on canvas, 71 x 65 cm; Royal Albert Memorial Museum
Emily Carr (Victoria, British Columbia, 1871 - 1945), Deep Forest, 1931, oil on canvas
Stanislaw Wyspianski (Krakow, 1869 - 1907); Portrait of Eliza Parenska, 1902; pastel on cardboard
Lovis Corinth (Tapiau, Prussia [now Gvardeysk, Russia], 1858 - Zandvoort, 1925); Group of women, 1904; oil on canvas, 119 x 98 cm; Galerie Neue Meister, Dresden
Arthur Beecher Carles (Philadelphia, 1882 - 1952); Abstraction, between 1936 and 1941; oil on canvas
John Minton (Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire, 1917 - 1957 London); The death of James Dean, 1957; oil on canvas, 122 x 183 cm; Tate collection, London
Balthus (Balthasar Kłossowski de Rola; Paris 1908 - Rossinière, Switzerland, 2001); Grand paysage aux arbres (le champ triangulaire), 1955; oil on canvas, 162 x 114 cm; private collection
René Magritte (Lessines 1898 - Brussels 1967); Le tombeau des lutteurs (the tomb of the wrestlers), 1960; oil on canvas, 89 x 116 cm; collection privée, Bologna
imageswithoutbodies:1. Khrua In Khong, People Viewing Giant Lotus, ca. 1865, Wat Bowornniwet Vihara.2. Khrua In Khong, Life of Buddha, 1851-68, Nakhon Pathom, Mondop Phra Phuttabat of Wat Phra Ngam. Mural showing attempts at linear perspective, 3.
poboh: The Upstairs, 1938, Charles Sheeler. American (1883 - 1965) (Source: Museum Syndicate: Experience Art and History )
Sandro Botticelli (Italian, 1445-1510), The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (part one), 1483. Tempera on board, 83 x 138 cm. Museo del Prado, Madrid
Paolo Uccello (Italian, 1397-1475), The Thebaid (Scenes from the Lives of the Hermits), about 1460. Tempera on canvas, 83 x 118 cm; Galleria dell’Accademia, Florence
Moretto da Brescia (Alessandro Bonvicino called il Moretto, Italian, c.1498-1554), Portrait of a Young Man - Fortunato Martinengo Cesaresco? -, c. 1540-1545. Oil on canvas, 114 x 94.5 cm; National Gallery, London
Parmigianino (Italian, 1503-1540), Santa Barbara, c. 1522. Oil on panel, 48 x 39 cm. Museo del Prado, Madrid
Pietro Perugino (Italian, 14), Ascensione di Cristo [Ascension of Christ], Sansepolcro Altarpiece, ca. 1510. Oil on panel, 332.5 x 266 cm; Sansepolcro Cathedral
Sassetta (Stefano di Giovanni di Consolo, Italian, active by 1423 - died 1450), from the Borgo San Sepolcro Altarpiece (1437-1444), The Funeral of Saint Francis and the Verification of the Stigmata. Egg tempera and gold on poplar, 88.5 x 53.5 cm. National
Edvard Munch (Norwegian, 1863-1944), The Dance of Life (Livets dans), between 1899 and 1900. Oil on canvas, 129 x 191 cm; Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo
Guess who painted these works of art? Any idea? The person who painted these pictures wanted to attend the Viennese academy of Fine Arts and become famous as an artist. If he had been accepted by the academy, world history would have been much different.