Tumbling Dice

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Sat, 18 May 2013 23:14:33 -0400

thehighlandrape: JACKSON POLLOCK - Full Fathom Five...

Sat, 18 May 2013 23:13:46 -0400

JACKSON POLLOCK - Full Fathom Five (Detail) (1947)

Oil on canvas with nails, tacks, buttons, key, coins, cigarettes, matches, etc. 129.2 x 76.5 cm,

artmastered: ART TIMELINE: 1835 Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot,...

Sat, 18 May 2013 21:54:38 -0400

artmastered:

ART TIMELINE: 1835

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Venice, La Piazzetta, 1835

Samuel Butler, Mr Heatherley’s Holiday: An Incident in Studio Life, 1874

Caspar David Friedrich, Stages of Life, 1835

german-expressionists: Wassily Kandinsky, Small Worlds VII,...

Sat, 18 May 2013 21:54:23 -0400

german-expressionists:

Wassily Kandinsky, Small Worlds VII, 1922

peril: Snow Storm - Steam-Boat off a Harbour’s Mouth (exhibited...

Sat, 18 May 2013 21:53:11 -0400

peril:

Snow Storm - Steam-Boat off a Harbour’s Mouth (exhibited 1842), oil on canvas, Tate Britain, London | artwork by Joseph Mallord William Turner

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Sat, 18 May 2013 21:53:04 -0400

itsjohnsen: Cheers in London as the war in Europe comes to an...

Sat, 18 May 2013 21:52:44 -0400

itsjohnsen:

Cheers in London as the war in Europe comes to an end. VE Day, May 8, 1945.
BBC

lyghtmylife: QUELLINUS, Erasmus II [Flemish Baroque...

Sat, 18 May 2013 21:52:22 -0400

lyghtmylife:

QUELLINUS, Erasmus II

[Flemish Baroque Era Painter, 1607-1678]

Still-Life in an Architectural Setting
c. 1645
Oil on canvas, 112 x 83 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

h4ilstorm: Deer with Magpies (by paulafrenchp)

Sat, 18 May 2013 21:51:34 -0400

h4ilstorm:

Deer with Magpies (by paulafrenchp)

monsieuruntitled: Joseba Eskubi

Sat, 18 May 2013 21:50:08 -0400

monsieuruntitled:

Joseba Eskubi

german-expressionists: Chronik K.G. Brücke, (1913) von Ernst...

Sat, 18 May 2013 18:31:26 -0400

german-expressionists:

Chronik K.G. Brücke, (1913) von Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

(abgedruckt in dem Programm von einer Kunst Ausstellung in der Kunsthalle Bern, 1948)

see English translation here

"With dispassionate despair, with entire disillusionment, I surveyed the dust dance; my life, my..."

Sat, 18 May 2013 18:31:20 -0400

“With dispassionate despair, with entire disillusionment, I surveyed the dust dance; my life, my friends’ lives, the willow tree by the river — clouds and phantoms made of dust too, of dust that changed, as clouds lose and gain and take gold or red and lose their summits and billow this way and that, mutable, vain. I, carrying my notebooks, making phrases, had recorded merely changes; a shadow, I had been sedulous to take note of shadows. How can I proceed now, I said, without a self, weightless and visionlesss, through a world weightless, without illusion?”

- Virginia Woolf, from The Waves (via violentwavesofemotion)

Artist: Ivan Aivazovsky

Sat, 18 May 2013 18:30:21 -0400

Artist: Ivan Aivazovsky

antonperreau: Peek-a-boo. #London #PortcullisHouse...

Sat, 18 May 2013 18:29:11 -0400

antonperreau:

Peek-a-boo. #London #PortcullisHouse #ElizabethTower #BigBen #Clock #Parliament #Clouds #PortcullisHouse #NorthBank #LDN #ERII #ER2 #WorldHeritage #DingDong (at Portcullis House)

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Sat, 18 May 2013 18:28:20 -0400

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Sat, 18 May 2013 18:26:26 -0400

dutch-and-flemish-painters: Cornelis van der Meulen - View of...

Fri, 17 May 2013 08:56:31 -0400

dutch-and-flemish-painters:

Cornelis van der Meulen - View of Stockholm, 1691

Cornelis van der Meulen (1642, Dordrecht – 1691, Stockholm), was a Dutch Golden Age painter.

According to Houbraken he was a portrait painter who had been a pupil of Samuel van Hoogstraten.

According to the RKD he was a pupil of Samuel van Hoogstraten and made clever vanitas and trompe l’oeil paintings. He moved to Sweden in 1679.

bofransson: Andrew Gifford - Farmhouse Near Arles

Fri, 17 May 2013 08:53:51 -0400

bofransson:

Andrew Gifford - Farmhouse Near Arles

mucholderthen: NATURAL HISTORY ILLUSTRATIONS from Albertus...

Fri, 17 May 2013 08:52:45 -0400

mucholderthen:

NATURAL HISTORY ILLUSTRATIONS

from Albertus Seba
Locupletissimi Rerum Naturalium Thesauri Accurata Descriptio et Iconibus Artificiosissmis Expressio per Universam Physices Historiam

AMSTERDAM: 1734-1765

The most complete record of any of the eighteenth-century cabinets of natural history.

Albertus Seba was an apothecary in Amsterdam who became rich in the service of the Dutch East India Company. During this time the Dutch, through the Company, commanded the most extensive network of trade and colonies in the world, and it was by exploiting this that Seba managed to acquire his collection.

Accordingly, Seba gathered a vast array of specimens from Sri Lanka, Greenland, Indonesia and other far-flung places. Many specimens were South American, particularly Brazilian; these came to him via the Dutch colony in Surinam.

The present work is a catalogue of his second and grandest cabinet of natural rarities, including mammals, birds, plants, insects, butterflies, reptiles, amphibians, fish, crustaceans, shells, minerals and fossils.

Seba’s cabinet played an important part in Linnaeus’s classification of the natural world. … Maria Sybilla Merian made use of the cabinet in her great work on Surinamese insects.

Many of Seba’s specimens still survive in European museums.

( Sotheby’s )

oot-n-aboot: Sunset on the Scott Monument, Edinburgh,...

Fri, 17 May 2013 08:52:28 -0400

oot-n-aboot:

Sunset on the Scott Monument, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Photo © B.B February 2013.