Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Thursday, December 19, 2013
Sunday, October 13, 2013
Saturday, October 12, 2013
Friday, October 11, 2013
The Climax
The next time someone asks me what my 'tat' means, now I can just direct them to my blog...after I punch them in the face.
'We feel the elation of Salome as she kisses the lips of the dead prophet whose mouth she has likened to 'ripe fruit' and 'a pomegranate cut in twain with a knife of ivory,' as if his lips truly were meant to be feasted on. Beardsley brilliantly captures and shares the ardor of the moment just after Salome had acquiesced to her necrophilic appetite and in his illustration we see her literally floating in the air, lifted to a state of suspended rapture above a puddle of blood...
In the upper left-hand corner of the picture we are reminded of the 'clusters of black grapes' to which Salome previously compared Iokanaan's hair in the text, again speaking of his body as something to be devoured, ravaged, thus reversing the traditional roles of woman and man in regards to sexuality'
text via www.victorianweb.org
'We feel the elation of Salome as she kisses the lips of the dead prophet whose mouth she has likened to 'ripe fruit' and 'a pomegranate cut in twain with a knife of ivory,' as if his lips truly were meant to be feasted on. Beardsley brilliantly captures and shares the ardor of the moment just after Salome had acquiesced to her necrophilic appetite and in his illustration we see her literally floating in the air, lifted to a state of suspended rapture above a puddle of blood...
In the upper left-hand corner of the picture we are reminded of the 'clusters of black grapes' to which Salome previously compared Iokanaan's hair in the text, again speaking of his body as something to be devoured, ravaged, thus reversing the traditional roles of woman and man in regards to sexuality'
text via www.victorianweb.org
Sunday, September 15, 2013
Why, oh why...
Do things like this no longer happen.
I want to reside in that little house back there.
image found here.
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| 1940s National Biscuit Co. Halloween Spiced Wafer Box and Canco Halloween tin. |
I want to reside in that little house back there.
image found here.
Monday, September 9, 2013
Thursday, September 5, 2013
Autumn Harvest
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| From the 1964 edition of the book Autumn Harvest, by Alvin Tresselt, illustrated by the great Roger Duvoisin. Copyright 1951. |
Monday, September 2, 2013
Saturday, August 31, 2013
Olfaction.
I wish I could find a clear photo of this painting...I think it's wonderful. You can almost smell the smoke from that pile of brush and feel cold air on your cheeks. An ideal setting for me. My goal in life is to simply acquire land and an old farm house...and 5 million dollars.
If this print wasn't sold out, you could purchase it here.
Thursday, August 29, 2013
Phantom Manor
I'm not a Disneyland type...not even close. But I was surprised at how much I adored this photo, and even more surprised to learn that there is a Disneyland in Paris. Disneylands everywhere.
Maybe this is what's wrong with the world.
Maybe this is what's wrong with the world.
From Fall into Autumn
Friday, August 23, 2013
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