One of my favorite paintings - Judith Slaying Holofernes I will never forget learning about this painting in art history in high school - the allusion to castration is most obvious in the resemblance of Holofernes’ shoulder to a man’s upper leg. I saw one of the 2 versions of this painting at the Museum of Women in the Arts in D.C via Wikipedia: “[Artemisia Gentileschi] drew herself as Judith and her mentor Agostino Tassi, who was tried in court for her rape, as Holofernes. Gentileschi’s biographer Mary Garrard famously proposed an autobiographical reading of the painting, stating that it functions as “a cathartic expression of the artist’s private, and perhaps repressed, rage.”
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One of my favorite paintings - Judith Slaying Holofernes

I will never forget learning about this painting in art history in high school - the allusion to castration is most obvious in the resemblance of Holofernes’ shoulder to a man’s upper leg. I saw one of the 2 versions of this painting at the Museum of Women in the Arts in D.C

via Wikipedia:

“[Artemisia Gentileschi] drew herself as Judith and her mentor Agostino Tassi, who was tried in court for her rape, as Holofernes. Gentileschi’s biographer Mary Garrard famously proposed an autobiographical reading of the painting, stating that it functions as “a cathartic expression of the artist’s private, and perhaps repressed, rage.”

swanngalleries: Czech posters from the collection of Nicholas & George Lowry will be on view in the Netherlands this month. The exhibition opens Sunday, March 24 at the Affichemuseum, or Poster museum, in Hoorn. My boss Nicho’s amazing collection of Czech posters
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swanngalleries: Czech posters from the collection of Nicholas & George Lowry will be on view in the Netherlands this month. The exhibition opens Sunday, March 24 at the Affichemuseum, or Poster museum, in Hoorn. My boss Nicho’s amazing collection of Czech posters
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swanngalleries: Czech posters from the collection of Nicholas & George Lowry will be on view in the Netherlands this month. The exhibition opens Sunday, March 24 at the Affichemuseum, or Poster museum, in Hoorn. My boss Nicho’s amazing collection of Czech posters
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swanngalleries: Czech posters from the collection of Nicholas & George Lowry will be on view in the Netherlands this month. The exhibition opens Sunday, March 24 at the Affichemuseum, or Poster museum, in Hoorn. My boss Nicho’s amazing collection of Czech posters
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swanngalleries:

Czech posters from the collection of Nicholas & George Lowry will be on view in the Netherlands this month. The exhibition opens Sunday, March 24 at the Affichemuseum, or Poster museum, in Hoorn.

My boss Nicho’s amazing collection of Czech posters

My favorite Popes - The screaming ones by Francis Bacon, based on the painting of Pope Innocent X by Velazquez. Bacon was also openly gay, which adds another dimension to these paintings, I think. A snippet from Wikipedia: “In Bacon’s version of Velázquez’s masterpiece, the Pope is shown screaming yet his voice is “silenced” by the enclosing drapes and dark rich colors. The dark colors of the background lend a grotesque and nightmarish tone to the painting.[3] The pleated curtains of the backdrop are rendered transparent and appear to fall through the representation of the Pope’s face.[4]”
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My favorite Popes - The screaming ones by Francis Bacon, based on the painting of Pope Innocent X by Velazquez. Bacon was also openly gay, which adds another dimension to these paintings, I think. A snippet from Wikipedia: “In Bacon’s version of Velázquez’s masterpiece, the Pope is shown screaming yet his voice is “silenced” by the enclosing drapes and dark rich colors. The dark colors of the background lend a grotesque and nightmarish tone to the painting.[3] The pleated curtains of the backdrop are rendered transparent and appear to fall through the representation of the Pope’s face.[4]”
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My favorite Popes - The screaming ones by Francis Bacon, based on the painting of Pope Innocent X by Velazquez. Bacon was also openly gay, which adds another dimension to these paintings, I think. A snippet from Wikipedia: “In Bacon’s version of Velázquez’s masterpiece, the Pope is shown screaming yet his voice is “silenced” by the enclosing drapes and dark rich colors. The dark colors of the background lend a grotesque and nightmarish tone to the painting.[3] The pleated curtains of the backdrop are rendered transparent and appear to fall through the representation of the Pope’s face.[4]”
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My favorite Popes - The screaming ones by Francis Bacon, based on the painting of Pope Innocent X by Velazquez. Bacon was also openly gay, which adds another dimension to these paintings, I think. A snippet from Wikipedia: “In Bacon’s version of Velázquez’s masterpiece, the Pope is shown screaming yet his voice is “silenced” by the enclosing drapes and dark rich colors. The dark colors of the background lend a grotesque and nightmarish tone to the painting.[3] The pleated curtains of the backdrop are rendered transparent and appear to fall through the representation of the Pope’s face.[4]”
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My favorite Popes - The screaming ones by Francis Bacon, based on the painting of Pope Innocent X by Velazquez. Bacon was also openly gay, which adds another dimension to these paintings, I think. A snippet from Wikipedia: “In Bacon’s version of Velázquez’s masterpiece, the Pope is shown screaming yet his voice is “silenced” by the enclosing drapes and dark rich colors. The dark colors of the background lend a grotesque and nightmarish tone to the painting.[3] The pleated curtains of the backdrop are rendered transparent and appear to fall through the representation of the Pope’s face.[4]”
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My favorite Popes - The screaming ones by Francis Bacon, based on the painting of Pope Innocent X by Velazquez. Bacon was also openly gay, which adds another dimension to these paintings, I think.

A snippet from Wikipedia: “In Bacon’s version of Velázquez’s masterpiece, the Pope is shown screaming yet his voice is “silenced” by the enclosing drapes and dark rich colors. The dark colors of the background lend a grotesque and nightmarish tone to the painting.[3] The pleated curtains of the backdrop are rendered transparent and appear to fall through the representation of the Pope’s face.[4]”

Source: Wikipedia

whitneymuseum: Our founder Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney was born today in 1875. Here’s a delightful drawing of her by John Singer Sargent. John Singer Sargent (1856–1925), Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, c. 1913. Charcoal and graphite on paper, 24 5/8 × 19 5/8 in. (62.5 × 49.8 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Flora Miller Biddle, Pamela T. LeBoutillier, Whitney Tower, and Leverett S. Miller 92.22 I did a drawing once of her in this outfit too! haha - http://laurensartwork.tumblr.com/post/22558381482/gertrude-whitney-pencil-2011 Nothing compared to Sargent, of course, but still
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Our founder Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney was born today in 1875. Here’s a delightful drawing of her by John Singer Sargent.

John Singer Sargent (1856–1925), Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, c. 1913. Charcoal and graphite on paper, 24 5/8 × 19 5/8 in. (62.5 × 49.8 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Flora Miller Biddle, Pamela T. LeBoutillier, Whitney Tower, and Leverett S. Miller 92.22

I did a drawing once of her in this outfit too! haha - http://laurensartwork.tumblr.com/post/22558381482/gertrude-whitney-pencil-2011

Nothing compared to Sargent, of course, but still

One of my favorite exhibits I’ve seen at The Met! theoddmentemporium: Sixty years before the embrace of collage techniques by avant-garde artists of the early twentieth century, aristocratic Victorian women were already experimenting with photocollage. The compositions they made with photographs and watercolors are whimsical and fantastical, combining human heads and animal bodies, placing people into imaginary landscapes, and morphing faces into common household objects. Such images, often made for albums, reveal the educated minds as well as the accomplished hands of their makers. With sharp wit and dramatic shifts of scale akin to those Alice experienced in Wonderland, these images stand the rather serious conventions of early photography on their heads.  Images 1 and 2 Source : Image 4 Source : Image 5 Source : Image 6 Source
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One of my favorite exhibits I’ve seen at The Met! theoddmentemporium: Sixty years before the embrace of collage techniques by avant-garde artists of the early twentieth century, aristocratic Victorian women were already experimenting with photocollage. The compositions they made with photographs and watercolors are whimsical and fantastical, combining human heads and animal bodies, placing people into imaginary landscapes, and morphing faces into common household objects. Such images, often made for albums, reveal the educated minds as well as the accomplished hands of their makers. With sharp wit and dramatic shifts of scale akin to those Alice experienced in Wonderland, these images stand the rather serious conventions of early photography on their heads.  Images 1 and 2 Source : Image 4 Source : Image 5 Source : Image 6 Source
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One of my favorite exhibits I’ve seen at The Met! theoddmentemporium: Sixty years before the embrace of collage techniques by avant-garde artists of the early twentieth century, aristocratic Victorian women were already experimenting with photocollage. The compositions they made with photographs and watercolors are whimsical and fantastical, combining human heads and animal bodies, placing people into imaginary landscapes, and morphing faces into common household objects. Such images, often made for albums, reveal the educated minds as well as the accomplished hands of their makers. With sharp wit and dramatic shifts of scale akin to those Alice experienced in Wonderland, these images stand the rather serious conventions of early photography on their heads.  Images 1 and 2 Source : Image 4 Source : Image 5 Source : Image 6 Source
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One of my favorite exhibits I’ve seen at The Met! theoddmentemporium: Sixty years before the embrace of collage techniques by avant-garde artists of the early twentieth century, aristocratic Victorian women were already experimenting with photocollage. The compositions they made with photographs and watercolors are whimsical and fantastical, combining human heads and animal bodies, placing people into imaginary landscapes, and morphing faces into common household objects. Such images, often made for albums, reveal the educated minds as well as the accomplished hands of their makers. With sharp wit and dramatic shifts of scale akin to those Alice experienced in Wonderland, these images stand the rather serious conventions of early photography on their heads.  Images 1 and 2 Source : Image 4 Source : Image 5 Source : Image 6 Source
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One of my favorite exhibits I’ve seen at The Met! theoddmentemporium: Sixty years before the embrace of collage techniques by avant-garde artists of the early twentieth century, aristocratic Victorian women were already experimenting with photocollage. The compositions they made with photographs and watercolors are whimsical and fantastical, combining human heads and animal bodies, placing people into imaginary landscapes, and morphing faces into common household objects. Such images, often made for albums, reveal the educated minds as well as the accomplished hands of their makers. With sharp wit and dramatic shifts of scale akin to those Alice experienced in Wonderland, these images stand the rather serious conventions of early photography on their heads.  Images 1 and 2 Source : Image 4 Source : Image 5 Source : Image 6 Source
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One of my favorite exhibits I’ve seen at The Met! theoddmentemporium: Sixty years before the embrace of collage techniques by avant-garde artists of the early twentieth century, aristocratic Victorian women were already experimenting with photocollage. The compositions they made with photographs and watercolors are whimsical and fantastical, combining human heads and animal bodies, placing people into imaginary landscapes, and morphing faces into common household objects. Such images, often made for albums, reveal the educated minds as well as the accomplished hands of their makers. With sharp wit and dramatic shifts of scale akin to those Alice experienced in Wonderland, these images stand the rather serious conventions of early photography on their heads.  Images 1 and 2 Source : Image 4 Source : Image 5 Source : Image 6 Source
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One of my favorite exhibits I’ve seen at The Met!

theoddmentemporium:

Sixty years before the embrace of collage techniques by avant-garde artists of the early twentieth century, aristocratic Victorian women were already experimenting with photocollage. The compositions they made with photographs and watercolors are whimsical and fantastical, combining human heads and animal bodies, placing people into imaginary landscapes, and morphing faces into common household objects. Such images, often made for albums, reveal the educated minds as well as the accomplished hands of their makers. With sharp wit and dramatic shifts of scale akin to those Alice experienced in Wonderland, these images stand the rather serious conventions of early photography on their heads. 

Images 1 and 2 Source : Image 4 Source : Image 5 Source : Image 6 Source

neo-victoriana: From the Tom Knox and Todd Longstaffe-Gown Collection. Part of the Secret Museum Exhibition ( http://www.astropop.com/secretmuseum/ ) photography series by Jenna Eppstein of Morbid Anatomy ( http://morbidanatomy.blogspot.com )
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From the Tom Knox and Todd Longstaffe-Gown Collection. Part of the Secret Museum Exhibition ( http://www.astropop.com/secretmuseum/ ) photography series by Jenna Eppstein of Morbid Anatomy ( http://morbidanatomy.blogspot.com )