nevver:

Moonrise Kingdom

brocreate:

“Perhaps death is not the hardest thing in a painter’s life… looking at the stars always makes me dream, as simply as I dream over the black dots representing towns and villages on a map. Why, I ask myself, shouldn’t the shining dots of the sky be as accessible as the black dots on the map of France? Just as we take the train to get to Tarascon or Rouen, we take death to reach a star…”

— Vincent Van Gogh

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artchipel:

Jon Braley - Untitled. Mixed paint & resin on board, 100 x 100 cm (2010)

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magnolius:

A Tale Of Two Hoodies - a controversial painting by artist/activist Michael D’Antuono. 

Inspired by the Trayvon Martin case, this painting symbolizes the travesty of racially profiling innocent children and how present day prejudices affect policy.

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crashinglybeautiful:

Mark Rothko. Courtesy of fourteenth.

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artandopinion:

Demon

1904

Wojciech Weiss

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tamburina:

Pablo Picasso, La Celestina, 1904

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bbook:

Everywhere in that his diners, motels, gas stations and porches seem so commonplace, so ubiquitously American. Nowhere in that this very ubiquity frees them from specific addresses, cities and street corners. If the diner in “Nighthawks” can be found only in the depths of the American psyche, may it live on.

Jeremiah Moss, “Nighthawks State of Mind.”

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Death and Life by Gustav Klimt

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paperimages:

Edward Hopper - Room in New York [1932]

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stadtjunge:

“the brain” by UNGA אונגה on Flickr.

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explore-blog:

Color codification dot drawings by artist Lauren DiCioccio. To make each painting, she lays a sheet of frosted mylar over a magazine page and assigns a color to every letter, with numbers as shades of grayscale, then applies tiny dots of paint over every character on the page according to the color-code.

“Making the paintings is a lot like solving a cryptogram,” says DiCioccio, “and the result is a legible blur of dots in the form of the article’s layout, a kind of Braille for the color-inclined.”

Also see other examples of color as data visualization for magazines and art. 

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fuckyeahexistentialism:

Before defining art — or any concept — we must answer a far broader question: what’s the meaning of man’s life on earth? 

maybe we are here to enhance ourselves spiritually. if our life tends to this spiritual enrichment… then art is a means to get there. This, of course, in accordance with my definition of life. Art should help man in this process. 

Art enriches man’s own spiritual capabilities and he can then rise above himself to use what we call ‘free will.’

Andrei Tarkovsky on art.

artistandstudio:

Pablo Picasso postcard to Jean Cocteau, St.-Raphaël 1919.

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exhibition-ism:

The Dali-esque portraits of renowned British artist Glenn Brown

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