Erik Olson: Space.
Park ave show!! I’m honored to participate, but there are so many people here and I don’t know how to schmooze.
Artemisia Gentileschi, “Judith Slaying Holofernes”/Destiny’s Child, “Independent Women”
oh. my. god.
and now I have soup on my shirt. also Beyonce Art History. Dead.
This.
“some historians think that michelangelo was drawing god in a human brain. very few people knew what one looked like at the time; but michelangelo had dissected cadavers and would have known. it even has the hint of a brain stem. if true this would have been a great “fuck you” to the pope whom he was not friendly with but also would have meant god was in a human brain, or created by man.”
Interesting.
also michelangelo painted a baby angel flipping off the pope
the blond one, you see his right hand? that’s called the fig and it’s an old world european gesture for ‘fuck you” because apparently Pope Juluis II was a total raging asshole and everyone hated him
but nobody ever noticed this little fucker because the ceiling was so high
and then thirty years later they called michelangelo back to paint the wall behind the altar and he wasted no time in painting the gates of hell behind the pope’s chair
what a badass
It amuses me to this day how much Michelangelo hated his job
He was like the Renaissance Robert Pattinson
He was like the Renaissance Robert Pattinson
Vincent Van Gogh - ‘In spite of everything’
this is beautiful
I have a lot of deep and personal feelings about this. It is going to take me a minute, the wind has been knocked form me.
Hyperrealistic Animals Created by Painting on Layers of Resin
Wait…those…aren’t real? What.
These are so amazing! Watching that video of him working just shows how talented he is O.O
My mum showed me this. They’re reopening the Rijksmuseum, where you can find famous paintings like De Nachtwacht (The Night Watch). Thought this was a rather interesting way to announce the reopening.
