bizarrereverie:

Andrew Wyeth, Witching Hour (1977)

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apoetreflects:

Painting: Joseph Mallord William Turner, Moonlight, a Study at Millbank, 1797

likeafieldmouse:

Francisco Goya - Fire at Night (1793-4) - Oil on tinplate

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fuckyeahdochammer:

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“I’m going through my my old painting catalogue and I can’t find another image this fucking thing. (Saint No.49.) Then I realized that if you can’t look at the actual painting, this might be the best way to see it. Now you know the painting as an object, not an image. When it’s just a picure of the painting you feel like you’ve seen it. But you’ve only seen a photograph of the image. I kinda feel like this might help one see that they are only looking at a photo, not the painting. Or I’m going nuts because I haven’t painted in too fucking long. OR! A combination of both!”

fuckyeahvintageillustration:

nocnitsa:

Manuscript Found in a Bottle, Harry Clarke, 1923.

“The colossal waters rear their heads above us like demons of the deep.”

‘MS. Found in a Bottle’ is an 1833 short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. The plot follows an unnamed narrator at sea who finds himself in a series of harrowing circumstances. As he nears his own disastrous death while his ship drives ever southward, he writes an “MS.”, or manuscript telling of his adventures which he casts into the sea.

Part of  the illustrations for ‘Tales of Mystery and Imagination’ by Edgar Allan Poe. Published 1933 by Tudor Publishing, New York. See more pictures here.

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tierradentro:

“Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time [Allegory of the Triumph of Venus]” (detail), 1545, Agnolo Bronzino. (via)

“Crowded into the claustrophobic foreground of the painting are several figures whose identities have been the subject of extensive scholarly debate. (…) The old woman rending her hair has been called Jealousy—though some believe her to represent the ravaging effects of syphilis (result of unwise intercourse)”. (from the Wikipedia)

artdetails:

Salvador Dalí, Printemps Nécrophilique (detail), 1936

heartbloodspirit:

Gustave Doré | Le Mont Cervin (1878)

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jpjones1970:

this is a commission piece from Douglas Lovelace, storyboard artist for The Venture Bros. The hardest part about this picture was deciding which 3 characters i wanted him to include. I finally chose S.P.H.I.N.X.(sphinx!) because i had to have Brock in the mix and adding Hunter Gathers and Shoreleave sealed the deal. Good times.

Ahhh!

art-library:

Diego Velazquez, Las Meninas (The Maids of Honor), 1656.

Velazquez intended this huge and complex work, with its cunning contrasts of true spaces, mirrored spaces, and picture spaces, to elevate both himself and the profession of painting.

J. M. W. Turner: storms.

Snow Storm: Hannibal and His Army Crossing the Alps, 1812
Wreckers Coast of Northumberland, 1833
Fishermen at Sea, 1796

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cavetocanvas:

Franz von Stuck, The Murderer, 1891

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grimly-fiendish:

Franz von Stuck: Sin, 1893

nevver:

Edmund Dulac

Bodies & Shadows: Caravaggio and his Legacy at LACMA (November 11, 2012 – February 10, 2013) 

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