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artandopinion:

The Wedding of Saint George and the Princess Sabra, 1857

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

O I love this! I love the way he’s holding her; people in old drawings never hold each other like that!

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Salvador Dali, The Phenomenon of Ecstasy, 1933

This might be a philistine’s question, but… are these women having orgasms?

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Mark English

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theeconomist:

Penelope Umbrico’s giant array of photographs of people in front of sunsets was produced by searching for the tag “sunset” on the photo-sharing site, Flickr. It’s just one of the internet-inspired artworks in a New York exhibition entitled “Social Media”.

Fantastic idea. So many little bits & pieces of the world have been snapped, captured, stolen, appropriated throughout the world by a multitude of people in any number of locations - it’s only fit that someone celebrates it.

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artandopinion:

Leaving for the Hunt at Gwalior

circa 1887

Edwin Lord Weeks

Edwin Lord Weeks is known for his paintings in India, but was born in Boston, Massachusetts.

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artandopinion:

Yellow-Red-Blue

 1925

 Wassily Kandinsky

 

This picture is absolutely astonishing. I’ve always had a weakness for colours (esp. in pictures which make numinous the three primary ones!) and this is NO EXCEPTION. AMAZING! 

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Kathleen Clement

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Pablo Picasso

Bathers on the Beach, 1928

Picasso confided in Antonina Vallentin (author): “I adore keys. It seems important to me to have one. It is true that keys have often haunted me. In the series of men and women bathers, there is always a door that they try to open with a large key.”[d]