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classic art simpsons! lovesit!

(Source: insolacion)

orientaltiger:

David Mach sculpted seas of old magazines into giant, swirling waves that appear to be consuming all kinds of objects, from old cars to large pieces of furniture.

cool art of the day

unbuiltroads:

Edward Ruscha’s business card, ca. 1960s, 05 x 09 cm. From the Lucy R. Lippard papers, 1940s-2006. Source: Archives of American Art.

themadposts:

Today - but much less glamorous.

misswallflower:

Gustave Caillebotte, Rue de Paris, temps de pluie, 1877

worldpaintings:

Tamara de Lempicka

Self-Portrait in the Green Bugatti, 1925, oil on wood, private collection.

Tamara de Lempicka was a Polish Art Deco painter and “the first woman artist to be a glamour star.” Her distinctive and bold artistic style developed quickly (influenced most probably by “soft cubism”) and epitomized the cool yet sensual side of the Art Deco movement. She thought that many of the Impressionists drew “badly” and employed “dirty” colors. De Lempicka’s technique would be novel, clean, precise, and elegant. She became one of the most fashionable portrait painters of her generation among the aristocracy, painting duchesses and grand dukes and socialites. Through her network of friends, she was able to display her paintings in the most elite salons of the era.

chagalov:

Edvard Munch, Self-Portrait, atelier of Skrubben, Kragerø, 1909-1910
[Selvportrett i atelieret på Skrubben i Kragerø]

from and more:

• Centre Pompidou (dossier pédagogique)
• Munch-museet

Art gives us an inner superiority, for it has scope for every sensation of which human beings are capable, and first and foremost for love, which is the basis for knowledge. The artist loves without wanting to possess, and no one on earth can understand that except other artists, that is why other people think us mad. - Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

i cannot wait for the warhol shadows exhibition to open this month!

slacktory:

Famous Paintings Interpreted With the Brush Script Font | Slacktory

badass head wrap.

kqedarts:

Gorgeous results of Google Search: “Rothko Orange”

The Artist’s Wife
Egon Schiele
1917

hydeordie:

“Recently come to light after an extended period in private hands, Untitled No. 17 fits squarely among the 18 hitherto documented oils on canvas from 1961. Large, classic canvases that managed to elude my catalogue raisonné are uncommon, and most welcome. At its publication in 1998, I compared the catalogue raisonné project to a sort of homecoming, for a family of works that had been scattered around the world by time and circumstance into public, private and even forgotten places. Absent from my pages then, the rediscovery of Untitled No.17 adds another indelible presence to the great Rothko canon.” - David Anfam

this book was so good! its officially my favorite steve martin book now. seriously, ridiculously good.

Happy birthday to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which opened on this day in 1870. One of my most favorite places in the world.