Ars longa, vita brevis
Maude, xenophile and art enthusiast.
Also 20, studying art history and conservation.
Duane Hanson is one of my all-time favorite artists. His hyper-realist, lifesize sculptures are incredible. See http://bit.ly/KON5XO for more of his art. What do you think of it? Is it creepy? Accurate? Critical? Celebratory? Or … creepily accurate?
c86:Taken from R.R. Tomlinson’s Picture Making by Children, 1934
Kelly Mark
Exist, 2009
Powder coated aluminum with LED lights(via Kelly Mark: Sculpture)
I like the way you’ve juxtaposed these very different takes on human/superhuman forms. I’ve got to get to Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art!
Weird creatures in weird positions. (Taken with Instagram at Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art)
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I should have loved a thunderbird instead;
At least when spring comes they roar back again.
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Gorgeous vintage posters from the golden age of travel, now available as prints.
“Shantell Martin, a London-born artist whose line drawings adorn the walls of private homes and companies, has made her room in Brooklyn her canvas.”
» NYTimes.
Sculptress Abigail Tulis in the Grand Central Academy. Photograph by Jonathan Becker.
A second-grader asks Neil deGrasse Tyson whether two black holes can collide and swallow one another. The answer involves backwards time travel – enough said.