Vogue cover from April, 1944 by Salvador Dali.
(via cavetocanvas)
art history for the rest of us
What I lovingly refer to as Greco’s They Might Be Giants
El Greco, St. John the Evangelist and St. John the Baptist, 1607
John and John….get it?
I adore this woman. Louise Bourgeois, she died on May 31st of last year (also known as my birthday). Her work is raw and ridiculously Freudian. She managed up until her dying day to make beauty out of her traumatizing childhood memories.
oh so famous and oh so dirty dirty
Lets talk about sex. Or rather not faking a headache when your hubby wants some. 
Botticelli, Primavera,1482
Its pretty, they’re frolicking and dancing, and no one wants to notice Zephyrus raping Chloris over to the right. But she came out of it as Flora, so that’s awesome…..right?
Basically: Wives submit to your husband and make some babies! Woot!
HEY STELLLLLAAAAAA!!!
(yea I went there)
Frank Stella, The Marriage of Reason and Squalor, II, 1959
Here’s a dose of Minimalism for ya.
Think of it as a response to abstract expressionism and action painting. Also, I love Stella’s WYSIWYG mentality. (Though if you’re a studio art major, most professors won’t let that fly, sorry guys.)
Why Renaissance Art is Not Lame. Part I
Hieronymus Bosh, The Garden of Earthly Delights (right panel)
Prince of Hell having some dinner. Notice the various instruments around him(and er..how they are being used)
Lucifer was said to be the angel of music before he was fallen, nice to see him putting that talent to use.
Epochs do not have essences, history does not work by all governing unities, and works of art in their quirkiness tend to resist generalities.” -Kirk Varnedoe
