A couple of female Christs

Two more for the growing collection.

Jacques Richard, Ave Maria (1984)

Jiri Ruzek, Nun's boudoir (2011)

"Trellis", by James Merrill

Again, ramshackle skeleton,
You spare the house what is about to happen.

Out of nowhere, up from the bleak ground,
My greedy twinings overcome your frame,

Climb, put blue suns forth, suicidally thicken,
And, spoiled at summer's end no doubt

By so much wooden acquiescence, brag
Of having woken a response in you.

Who can say? A night is coming, I remember,
When I share your body with frost. A second,

And I withdraw into myself for winter.
Never mind. I'll bloom next year.

You only, love's uncomprehending object,
Will be replaced after a season or two.

"Aboard the Ship", by Constantin Cavafy

It certainly resembles him, this small
pencil likeness of him.
 
Quickly done, on the deck of the ship:
an enchanting afternoon.
The Ionian Sea all around us.
 
It resembles him. Still, I remember him as handsomer.
To the point of illness: that's how sensitive he was,
and it illumined his expression.
Handsomer, he seems to me,
now that my soul recalls him, out of Time.
 
Out of Time. All these things, they're very old—
the sketch, and the ship, and the afternoon.

Klimt, Bethan Laura Wood

Medizin (1897)

Bethan Laura Wood

Sexy danger: Siren, Angel

Funerary siren, Louvre (I Century bC)

Adriana Lima at a Victoria's Secret show (2008)

Taken from "On Chesil Beach", by Ian McEwan

 Right!

"She adored his curious mind, his mild country accent, the huge strength in his hands, the unpredictable swerves and drifts of his conversation, his kindness to her, and the way his soft brown eyes, resting on her when she spoke, made her feel enveloped in a friendly cloud of love."

Leonard Freed, Enrique G de la G

 Leonard Freed, Waiting at the airport, Amsterdam (1964)

Enrique G de la G, After the fair (2008)

– the story behind this pic –

Olafur Eliasson, Fulldome

Olafur Eliasson, Berlin Colour Sphere (2007)

B3, Fulldome (2013)

Intelligentsia: Brassaï, Rogelio Cuéllar

Standing: Jacques Lacan, Cécile Éluard, Pierre Reverdy, Louise Leiris, Zanie de Campan, Pablo Picasso, Valentine Hugo, Simone de Beauvoir.

On the floor: Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Michel Leiris, Jean Aubier.

Brassaï, Paris (1943)

Standing: Tomás Segovia, Gabriel Zaid, Marie-Jose Paz, Alejandro Rossi, José de la Colina, Salvador Elizondo.

On the floor: Octavio Paz, Juan García Ponce, Michelle Albán, Kazuya Sakai.

Rogelio Cuéllar, Mexico City (1975)

Robert Capa: 100th anniversary

One hundred years ago, Robert Capa was born.

Don't look back: Wyeth, Richter

"But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt."

Genesis 19:26

Andrew Wyeth, Christina's world (1948)

Gerhard Richter, Betty (1988)

Art in the street: Joshua Bell, Banksy

Washington subway (2007)

New York City's Central Park (2013)

Hands: A history of love

A royal hand, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Akhenaten (ca. 1349–1336 bC)

Michelangelo, Creation of Adam (1511-1512)

Rudolf Bonvie, Dialog 2 (1973)

Rudolf Bonvie, Dialog 13 (1973)

Hands of Nefertiti and Akhenaten, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Akhenaten (ca. 1350 bC).

Shadows: Camels, Cyclists

George Steinmetz (2005)

Sebastian Boue (2013)

3D printed gun bought by a museum

There has been much uproar –obviously– because of the American guy who 3D-printed a gun and uploaded the design to the internet. There was even an interesting docu film made by Vice.

Now, the Victoria & Albert Museum bought it. Even more uproar. (Look at the aesthetics of the pic!)

The paradox was pointed out by Jonathan Jones:

"What this gun really shows is the human propensity to make the worst of its own intellectual power. Within a few years of the Wright brothers making human flight a reality, war planes took to the air. As soon as nuclear fission was achieved, it was used to destroy cities. Now, as soon as 3D printing opens up a new age of design, it is used to preach the might of the gun."

Marylinne Robinson dixit

I am afraid I had never reflected upon the etymology of the word "novel", until now, when Marylinne Robinson draw my attention to it thanks to an interview:

"A novel by its nature is new."

Floating: Ophelia, Neil Armstrong

 John Everett Millais, Ophelia (1851-1852)

 Paul Fryer, Ophelia (2007)

 Neil Armstrong (1967)

Architecture: Roof triangles

Hans Sharoun, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (1978)

 David Chipperfield, Museo de la Colección Jumex (2013)

Vivian Maier's 8mm films

The photographic wonder Vivian Maier shot also 8mm films! This is the first one I just saw.

And please notice how obesity was unknown few decades ago.

Kate Moss Christ

It seems that girly Christs have become a trend. Now, photographer Nick Knight presented a sculpture of Kate Moss... as winged Christ: with thorn crown and loincloth.

"En puntas", by Javier Pérez

A few months ago I posted a sharp picture by Javier Pérez: a girl crucified on knives.

He now published a short version of a longer clip: a ballerina dancing on knives. 

Beautiful mess

Patternity is doubtless my favorite and most inspiring, from an aesthetical point of view, page on the web. It is intriguing, challenging, sweet, subtile and mind blowing. It helps to understand beauty from a pattern point of view. Now, even trash or mess can look really beautiful, if you look smartly.

"Manifestation", with Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

Nothing compares to a nice female body: Paris vs. Malibu.

Keine Zeit fürs Internet

This is the story of a 26-year old German girl who has never been online and has no interest in doing so. I thought I was a maverick since I do not use cell phones, but am just amateurish...

Published yesterday on the FAS.

Jesse Prinz dixit

"Popular taste tends to be sentimental, saccharine, and overly concerned with prettiness".
Really Bad Taste, p.97