For those of you who don’t understand archaeology, I have made a diagram.
Justin Barton’s photographs of some most opulent interiors
(Source: charcoal-chalk)
The Ambassador Hotel Frankston. Melbourne, Australia
as a Dario Argento nut, for me this was creepy as hell walking through Suspiria-like rooms
Keng Lye - Alive without Breath (2013) - Hyperrealist sea animals created using acrylics and epoxy resin, layer by layer
WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK. *KILLS SELF IN ALL CAPS*
Edgar Degas, Woman in a Tub
c.1883, Pastel on paper
This pastel is one of the most delicately executed and finely resolved of all Degas’ studies of the nude. It belongs to a celebrated series of pastels of women at their toilette produced in the mid-1880s, a group of which was included in an exhibition of Impressionist painters in Paris in 1886. Critics varied in their reactions to these works. Some praised the way Degas showed plausible, modern women rather than idealized goddesses. Others complained of the models’ ugliness and suggested they were prostitutes. In this pastel, however, there are no indications of the woman’s social class or line of work. [x]
Not the kind of thing I usually post on here, but this is beautiful! Definitely inspiration for a future tattoo…
(Source: vvinteralopex)
Hyperrealistic Painting by Monica Cook
George Catlin, Prairie Meadows Burning, 1832
From the Smithsonian American Art Museum:
George Catlin painted ominous, swirling clouds of black smoke that loom out of the distance and drive the Indians before them. The artist was an eyewitness to such terrifying events, and described the fire’s “thunder rumbling as it goes.” But he also wrote that prairie fires made for “some of the most beautiful scenes that are to be witnessed in this country, and also some of the most sublime.”