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susanvance: 03/100: Marlon Brando
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truesouls: Michael Fassbender » 1 of 100
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sebastianwaters: Il Ratto di Proserpina(Gian Lorenzo Bernini), 1621/22 (…) the group shows Pluto taking a fast and powerful stride and grasping Proserpina, from the front he appears triumphantly bearing his trophy in his arms; from the right one sees Proserpina’s tears as she prays to heaven, the wind blowing her hair, as the guardian of Hades, the three-headed dog, barks. Various moments of the story are thus summed up in a single sculpture. This is no photo or painting, this is a fucking big marble sculpture(!).
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eatmebiteme: A daily routine by MATCHS on Flickr.
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thelittlefrenchbullblog: Kilim Chair…..looks so cozy!!
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cavetocanvas: Thomas Couture, Reverie, 1840-41 From the Norton Simon Museum: This delicate painting by Thomas Couture is not a portrait but a tête d’expression: a study of the face intended to evoke a particular state of mind. The practice of infusing the depiction of a model’s face with a dreamy or wistful expression often made its way into portrait painting, particularly in portraits of women. In Reverie, exhibited at the Salon of 1841, a young girl peers suggestively out of the corners of her eyes, sizing up the viewer with adolescent curiosity. Her dewy cheeks, bedroom eyes and exposed décolletage put forth an aura of sexual availability that carried into, if subtly, the more traditional portraits of the mid-nineteenth century. Even though the tête d‘expression was a common academic exercise, Couture’s studies in particular had an impact on the artists of his day. For instance, Gustave Courbet’s moody self-portraits from the 1840s possess the same dreamy undertones. Likewise, Couture’s pupils, among them Édouard Manet and Marcellin Desboutin, were influenced by the veiled feminine seduction at work here.
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bohemea: Nicole Kidman - Bazaar Australia by Will Davidson, June/July 2012
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