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I think its funny how drastically people can change

this is not directed towards anyoone or anything

i was just thinking  

flasd: Drawings of Comet Halley, 1836, by John Herschel.   Gouache on black fabric mounted on paper.   Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin.
artnotartnot: Günther Förg
sfmoma: HAPPY NO PANTS DAY! The first Friday in May is a day for celebrating the absence of pants. We pulled a few works from our collection that loosely fit that theme. Enjoy! Pictured above: Alphonse Mucha, Untitled (Female Nude), ca. 1899 Martin Venezky, Notes on the West: Dual, 1993 Cindy Sherman, Untitled Film Still #6, 1977  Salvador Dalí, Oedipus Complex, 1930  Paul Sarkisian, Untitled (Waynesboro, PA.), 1969  Rineke Dijkstra, Odessa, Ukraine, August 11, 1993, 1993 Martin Kippenberger, 9 Gründe, die Preise zu erhöhen (9 Reasons for Raising Prices), from the…, 1987 Joan Brown, Woman Wearing Mask, 1972 Unknown, Untitled [Man and woman posing with a prop], ca. 1930s-1940s Paul Klee, Zwei Männer, einander in höherer Stellung vermutend, begegnen sich…, 1903 Christos Marcopoulos and Carol Moukheiber, Mirror House, from the Domestic Research series, 1998-1999 John Coplans, Self-Portrait: Back Torso from Below and Variation, ca. 1985
artandopinion: Hercules Fighting with the Nemean Lion 1634 Francisco de Zubaran

I FORGOT ABOUT MY PEARLY BUTT

cavetocanvas: Kenneth Noland, Oakum, 1970 From the National Gallery of Australia: Between 1967 and 1970 Noland worked on a body of horizontally striped, rectangular paintings, completing more than two hundred. He had begun using this format earlier, while still exploring the variations in his series of diamond-shaped canvases (1964-67). These early horizontal striped paintings were long and thin and loosely painted with the brush. By the time this type of painting became Noland’s main concern, in 1967, he took on assistants for the first time and began using masking tape to give precision to the stripes. The usual procedure was to staple a length of canvas to the floor, paint on the stripes using tape to guide the edges of each line, then crop the canvas to an appropriate size. By 1967 the paintings had become wider and often the stirpes were arranged around bare canvas. The colours were varied in the early stripes but tended to be restricted in the works after 1968. Made in 1970 in the artist’s studio at South Shaftesbury, Vermont, Oakum was one of the last of this type of painting. In an interview in 1971 Noland mentioned that he liked ‘that edge between water and land’, something that plans the notion of landscape into his horizontal stripe paintings; the title Oakum refers to the compound of loose fibre made of old rope used in caulking the planking of boats.
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I feel like I have a stalker
firsttimeuser: John Claridge’s East End Child at window, 1962