Painter Bill Sharp

 

Willie

2008

ink and watercolor

http://billsharp.wordpress.com/category/animal-painting/ 

Australian painter Peter Kownacki 1957-

Still Life

http://www.etsy.com/listing/85700425/flowers-abstract-still-life-original

http://www.etsy.com/people/PeterKownacki?ref=ls_profile

Danish painter Carl Vilhelm Meyer 1870-1938

The Broken Doll

Happy Birthday George Harrison

1943-2001

He would have been 69 today.

I've been marking George's 

birthday since 1972.

http://www.georgeharrison.com/

German-American photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt 1898-1995

English children watching a puppet show

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Eisenstaedt

Art Nouveau artist Alphonse Mucha, Paris 1860-1939

Literal founder of the Art Nouveau period in French culture (Mucha Style). His posters for Sarah Bernhardt in Paris in 1895 had worldwide influence.

Studied at the famous Académe Julian, Paris.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphonse_Mucha

http://www.muchafoundation.org/MHome.aspx

Dutch painter Charles Leickert 1816-1907

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Leickert

Venezuelen painter Arturo Michelena 1863 – 1898

La joven madre (The Young Mother)

Studied at the famous Académie Julian in Paris.

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arturo_Michelena

On hiatus — be back soon

Dutch Painter Jan Lievens 1607-1674

Still Life with Books

1628

Rembrandt House Museum, Amsterdam

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/31/arts/design/31liev.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Lievens

Communication breakdown

Man was condemned to wander the Earth 
like hordes of leper telephones.  

Patti Smith, Babel, 1974

Salvadore Dali

Inside a vintage timepiece

Mechanical engineering is a lost science.

No one knows how to do this anymore.

Someday it will be forgotten.

Belgian landscapeist Frederik Marinus Kruseman 1817-1882

Figures in a Winter Landscape

http://www.burlington.co.uk/artist-biography/fredrik-marinus-kruseman.html

Why carry your purse to a soirée when you can just wear it?

French painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard 1732-1806

 

Young Girl Reading

1776

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C.

Fragonard was a prolific Rococo artist.

http://www.nga.gov/

http://tinyurl.com/5pfoxd

Chinese painter Chen Yong

Snow Horses

http://www.orientaloutpost.com/proddetail.php?prod=2sh33-6

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheng_Yong

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
Carl Sandburg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sandburg 

Contemporary artist Aaron Shikler 1922-

Little Reader

Shikler chose American statesmen and celebrities as his subjects,
such as the Kennedys, the Reagans and the Clintons.

http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/art/common/generic/Artist_Biography_Shikler_Aaron.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Shikler

Van Gogh's symbolic fascination with shoes

Painted between 1880-1888

http://www.amazon.com/Shoes-Van-Gogh-Spiritual-Artistic/dp/0824521420

http://www.vangoghgallery.com/