Italian painter Amedeo Clemente Modigliani 1884-1920

"He died in Paris of tubercular meningitis exacerbated by poverty, 
 overwork and addiction to alcohol and narcotics."

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

He really was a tortured artist.

Frank Zappa 1940-1993

Sheik your kitty

Rock sculpture

Death by drowning

New York photographer Tom Lascell

Bocce Ball Garden

Portrait of a beautiful woman

I came across this portrait and was mesmerized by the beauty of the subject and the technique of the artist. As a little girl I thought this is what sophisticated women looked like, but as an adult, one finds out it was just an illusion. The artist has captured a Barbie doll on canvas.

Friday Night Frights

"Darling, I didn't want to tell you, but I put basil in the ratatouille!"

German/Swiss painter Louise-Catherine Breslau 1856-1927

Self Portrait 1904

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

A rare "Duncan Bunny" from the "Animals" series

 Someone gave me a bunny! 

It's more than just a present.

 :0)

The Richat structure, Mauritania, Africa

This is a recent photo of a geologic formation in the Sahara Desert taken from the International Space Station 240 miles above the Earth.

Scientists say the origin of the circular structure is a mystery. It is 40 km in diameter.

Dutch astronaut Andre Kuipers took the picture using a Nikon D2Xs camera. (Space.com)

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

Rococo artist Jean-François de Troy 1679-1752

Moses Cast Into the Nile

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Fran%C3%A7ois_de_Troy

English artist Ralph Hedley 1848-1913

A Good Read

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

I love snuff

and all its accoutrement.

Up for auction: a bronze snuff bottle with watch and barometer mounts, circa 1890; 3 inches high; has an estimated value of $40,000 to $60,000. 

This is some high-end snuff stuff here:

http://www.thecityreview.com/f10scsnuff.html 

Polish-born German painter Simon Glücklich 1863–1943

The Reading Lesson

The Homework

http://tinyurl.com/88yvkc2

French painter Jean-Jacques-Raoul Jourdan 1880-1916

In the Garden

Jourdan might have died in World War I.

I cannot find a biography for him.

Attack of the Puppet People 1958

Directed, produced and written by Bert I. Gordon

for American International Pictures

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

Two cultures, two elongated skulls: coincidence?

Ancient Mayan skull

Ancient Egyptian skull

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

Finnish painter Albert Edelfelt 1854-1905

Portrait of a Parisienne Reading 

1880

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

French realist Gustave Courbet 1819-1877

La belle Irlandaise (Portrait of Jo) 1866

Portrait of Joanna Hiffernan

 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

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

We all wear masks

every minute of every day.

You are never truly yourself
until you are alone.

Contemporary Scottish artist Ken Bushe

Cloudscape

http://www.kenbushe.co.uk/index.html

French painter Jean Béraud 1849-1935

Outside the Vaudeville Theatre, Paris

Béraud was an Impressionist painter of Parisian life during the fabulous Belle Epoque period.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_B%C3%A9raud

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belle_%C3%89poque

German painter Rudolf Epp 1834-1910

 

 In The Room

http://tinyurl.com/7apwtj8