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The most terrifying painting of the Middle Ages "Dead Lovers"
The painting was painted in the 15th century. The name of the artist has not survived, in manner today it is attributed to an anonymous man nicknamed the Master of Ulm.
It strikes with its unusual approach to the nude body: what should be supposed to excite and delight the eye, here turned into a real horror.
Since the subjects are not young handsome men, but shriveled old men, and it seems that they are already being devoured by grave worms (despite the quite lively expression of their eyes).
For us, such a depiction of a woman and a man is usually associated with Adam and Eve - and traditionally such paintings serve to glorify human beauty. But not in the case of our Dead Lovers, which contrasts with the template in an even more shocking way.
The idea behind this medieval allegorical painting was to remind whoever looked at it: life is decay. We are all going to die, and soon enough.
The viewer, looking at this ugliness, was supposed to meditate on the fact that everything earthly is vanity, vanity of vanities. Including the body, youth, health.
The horror of the picture is increased by the fact that the eyes of the characters are still burning with reason, but their bodies are already being eaten by insects, snakes and worms.
The toothless woman's dried-up breasts hang down in the most pathetic way, and a huge toad - a symbol of nastiness and abomination - sits on her bosom.
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England's most mystical picture
Almost 39 years ago, in the mid-80's, in England there was a series of unexplained fires, associated with various factors and circumstances, accompanied by human casualties. As it turned out later, all tragic events were united by one thing - in all cases in the premises there was a reproduction of one of the paintings by Giovanni Bragolin, which remained untouched by fire.
The attention of the British to the mysterious fact attracted a fireman from Yorkshire named Peter Hall, in his interview reported that throughout the North of England fire brigades find on the sites of fires untouched by fire copies of paintings Bragolina. Unheard of panic gripped the country. Frightened to death ordinary people firmly decided: “offended and angry at the whole world kids take revenge on this soulless, cruel society. It was not for nothing that after each fire, among the embers they found a portrait of a crying baby unharmed and unharmed, with not even a trace of soot on it.
In November 1985, the editorial staff of The Sun decided to organize a mass demonstration burning of the images of the crying baby collected from the citizens, with the involvement of television. The action was held on a vacant lot outside the city, where a huge bonfire was set up, in which all the remaining copies were burned.
After the act of burning, the British froze in anticipation of something catastrophic. However, days, weeks, years passed, and there were no more mass fires. “Crying Boy”, having burned in the fire, stopped taking revenge on people. With the passage of time, the gruesome story began to be forgotten. The only things left are old newspaper folders, which remind us of it to this day.
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Erotic Surrealism
Joyce Lee has become one of the most prolific artists on social media. Portraits, different themes, from nudes to surreal fish, have garnered hundreds of thousands of likes on her page.
Lee now has such a strong fan base based on social media that she has become one of the most successfully marketed artists!
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Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945)
Well-known German artist. Kollwitz was active in politics and social activism, advocating women's rights and pacifism.
During World War I, her son died and this event had a profound impact on her life and work.
Her work was almost consumed by the theme of death, yet she continued to live a vibrant, full life.
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3D arts
Illustrator and designer Tang Zixi has fun in his spare time creating gorgeous 3D artworks of his favorite cartoon characters - Jerry from “Tom and Jerry” and Patrick from “SpongeBob SquarePants.”
At first he painted them wherever he saw an opportunity, but a little later Zixi started being invited by parents of toddlers to paint their children's rooms!
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A sculpture created in 2016 by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan.
An example of satirical party art, it is a fully functioning toilet bowl made of 18 carat solid gold!
In September 2019, the toilet bowl was put on display at Blenheim Palace in the UK, from where it was stolen. The suspects were apprehended, the $2.6 million dollar toilet bowl was never recovered.
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A work that makes you think
Actually, as well as all the artworks of Crisco Art - “the artist who paints light”.
It's not for nothing that he has been one of the most inspiring artists creating glow-in-the-dark paintings for several years in a row!
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Turkish calligrapher draws patterns with cutlery!
Yazi Yolkusu is a living proof that it is not the tools that make an artist, but his talent and skills.
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Helen Beard is a British artist. Byrd creates sensual works through bold experimentation with color. The exhibition will focus on her painting and bring together her best oil paintings.
Byrd's colorful paintings with intimate undertones have brought her fame in the UK and beyond. Her works are held in private collections around the world!
😱- Too explicit
🔥- Quite normal
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Modern nude paintings
Marina Borodulya is a modern Ukrainian artist from Kiev.
Now Marina Borodulya is quite popular artist and her works are in great demand!
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Incredible dolls
American artist Nicole West creates very unusual dolls. All dolls are filled with feelings, emotions and look as if alive.
Nicole kneads the skin color of the dolls in the clay itself. Inside is an aluminum frame. Nicole's dolls are emotional, sexy and feature lifelike eyes, this is her own development, kept secret!
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Inner Painting
Wan Li is a master of “inner painting” (内画, nèihuà), showing exceptional talent in his clips, creating intricate landscapes inside glass vases and bottles.
Traditional art forms are becoming more popular every day. And this is especially noticeable in the Asian part of the global art community!
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The contemporary artist from Australia is Werner Bronckhorst
Werner made it to the top because of his signature style that he came up with himself!
His thing is the combination of abstract sculptural backgrounds with miniature and super realistic
images.
Not only is the work visually gorgeous, you can imagine how much painstaking work it is overall!
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Exquisite decay
American artist Kathleen Ryan makes giant sculptures of rotting fruit out of gemstones.
To make rotting fruit, Ryan observes and is inspired by the actual rotting process. She finds mold to be very aesthetically pleasing. So the parts of her “fruit” that the mold hasn't affected, Kathleen Ryan makes out of cheap glass beads.
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The non-destructive vandal
Rich McCore is a photographer who has been called a “non-destructive vandal.” Using his camera and paper cut out figures, he creates the illusion of artificial perspective.
The Londoner's hobby, which at first was seen as a hobby, has already brought him viral popularity in a year. Now Rich travels the world, and the number of his followers in social networks is approaching half a million.
He has worked with some of the world's biggest brands, including Microsoft, Red Bull and PUMA!
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A genius at his job
Felix Alejandro Hernandez does absolutely incredible things.
Audi, Gucci, BMW, Mattel, Mattel, TopGear, Renault and a bunch of other first line brands have been queuing up for months to get his work in their projects!
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Yayoi Kusama - Flower Obsession, 2018
"One day, after looking at the pattern of red flowers on the tablecloth, I looked up and saw that the ceiling, windows and pillars seemed to be colored with the same red flower pattern. I saw the whole room, my whole body and the whole universe covered in red flowers, and in that moment my soul was destroyed.... It was not an illusion, but reality itself...."
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What's wrong with a painting by an Italian Renaissance artist?
The painting “Dead Christ” by Andrea Mantegna was supposedly painted in 1490. The painting remained in his studio until the author's death and was found after the artist's death. Currently, the work is in the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan.
The dead body of Christ is depicted unusually for the Renaissance. The body is depicted from the side of the Savior's feet. We can see the head, feet and hands with wounds. And all this from the side of feet. The pose is not quite ordinary and requires certain skills from the artist. It seems that Andrea Mantegna did not follow the rules of perspective.
Any artist will immediately notice that the feet of the legs are reduced in the painting and the head is enlarged. Christ's head is too large because it is farthest from the observer. His torso and arms are well defined. But... his legs seem too short compared to his torso, and his feet too small for his body as a whole.
Imagine this figure standing up straight. You'd see a rather large head on a small, short torso with legs that are only about a quarter of his height in length, all resting on feet that are too small to support the body.
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“Anniversary”
Walid Ebeid
The women on the canvases of Cairo artist Walid Ebeid are beautiful, but far from happy. The circumstances of their lives are ambiguous, and the prospects look extremely sad.
Most likely, the heroine of this picture was given in marriage as a very young girl to a respectable man of age. This is the custom in Muslim countries. Now the woman is about 40 years old. Her spouse is an old man for her, but she cannot leave him in their culture. She has to put up with it.
The wife's look of doom and helplessness shows that there is no harmony, no love and care. And there will be no more. Sorrowful hopelessness is evident in the appearance of the former beauty.
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Atmospheric Murals
Young Australian artist Jamie Torpey is gaining popularity all over the world.
She creates original atmospheric murals, thanks to which she is invited to paint in different cities.
From time to time, Jamie posts smaller but equally gorgeous works on her social networks!
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“Paolo and Francesca”
Gaetano Previati, 1887
The tragic love story of Paolo and Francesca, two fictional characters from Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy.
The father forcibly and fraudulently married the girl to Lanciotto Malatesta in order to settle the discord between the families. But Francesca instead fell in love with his handsome younger brother Paolo.
Lanciotto discovered the lovers when they exchanged their first kiss and killed them with one swing of his sword.
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The art of drawing with hot sugar
Tan Ren is an artist practicing the ancient Chinese art form of Tanghua or 糖画.
Essentially, it is the creation of intricate edible works of art from hot sugar.
The art requires high speed and incredible precision of movement, as the sugar solidifies almost instantly!
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Scans from rare Taschen retrospective on the work of Issey Miyake, 1995.
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