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Original photo shoot by photographer Mehran Jojan
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“Moulage Studio”
Franz Sedlacek, 1932.
Sedlacek shows us a scene in which a well-dressed man of sinister appearance comes into the moulage studio with his porter and a suitcase in hand. A woman draws a half-dressed mannequin in a back room. Busts and fully clothed mannequins fill shelves and cabinets. “The Doctor” who runs the studio has removed the top half of the skull from the mannequin and is showing off the goods to a newly arrived customer, but what does the customer want from him? ⠀
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Opinion of our subscriber about this picture:
In my opinion, this painting delves into the inner selves of humans, highlighting that it doesn't matter how luxurious, perfect, educated, or aware you appear to be, in the end, you harbor foolish desires and impulses that you secretly indulge in, without telling anyone. While you're not the only one drawn towards emptiness and vanity, we are all the same in this regard. Yet, we keep this universal and naked secret hidden from each other. We are all monsters.
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“Love”
Igor Pestov, 2013.
The St. Petersburg artist denounces indifference to violence in modern society with his paintings, inspired by Charles Bukowski's books and the work of the rock band ZZ Top. Many viewers were shocked by his painting “Love” depicting a meat grinder.
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“What the head of the guillotined man sees in the first three moments after the execution”
Antoine Joseph Wirz, 1855.
People for several centuries have been haunted by the same question: how long does the process of execution last for a criminal whose head is taken away? To what limits in time stretches the dying process of the head separated from the torso, is there any thoughts, regrets about what he has done, remorse, unwillingness to leave life? Can the soul, separated by the executioner's axe, be reunited again after physical death?
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“The Wave”
Carlos Schwabe, 1907.
Apparently, this painting is the fruit of creative proscopia: in it, the artist predicts the approach of war, which claimed millions of human lives. It also echoes Edvard Munch's The Scream.
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“The Battle for Woman”
Franz von Stuck, 1905.
Although von Stuck's paintings do not contain any direct references to the events of the time, their mood clearly suggests the spiritual state of society. If you look closely, the faces of the characters in von Stuck's paintings always show signs of madness and insanity - this is another reference to the bloody events of that time. The whole world went mad.
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“Untitled (Three Nudes)”
Mark Rothko, 1934.
Painting of the famous American artist, a leading representative of abstract expressionism, one of the creators of color field painting.
Not everyone is given to appreciate his work on its merits and to discover in his paintings the secret meaning. However, their value reaches prohibitive heights.
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"Inferno"
Franz von Stuck, 1908.
The title of Franz von Stuck's painting Inferno refers to Dante Alighieri's medieval epic describing hell. In the artwork, Stuck used traditional symbols of hell such as the serpent, the demon and the flaming pit, but through the dissonance in colors and stylized poses, the work takes on a modern character
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"The Beating of the Babies"
Léon Conyers, 19th century
When King Herod learned of the birth of the Messiah, he became angry and frightened for his future. At first, he wanted to slyly find out the exact location of the God-baby in order to get rid of what was thought to be a rival for the royal throne. Having failed in his search, the hard-hearted ruler decided to commit a terrible crime
According to the Gospel of Matthew, the fear of losing the throne pushed the Jewish king to kill in cold blood all the boys of Bethlehem, whose age at least roughly coincided with the age of the newly born Jesus Christ.The canvas depicts the moment of the massacre of the innocents. Crowds of women with infants in their arms are rushing everywhere. The armed soldiers who pursue them faithfully carry out the cruel order, taking away the crying babies and massacring them on the spot
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“Woman and Death”
Edvard Munch, before 1894.
The etching “Woman and Death” belongs to the symbolist period of the artist's work. The skeleton, representing Death, has drawn the young woman into a dance, and the pair are engulfed in a passionate kiss. Death does not care about a person's age, rank, or gender when he comes to invite them to dance with him.
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“Model at the Wicker Chair”
Edvard Munch, 1919-1921.
Edvard Munch is best known for his extremely personal direction of Symbolism, which helped lay the foundations and had a lasting influence on the later Expressionist school of art. His artistic legacy includes many paintings of fully nude models. The work presented today is one of this series.
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"Dust Eaters"
Odd Nerdrum, 2005
This picture is about how many people today consume television, social media, celebrity gossip, expecting these things to grant their wishes, But it's like if they're eating dust, hoping to feel full.
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“Always with me”
Paco Lafarga, 2005.
The artist explains his intention:
“This is one of my first paintings. I started painting late, but with great enthusiasm. It is a painting of my grandmother - we loved each other very much, we had a good relationship and we cared for each other. I was there in her last moments. After she died, I came across the picture we took then, although it was hard to look at - it's my hands in her hands. It was painful to draw it, but I was inspired by the photo and decided to give it a try.”
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“The Ancestor”
Leonora Carrington, 1968.
It is said that there was something mystical, even diabolical - akin to alchemy or witchcraft - in the process of her painting.
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Amazing Photos Reveal the Work of Britain’s First Tattoo Artist in Victorian Times
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“The Power (Force) of Death”
William Holbrook Byrd, 1889-1890.
Depictions of Death calmly entering and taking life are common, but here Death assumes the same dynamic pose as a tiger with an outstretched eagle. Death's foot rises on the elephant, indicating her complete victory over the giant beast. In the background we see other large predators killed; for Death always defeats even the mightiest.
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“Shostakovich's First Symphony”
Pavel Nikolayevich Filonov, 1935.
The painting was painted under the impression of what he heard on the radio. P. Filonov was mesmerized by the musical form of Shostakovich's symphony. The union of fine art and music is an area of exceptional expressiveness of the emerging new image of the epoch of that time. The artist managed to visualize the melody that touched his feelings and mind.
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"Art Critic"
Raoul Hausmann, 1919-1920.
With his painting The Art Critic, Hausmann mocks the labor of journalists, whose opinions can be bribed with the ease of spring fluff. It turns out that people's fates can be ruined by banknotes embedded in logically linked letters?
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"Professor Poirier with a dismembered corpse"
Georges Chiquotot, 1886.
Not much is known about Chiquotot's life: he graduated from the National School of Fine Arts in Paris, but then for some reason decided to study medicine and entered the Higher Medical School and in 1908 headed the Department of Radiology at Broca Hospital. Shikoto can be called one of the first French radiologists.
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"Awakening after opium"
Albert Matignon, 1911.
In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, narcotic drugs were perceived both in the West and in Russia as merely ordinary medicines. The destructive consequences associated with them remained at that time still thoroughly unexplored and unrecognized. And such pictures were copied in the form of postcards and widely distributed in different countries.
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"The Death of Paganini"
Edward Okun, 1898.
In Okun's painting we see the figure of the devil, who, apparently believing that the moment of reckoning has arrived, plays the violin by the dead virtuoso's body. Okun gave his painting a second title, "Paganini's Dream," perhaps referring to the story of Giuseppe Tartini, the Italian composer who claimed to have written his "Devil's Sonata" after dreaming of Satan playing the violin.
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