The Magical Wooden Head - E.Mervyn Taylor (1952) wood block engraving (christchurchartgallery.org.nz)
Grace Jones - Jean Paul Goude, photo collage. (i.pinimg.com)
'Exploding Louise Brooks' collage by Lola Dupre (lemmy.ml)
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“Me”, by /u/fluffyuglycookie, Pencil on Paper, 2022 (sh.itjust.works)
Untitled - Khalid Saeed Butt, gouache on wasli paper (cliftonartgallery.com)
Sea Echoes by Frederick Leighton (1861) (i.postimg.cc)
Pietro Annigoni - Portrait of Sonja Bata (1963) (i.pinimg.com)
Sonja Ingrid Bata was a Swiss Canadian businesswoman, philanthropist, collector and museum founder, who initially trained as an architect....
In the yard - Slavka Deneva (1976) (nationalgallery.bg)
Early Design Alien Planet - Ron Cobb (1977) movie concept art (roncobb.net)
Hydra - Zina Saunders (www.zinasaunders.com)
From the The Secret life of Hydrants by illustrator Zina Saunders: "The water beast, Hydra, guarding the entrance to the Underworld in lower Manhattan awaits Hercules: “Bring it on, big guy!”...
Man on bench - Duane Hanson (1977) (upload.wikimedia.org)
Part of the Hyperrealistic Art Movement beginning in the 1970s in America and Britain, this sculpture is on display at the Saatchi Gallery of London....
Theodore Roszak - Study for Airport (1934) (i.ebayimg.com)
Glass Made Bull Shaped Decanter (i.postimg.cc)
Years of Fear - Matta (1941) (www.guggenheim.org)
Schooled as an architect in his native Santiago, Chile, Matta went to Paris in 1933 to work for the famed modernist architect Le Corbusier. By the mid-1930s, Matta had become friendly with members of the Surrealist circle, and in 1937, influenced by both Surrealist techniques, including automatism, and his architectural...
Advance of History - Mark Tobey (1964) (www.guggenheim.org)
Mark Tobey’s animated matrices of brushed line, like the mature works of Jackson Pollock, are allover compositions. That is, unlike conventional representational paintings, they have no discernable center of focus, no single emphasized portion. Even Cubist works maintain vestiges of pictorial illusionism through an increased...
Ball of Galaxy in my Hands (i.postimg.cc)
'Trump' collage by Lola Dupre (lemmy.ml)
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Smilodon - Charles Knight (1909) oil on canvas, American Museum of Natural History (upload.wikimedia.org)
“Charles Robert Knight (October 21, 1874 – April 15, 1953) was an American wildlife and paleoartist best known for his detailed paintings of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals. His works have been reproduced in many books and are currently on display at several major museums in the United States. One of his most famous...
The Port of Saint-Tropez - Paul Signac (1905) oil on canvas (upload.wikimedia.org)
Familjen - Tove Jansson (1942) (3.bp.blogspot.com)
The Rue Montorgueil in Paris. Celebration of June 30, 1878 by Claude Monet (1878) (upload.wikimedia.org)
The Rue Montorgueil, like its twin painting The Rue Saint-Denis (Rouen, musée des Beaux-arts), is often thought to depict a 14 July celebration. In fact it was painted on 30 June 1878 for a festival declared that year by the government celebrating “peace and work”. This was one of the events organised for the third...