Sumatran Tiger Skull - Polished bronze sculpture by Sooka
Unknown, Coronation Stone of Motecuhzoma II (Stone of the Five Suns), 1503
Aztec (Mexica) Tenochtitlan, Mexico
This stone, commemorating the beginning of the reign of Emperor Motecuhzoma II, was originally located within the ritual center of Tenochtitlan, the capital of the extensive empire conquered by the Aztecs between 1428 and 1519. The ruins of the city lie beneath downtown Mexico City. Known as the Stone of the Five Suns, this monument draws connections between Aztec history and the cosmic scheme. The quadrangular block is carved with the hieroglyphic signs of five successive cosmic eras, called “suns” in the language of the Aztecs. These eras were mythic cycles of creation and destruction that began in the time of genesis and continued with the birth of humankind and the period of Aztec rule. From “4 Jaguar-sun” in the lower-right corner, the eras proceed counterclockwise through “4 Wind-sun,” “4 Rain-sun,” and “4 Water-sun.” The X carved in the center represents “4 Movement-sun,” the sign of the present era for the Aztecs. The year “11 Reed” in the square cartouche refers to 1503, the year of Motecuhzoma’s coronation, while the day listed above it—“1 Crocodile”—corresponds to July 15, when the ceremony probably occurred. On the underside, the hieroglyphic date “1 Rabbit” denotes the beginning of things in the distant mythological past. The sculpture thus legitimizes Motecuhzoma’s rule as part of the cycle of birth, death, and renewal and presents him as heir to the world in the present era of creation.
met museum
Kaiserin Margaretha Theresa (detail)
by follower of Diego Velázquez (Sevillan, 1599 – 1660) oil on canvas, c. 1666
Bukowskis
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Jack Dale Mengenen (1922-2013) — Wandjinas at Iondra [ochre and pigments on linen, 2008]
Narcissus taking a selfie is the ACTUAL best.
These are REALLY cool
These are art in themselves, in a some of them point out what lockdown was like for us, they’re expressed themselves in a really cool way. But I think these are going to be talked about in the future.
Joseph Stella (American, 1877-1946), Bethlehem, c.1918. Pastel on paper_12 × 16 ½ in. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
I cried the first time I read this at the MoMA.
[ID: an untitled 1990 art piece by david wojnarowicz. it features two columns of black text on a white background. in the middle of the two columns of text is a grainy, black and white cut-out of a photo of the artist as a young boy from the waist up. he has a buzzcut and wears a patterned shirt. the lines of text in the columns are shaped to surround the outline of the boy.
the text on this art piece reads, “One day this kid will get larger. One day this kid will come to know something that causes a sensation equivalent to the separation of the earth from its axis. One day this kid will reach a point where he senses a division that isn’t mathematical. One day this kid will feel something stir in his heart and throat and mouth. One day this kid will find something in his mind and body and soul that makes him hungry.
One day this kid will do something that causes men who wear the uniforms of priests and rabbis, men who inhabit certain stone buildings, to call for his death. One day politicians will enact legislation against this kid. One day families will give false information to their children and each child will pass that information down generationally to their families and that information will be designed to make existence intolerable for this kid.
One day this kid will begin to experience all this activity in his environment and that activity and information will compell [sic] him to commit suicide or submit to danger in hopes of being murdered or submit to silence and invisibility. Or one day this kid will talk. When he begins to talk, men who develop a fear of this kid will attempt to silence him with strangling, fists, prison, suffocation, rape, intimidation, drugging, ropes, guns, laws, menace, roving gangs, bottles, knives, religion, decapitation, and immolation by fire.
Doctors will pronounce this kid curable as if his brain were a virus. This kid will lose his constitutional rights against the government’s invasion of his privacy. This kid will be faced with electro-shock, drugs, and conditioning therapies in laboratories tended by psychologists and research scientists. He will be subject to loss of home, civil rights, jobs, and all conceivable freedoms. All this will begin to happen in one or two years when he discovers he desires to place his naked body on the naked body of another boy.” /end ID]
From CNN: A Jewish family fleeing the Nazis sold a Picasso in 1938. Their heirs want it back
A Jewish family fleeing the Nazis sold a Picasso in 1938. Their heirs want it back
Cowboys vs. Modernism in Glen Baxter’s cartoons.
'Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stitch' ... A Knitted Glass Sculpture From Carol Milne: 👉 https://buff.ly/3rYmkwl
P.S. folks in the NYC/NJ area can take a six-day intensive workshop with Carol this spring at Salem Community College - I'm considering it myself! Details: 👉 https://e.givesmart.com/events/ucQ
Elisa Johns (American, 1977), Arizona Coral Snake, 2006. Oil on canvas over wooden panel, 42 x 42 in.
Bottle, Fish, late 19th century, Brooklyn Museum: Decorative Arts
Colorless blown molded glass bottle (a) (bitters) with stopper (b) molded into shape of fish (perhaps a carp or catfish). Fish’s head is at bottom, scaled body and tail rise in gentle S-shaped arch to form neck; flared rim around mouth of bottle. Stopper in shape of tail fits into mouth. Pontil mark. CONDITION: Good; few tiny chips around mouth of bottle and end of stopper; dirt in crevices of tail. Size: 15 ¼ x 4 1/8 x 5 ¾ in. (38.7 x 10.5 x 14.6 cm) Medium: Glass
Bohatyrka by sculptor Vasily Korchevoy
Here's some more amazing plus size sculptures by Vasily Korchevoy:
"Standing in Marble"
"Luxurious"
"Lush"
"Prosperity"
See more here: (https://www.saatchiart.com/v.korchevoy)
Also check out artist Adam Shultz...
"Untamed"
"Sisters"
"Aphrodite"
See more here: (https://artcloud.com/artist/adam-schultz)