Somebody that I used to know by Paul Barretta

Art by 奈良 美智 Yoshitomo Nara　(1959～）

『小さな思想家』 Little Thinker　2000

A scene from Raúl Ruiz’s City of Pirates, 1983 

Yellow By Michelle De Rose

Les Pêcheuses de Pignons, Saint-Jean-de-Mont, Auguste Louis Lepère, 1903, Cleveland Museum of Art: Prints

Size: Sheet: 29.4 x 21.1 cm (11 9/16 x 8 5/16 in.); Platemark: 22.1 x 15.1 cm (8 11/16 x 5 15/16 in.) Medium: color woodcut

https://clevelandart.org/art/2007.257

Posting this for the people who think that Tolkien's world-building was something complete and entire and finished before he started to write.

You always learn and discover your story and your world as you write. Sometimes you are just the first reader.

Inge Schön by Trude Fleischmann

Trude Fleischmann (1895-1990) ~ Portrait of artist Inge Schön, ca. 1929, silver gelatin print, signed. | src Sworders view more on wordPress

Pierre Brissaud ( 1885 – 1964) was a French Art Deco illustrator, painter, and engraver. Not sure what this painting is officially about, but I am thinking about Sir Isaac Newton discovering a new law of motion: a scientist moves faster if girls pelt him with apples. 

Young Woman Sewing*  , Paris   -    Paul Cesar Helleu , 1892.

French, 1859-1927

etching and drypoint on wove paper , 7 ½ x 5 5/8 inches (190 x 145 mm).

* This is a portrait of the artist’s wife, Madame Helleu.

Everyone deserves a chance to fly by Me 

what drugs were they on when they made this

Cab Calloway rotascoped!

Whoever thought of this was drinking absinthe

Thanks, Now I have nightmares

this was long before cartoons were ever thought of as ‘for kids’, the target audience of this one was roughly 20-40 betty boop cartoons featuring cab calloway singing, yes, but slang has changed so much you dont realize he was singing about opium, sugar daddies, death, weed, sex, booze, and gambling back when gambling was nearly as tabboo as sex and drugs. ‘minnie the moocher’ where cab calloway is a dancing walrus is specifically about someone who does literally everything on that list but die

most of the animation studios had their ‘thing’ to make their animation stand out, disney had fluid motion linked with quality music, warner brothers had top notch dialogue with carefully crafted facial expressions, MGM had comedic timing down to the individual frame that no live action comedian could dream of achieving, terrytoons had the budget of a ham sandwitch and a fistfull of nickels fleischer studios however had authentic jazz and heavy toned subject matter, often crossing the line of what we think of as ‘cartoon violence’ into realistic

idk why this is making me so emotional???

I love this. I’ve always had a love for cartoons

Cab Calloway, he was a legend performer and entertainer, although he’s listed as a jazz singer he did much more with his voice, his singing style and delivery was very unique. Cab (with his band) was the first black artist to sell over a million copies of a single record and he paved the way for many artists to come. Happy Black History Month.

sorry to make this long post longer, but I feel like it needed some actual photos of Cab Calloway, who is, in fact, the greatest

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Here’s a flock of choice vintage goose imagery.

A fine, dizzy, muddle-headed joy.

Dior Spring 2024 Haute Couture

A forgotten masterpiece by Alex Toth: “The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of,” written by Marv Wolfman from House of Secrets #83, published by DC Comics, December 1969.

Armelle Gouyet

You and Me and the Devil Makes Three Ethan Coverstone

Carina Brandes #newartnewstars

Grace Gillespie’s Vibrant Linocut Prints of Flowers and Foliage Tap Into Her Artistic Roots

Behind the scenes of The Shining (1980)

Lisa and Louise Burns as the twin girls and Danny Lloyd as Danny Trance, joking around at Elstree Studios during the filming of The Shining.

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner :: ‘Fränzi’. Porträt des Kindermodells Lina Franziska „Fränzi“ Fehrmann, 1910

Lina Franziska “Fränzi” Fehrmann, married. Fleischer (1900-1950), was the most important child model and a muse of “Die Brücke” artists Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Erich Heckel and Max Pechstein. She was introduced to the group of artists in 1909 at the age of eight and was depicted in numerous of the painters’ works until 1911. Unlike professional models, Fehrmann was often portrayed in motion and in the work of the “Brücke” artists she is associated with a new, faster style of painting in oil. For a long time only known by the first name Fränzi, which can be found in picture titles, Fehrmann’s identity was revealed in 1995 through entries in Kirchner’s sketchbook. Since then, Kirchner’s relationship with the child has been increasingly questioned critically and speculatively.

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880–1938) ~ Seated Girl (Fränzi Fehrmann), 1910 (altered 1920). Oil on canvas | src MIA (Minneapolis Institute of Arts)