Kiss - Rossi Vappu, 2005
Finnish,b.1976
Lithograph, 25 x 23 cm
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Kiss - Rossi Vappu, 2005
Finnish,b.1976
Lithograph, 25 x 23 cm
Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe photographed by Norman Seeff, 1969.
“We wanted, it seemed, what we already had, a lover and a friend to create with, side by side. To be loyal, yet be free.”- Patti Smith
In her memoir Just Kids, Patti Smith details her intense relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe in which they struggle to become artists in New York City. They lived together at the Hotel Chelsea – home to numerous writers, musicians, actors and artists. Patti supported Robert by working in bookstores, he soon flourished as a photographer and encouraged her to pursue visual art. As a writer, Patti eventually turned her poems into songwriting. For the cover of her debut album, Horses (1975), Patti used a portrait Robert took. Once Robert came out as a gay man their intimate relationship ended but they remained friends until his death from HIV/AIDS in 1989.
Sandro Botticelli La Primavera (c. 1482) tempera on panel. Uffizi Gallery, Florence.
Tintoretto c. 1598-1602
Penitent Magdalene (details)
Boulevard in the Evening, Isaac Levitan, 1883.
Vengeance Is Sworn (Detail), c. 1851 — Francesco Hayez
Detail. Salvator Mundi. Attr. to Leonardo da Vinci. 1500
by Knud Andreassen Baade /detail/
Oblique Strategies (subtitled Over One Hundred Worthwhile Dilemmas) - created by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt and first published in 1975. Each card offers an aphorism intended to help artists (particularly musicians) break creative blocks by encouraging lateral thinking.
These cards evolved from our separate observations of the principles underlying what we are doing. Sometimes they were recognized in retrospect (intellect catching up with intuition), sometimes they were identified as they were happening, sometimes they were formulated. They can be used as a pack (a set of posibilities being continuously reviewed in the mind) or by drawing a single card from a shuffled pack when a dilemma occurs in a working situation. In this case the card is trusted even if it appropriateness is quite unclear. They are not final, as new ideas will present themselves, and others will become self-evident. - Brian Eno
Gennady Spirin - The Sea King’s Daughter
“The Star” lightart by Jun Hao Ong in Penang
John Atkinson Grimshaw, Midsummer Night (1876). Oil on canvas.
Ellen Terry “Choosing” (detail) 1864. George Frederic Watts
Peter Paul Rubens, The Fall of the Damned (Detail), 1620.
Alfred Agache, Enigma (1888)
Nude Model Giovanni Boldini - circa 1904