By Juan Brufal

[id: painting of an orange tree growing diagonally in front of vibrant blue and yellow houses beside the sea.]/end id.

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I’m losing my mind over these paintings by Alison Friend

John Brosio, State of the Union, 2011, oil on canvas

there’s a sequel !!

John Brosio, State of the Union 2, 2014, oil on canvas

Oh sick!!! Big fuckin crows!!!

OH SHIT EVEN BETTER

Pools - Ann Goldberg , 2017.

Canadian , b. 1970s

Oil on canvas , 36 x 48 in.

WHAT THE FUCK.

eclipse, 2013, oil/cardboard, 15 x 20 cm

new piece about queer conventions of attractiveness, body hair, and my own transition <3

this is exquisite, OP

"Tarnish Flare"

It's good to revisit old flames sometimes!

Arte alucinante

“the sun” by edvard munch (1909)

[Image description: a painting of the sun above the water. It is framed by rocks and a bit of green (perhaps grass) in the foreground. The center of the sun is white-yellow and its rays of are red, orange, yellow, and blue. End ID]

Art by Paul Rabaud

where is that renaissance painting with those two fellers and a giant fucking random skull on the floor that looks like it was accidentally stretched out in photoshop

THANK YOU

somebody please explain

Someone once told me it’s like that because it was designed to be hung in a stairwell so the skull pops out as you walk past.

…I guess it works but you have to be at a pretty sharp angle

There was a whole trend at one point where artists would include something in their paintings (usually a skull, for whatever reason) that’s super distorted in just the right way so that it looks normal if you hold the painting up to a convex/concave mirror. I have absolutely no idea why. But I think that’s what’s going on here.

In case anyone’s curious, here’s what it looks like when you walk past it irl:

It does have a 3D effect to it! It’s pretty neat, guess it would be even more impressive to people from the 14th century.

honestly, people just looking at the skull are missing the real deal here

You can read any implied text you see in this thing, even the book, that’s how detailed it is. Look at the painting on those letters!

jesus christ you’re just showing off now, Hans!

HANS OH MY GOD

anyway, the skull apparently had some meaning about the transcendence of death, you can only see it clearly when you can’t see the world clearly and vice versa, but man, I’m all about the detail in this guy’s shit

No, I think you’re missing the real deal here

as an art historian, i think this is the best post on tumblr