Michelangelo: Creation of Adam // Killing Eve: God, I’m Tired
Medusa with the Head of Perseus, Luciano Garbati, 2008
I adore how she carries his head low, at her side, and not aloft in triumph. This is not a self-aggrandizing hero lauding her great deed. This is a woman who wanted to be left the fuck alone.
Also look at her body. The double hips. The asymetrical boobs. She’s thin, but she’s realistic as hell. That’s a real woman.
And the look in her eyes. Damn.
I originally saw photos of Garbati’s Medusa a long time ago, but I specifically remember this post from earlier this year. Medusa was one of those pieces that really buried into my head and heart. Sounds silly, but just looking at it gives me strength.
Today I was lucky enough to see it in person. She’s incredible. And, something that the original pictures don’t show— she’s HUGE!
I love this even better now that we can see the baffled look on Perseus’s face.
All Apologises- Nirvana
Art by Elly Smallwood
Check out @moishpain’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/moishpain/status/1121720569039335424?s=09
“In one timeline we kiss but the stars don’t come down. In another you set a world on fire for me but I perish in the flames. Another and we’re strangers on a busy street, brushing by close enough to send each other reeling off balance but not stopping. Somewhere there’s a final space where your hand on my face is the punchy climax to an epic saga, where the way our mouths meet takes the breath right out of people’s throats. One universe has us right, of all the millions stacked on millions. So it’s not this one. I can live with that. The world is full of wonders and a hundred years ago the moon was too much to dream of touching. Look how far we’ve come. Turn over your shoulder and just look. Maybe we’ll come across each other at the turning of the century, racing across the breaches between worlds. I’ll build my life on that maybe.”
…And nobody thought to post other “branchs” of this chain? Yes, it’s ‘branchS’, plural, because apparently we also have these:
Another branch, starting from the girl with the white background:
Continue from OP’s branch:
Same ‘level’ as the one above:
Continue! With a cat!
Honorary mentioned:
And finally, The Great Family Tree (some branch is not in the picture, pls click the link below for the full list:
Padmé Amidala | by Angelina Benedetti (via Topps)
The beauty of abandoned places
and i know it is totally crazy to dream i’d find romance
the anger of schilles, jacques-louis david (1819)
Witches Going to Their Sabbath by Luis Ricardo Falero // Take Me to Church by Hozier
Movie artwork by Failunfailunmefailun
Sandro Botticelli La Primavera (c. 1482) tempera on panel. Uffizi Gallery, Florence.
‘Women Of Greek Mythology’, an Inktober 2018 project by Neith.
See them all on her website.
Rapunzel Graphite