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Nirvana and Marc Jacobs' logo battle just got messier The smiley face-off continues.

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When the troubled artist Francisco Goya died in 1828, a series of 14 unsettling murals were found painted directly onto the walls of his home in Spain — including one so violent that it's still referred to as perhaps the most disturbing painting ever created. Now known as "Saturn Devouring His Son," the painting features a massive, grotesque humanoid creature with crazed eyes eating a n**e human figure. Eventually, Baron Frédéric Émile d'Erlanger purchased the house in 1873 and had the murals removed from the walls and transferred to canvas. When "Saturn Devouring His Son" finally appeared before audiences, it was met with shock and revulsion, with one critic calling it "disgusting without much art." Another critic declared Goya to be a "hyena," calling his imagination "a hideous inferno ... a disgusting region ... shapeless as chaos." But despite the intense visceral reactions it inspired, "Saturn Devouring His Son" has endured as a masterpiece that reveals haunting insights about the dark interior life of its creator: https://bit.ly/4aPDYrP

See what I vita C?

Well lookie, lookie here…..

US government creates comic books to fight election disinformation The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) might not be the first agency that comes to mind when you think comic books. Yet, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), a branch of DHS, has been venturing into the world of graphic novels with its “Resilience Series,” aimed at com...

This is an interesting read…

Freelance With A Family: Advice On Making It Work From One Of America’s Top Rock Critics Jessica Hopper on how she kept her creative dream job–and her family–thriving.

Luna luna part deuce….

When Keith Haring, Salvador Dalí and Jean-Michel Basquiat Created an Art Amusement Park — Smithsonian Magazine A resurrected version of Luna Luna, a fairground started by artist André Heller in 1987, opens in Los Angeles later this month

Happy dia de los Mu***os.

Teufelsalphabet (devil’s alphabet), Paris, 1836. Artist unknown.

Remembering Colombian artist Fernando Botero A prolific artist, Colombian-born painter and sculptor Fernando Botero has died at the age of 91. NBC’s Guad Venegas takes a look back at his life and work.»...

Goat fo sho!

Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) was a German mathematician, illustrator, painter and art theorist born in the city of Nuremberg, introducer of the art of graphic representation in three dimensions, that is, in perspective, and considered the main figure of German art of the Renaissance.
Dürer's work on geometry is called the Four Books on Measurement (Instructions for Measuring with Compasses and Ruler). The first book focuses on linear geometry, including helices, conchoids, and epicycloids. The second book moves on to two-dimensional geometry, that is, the construction of regular polygons. The third book applies these principles of geometry to architecture, engineering, and typography. The fourth book completes the progression of the first and second, moving on to three-dimensional shapes and the construction of polyhedra. Here, Dürer discusses the five Platonic solids, as well as seven semi-regular Archimedean solids, as well as several of his own invention.
Finally, Dürer discusses the Delian problem and moves on to 'construzione legitima', a method of representing a cube in two dimensions by means of linear perspective. He is considered the first to describe a visualization technique used in modern computers, ray tracing. It was in Bologna, Italy, that Dürer learned (possibly from Luca Pacioli or Bramante) the principles of linear perspective.

He was also familiar with the 'abbreviated construction' described by Alberti and the geometric construction of shadows, a technique of Leonardo da Vinci. He was notably the first Northern European to address issues of visual representation in a scientific way and with an understanding of Euclidean principles. In addition to these geometric constructions, Dürer discusses in his latest book a variety of mechanisms for drawing in perspective from models and provides woodcut illustrations of these methods that are often reproduced in discussions of perspective.

"Geometry is the right foundation of all painting." ~ Albrecht Dürer

Photography Dealer Pleads Guilty to Swindling ‘Scheme’ Involving $1.6 M. in Art Wendy Halstead Beard allegedly made up medical excuses when her clients asked for more information.

Comrades for art’s sake!

Picasso, Basquiat, Warhol and Dalí

Maurice Sendak on Art and Art-Making Insight from the renowned author and artist on how to create and inspire.

Doing it centuries ago….

People baffled after spotting 'Nike shoes' in 400-year-old painting People are convinced time-travelling is real after allegedly spotting 'Nike shoes' in the 17th century portrait

Detail from Albrecht Dürer’s Opera Alberti Dureri, printed by Christian Wechel, 1532.

Visit the Online Archive to see full spreads from Dürer’s treatise on measurement, symmetry, perspective, and letter construction: https://oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=lfa_antiquarianbound_0041

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These Classical Art Memes Have Us Rethinking the Intentions of These Artists – Page 4 These Classical Art Memes Have Us Rethinking the Intentions of These Artists September 12, 2010 by Sarah Barber It’s a Mystery… For as long as we remember, it seems like men and women have always been considered different from one another. Whether it is the way they have, the way they look, or e...

Giving it a rare shot…

You can take this San Francisco photo only twice a year Photographers gather at a San Francisco intersection twice a year to catch this rare...

Very inspiring read.

In-N-Out owner Lynsi Snyder is expanding the burger chain to two more states and increasing her wealth along the way. Here's how one of the youngest billionaires in the US lives her life. Snyder inherited the In-N-Out empire at a young age after a series of family tragedies, including the death of her father. Take a look at her life.

Pretty clever I'd say....

Rare 19th-Century Silhouette Album’s Secrets Unlocked Traveling portrait artist William Bache’s album depicts famous figures like Thomas Jefferson as well as people whose identity was previously unknown.

I die!

Banksy Creates Bob Ross Narrated Process Video of New Work Depicting Oscar Wilde Escaping Prison — Colossal What begins as a soft-spoken clip of America’s most iconic TV painting instructor, Bob Ross from his Joy of Painting show, suddenly shifts into a frenetic and extremely rare behind-the-scenes video of Banksy (previously) creating his latest work in Reading, Berkshire. Titled “Create Escape,” t...

Meet Julia Tuttle: The ‘Mother Of Miami’ & Only Woman To Have Founded A Major U.S. City Julia DeForrest Tuttle, the "Mother of Miami," is the only woman to have ever founded a major U.S. city. March is Women's History Month and there's no

Agh if she only had a small foot….

Kat Von D is auctioning more than 130 pairs of her shoes because her feet grew after her pregnancy and she doesn't want to ship them to her new house Kat Von D says she's selling her designer shoes — most in women's sizes seven through 10 — with prices starting around $30.

Tony Hawk selling replicas of Kurt Cobain's hand-painted Iron Maiden skateboard for charity Hawk authenticated the original "unicorn" deck after purchasing it at auction last year.

Slick Rick’s throne,… that’s rad!

A Sneak Peek Into New York’s New Hip Hop Museum In advance of the museum’s opening, a series of rotating exhibitions in the Bronx Terminal Market offers a preview of what’s to come.

Authorities Recover 100-Year-Old Dalí Drawings Stolen in Barcelona Art Heist Five works attributed to Joan Miró were also recovered in Barcelona.

The Countries Paying Youths to Simply Enjoy Art Germany, France, Italy, and Spain offer cash stipends to their younger citizens in an effort to revitalize arts and culture after the COVID-19 pandemic.

Strikes again in the name of love….

Banksy’s Valentine’s Day Mural Is Dark The work, depicting a scene of domestic violence, was partially removed hours after it appeared in the English town of Margate.