andantegrazioso:

Song Of The Morning Light | Dmitry Dubikovskiy

thunderstruck9:

Claudio Massini (Italian, b. 1955), Prima del ballo [Before the Dance], 2005. Mixed media (mineral, plant, organic, and chemical pigments) on linen canvas, double sealed and triple washed

via jareckiworld

sonofaodh:

Three Women Hanging Sumi Ink on Paper - By. Hayv Kahraman

Iraqi artist Hayv Kahraman was ten years old when her family fled Baghdad for Sweden during the Gulf War, eventually settling in Arizona in 2006, when the US and Iraq were at war. Memories from her home country—and the artist’s increasing distance and dislocation from them—form an autobiographical core in Kahraman’s work, which combines aesthetics from the Middle East and the West to consider the effects of gender and geopolitics on both psyche and body.

The darkness of many of Kahraman’s themes—trauma, war, genital mutilation, and “honor” killings—is counteracted by the delicacy of her style, which borrows from the traditions of Persian miniatures, Japanese illustration, and Renaissance painting. The identical pale, dark-haired figures populating Kahraman’s canvases are based on her own image: In 2012, the artist commissioned a 3D scan of her body to generate an accurate model that she could “rotate, slice, and manipulate” at will. Kahraman captures the sense of a body separated from itself: the fragmentation experienced by refugees, exiles, and émigrés. In How Iraqi Are You (2015) women violently detach each other’s limbs; Iraqi Kit (2016) presents the same body parts neatly assembled in a modular set to “build your own Iraqi.”

sideeffectsinclude:

Elm, Sylivia Plath

dappledwithshadow:

Georgia O’Keeffe, Storm Cloud, Lake George, 1923

suonko:

Wilhelm Gallof - Coral Chain [detail]

historyarchaeologyartefacts:

The Throne Room at the heart of the Bronze Age palace of Knossos, considered the oldest throne room in Europe. Crete, 15th century BC [1125x750]

meesoohl:

Fiona Roberts // Scopophilia