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Amy Crehore


La Cigale (1872)


Portrait of a Woman Holding a Fan


A Very Sexy Cleopatra


Three Beauties (1793)


Three Gold Fish (2003)


Fuco Ueda


Yakuza Poster


Ryan Heshka's Electroladylux


Snow 1939


Thurston The Great


Betty Boop


Spring by Kawase Hasui (1925)


Bather Arranging Her Hair by Renoir (1885)


Girl by the Sea 1990

Art
Alive in Kyoto
Art Deco
Bedazzled!
Bibi's box
Boonika
Coisas do arco da velha
Coudal Partners
Cipango
Datajunkie
Drawn!
Exclamation Mark
Femme
Fyama
Glubibulga
Growabrain
Indigo Blog
Japonisme
Little Hokum Rag
Malanda
Neurastenia
Nucleus
PCL
Plep
PonyXpress (NSFW)
RetroGrafix
RaShOmoN
Sampler of Things
Schaukasten
Scout Report
Seven Deadly Sinners
Sugar 'N Spicy
Tea Time

Favorite Living Artists
Amy Crehore
Ryan Heshka
Seonna Hong
Yumiko Kayukawa
Akino Kondoh
Sakae Kurada
Mizna Lens
Hu Ming
Yuki Nagayoshi
LeUyen Pham
Yuko Shimizu
Sai Tamiya
Fuco Ueda

Favorite Artists
Hieronymus Bosch
Fernando Botero
Sandro Botticelli
Alexander Calder
Mary Cassatt
Paul Cézanne
William Merritt Chase
Edgar Degas
Paul Delvaux
John William Godward
Hashiguchi Goyo
Suzuki Harunobu
Ando Hiroshige
Hokusai
Edward Hopper
Jules Joseph Lefebvre
Henri Matisse
Joan Miró
Coles Phillips
Pablo Picasso
Odilon Redon
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Théo van Rysselberghe
John Singer Sargent
Zinaida Serebriakova
Shoen Uemura
Kitagawa Utamaro
John William Waterhouse

Art Museums
Andrés Blaisten
Brooklyn Museum
Hagi Uragami
Guggenheim
Library of Congress
MoMA
Museo del Prado
Museum of the Moving Image
National Gallery of Art
SF MoMa
Smithsonian

The Hermitage
The Met

The Tate
Tokyo National
V&A
Vietnam Veterans
Whitney

Digital Archives
Academy of Natural Sciences
ARC
Cornell Library
deviantART
Indy Magazine
Japanalia Postcards
Nude Masterpieces
NY Public Library
UCR/CMP
Visipix
Web Gallery of Art

Art Zines/Indexes
AI-AP
American Art Archives
Art History Resouces
Artnet
Ch/Ja Art History
Exibart
Folio Planet
Lingnan School
Museums List
Theispot
NY Arts Magazine
Tokyo Art Beat

Universes in Universe

 


May
2008

05/12/2008

Art And Video Links For 05/12/2008

KuKulaland - The Strange and Wonderful Artwork of KuKula
These are great!  I love her unique weird doll-like style. I want one!  Also, read Kukula's bio; it's a riot!


Kitty Cat (2006)


Hobbie Time (2006)
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Wiktor Michajlowitsch Wassnezow
"Viktor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov (1848— Moscow, June 23, 1926) was a Russian artist who specialized in mythological and historical subjects. He is considered a key figure of the revivalist movement in Russian art."  You can find a complete list (226 Images) of his Wikimedia images is here.


Angel (1885-1896)


Gamaun - The Prophetic Bird (1897)
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Bogdan Prystrom - The Photomontage Gallery
Also, here is a video of Bogdan's amazing artwork.


Untitled
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Bathing Suit from the 1920s
There was just one of these, but isn't it great?


A Bathing Beauty
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Mojo Repair Shop Via Little Hokum Rag
This site specializes in classic and sexy album covers.


The Surf Creature
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The Art of Alex Gross  Via Femme
I blogged Alex Gross over four years ago.  I still like his artwork.  It reminds me of old Japanese advertising and propaganda posters.


Ice Cream Cone (2007)
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The Ramones - Pet Sematary [Lyrics]
When I read that story sickening story about the Pentagon using a pet crematorium for our soldiers, I thought this song by the Ramones says it best for all veterans.  BTW, if you are going to continue your goddamn war for oil, please make damn sure you take care of the soldiers by providing them proper gear in Iraq, proper health care and also helping them with education, etc. after they served thier country, and please don't bury them in pet cemetery for Christ's sakes!


The Ramones
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Carmen Cavallaro - Voodoo Moon Via Rip Rense
When you watch this video, you will understand why this guy was called the Poet of the Piano.


Poet of the Piano
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The Velvet Underground - Sweet Jane (Live)
This reminds me of an old girlfriend, but I can't remember what her name was. ;-)


Lou Reed
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Flying Lizards - And Then He Kissed Me
This is kind of a surreal video, but lot's of fun.


The Flying Lizards
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The Colbert Report on Oil Profiteering
Colbert skewers Big Oil's propaganda machine.


Stephen Colbert
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Great tits cope well with warming
Yet bet!

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Dorothea Tanning

Dorothea Tanning
"Dorothea Tanning (born August 25, 1910) is an American painter, printmaker, sculptor and writer. She has also designed sets and costumes for ballet and theatre."  She was also the wife of Dada and Surrealist artist Max Ernst.  In fact, I found out about Ms. Tanning when I watched a documentary about the life of Max Ernst.  In the movie, they showed her most famous painting Birthday (below), which inspired me to write this article.  In addition to Wikimedia, I found collections of her images at Frey Norris Gallery, Bluffton University, The Tate and Ten Dreams.  Also, here is a YouTube video tribute of her work.


Birthday (1942)
Note: Scroll down to see the painting.


Family Portrait (1954)


Bayou

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Photos From The Allied Occupation Of Japan (1948-1951)

JAPAN : 1948-1951 : Photography & Social Research during the Allied Occupation
This is a fascinating collection of 300 photographs (online rare book) that John W. Bennett took during the Allied Occupation of Japan.  This is very interesting time in which Japan was re-discovering itself in its new found government based on Western democracy.  This is also from the period that was part of the Golden Age Japanese cinema, e.g., Rashomon and Late Spring.

Here's a description from the introduction of the exhibit:

Photographs taken by anthropologist John W. Bennett in occupied Japan, 1948-1951, (a few were made in the 1960's during his term at Waseda University), with comments on the photos by Bennett. Also included are extensive selections from Bennett's professional journal of the period, and other documents. Consisting of a personal and professional memoir, this site is also a record of a unique experiment in social analysis and research that focuses on a period of particular significance in the development of Japanese and international history, politics, economics, and culture.

There are diverse portfolio sections that cover everything from Iconic Mt. Fuji to the prostitutes in Women of the Night.

Here's a selection of John Bennett's photos I liked best, but it was very hard to choose because there so many fascinating images.


A Musical Bodhisatva


Mount Fuji from Misawa Pass


Children visit the Great Buddha in Kamakura


The Great Kaminarimon--"Thunder Gateway" to the Asakusa Kannon (1962)


Another Heian Female Personality in the Jidai Matsuri Procession (1962)
 


Hotel Umbrellas Drying in the Sun at a Ryokan (Traditional-Style Inn) in Atami


Ama Diving Girls

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05/05/2008

Japanese Calendar And Industrial Advertising Images

Japanese Advertising Images
I'm not even sure how I found these lithographs, but there is a little treasure trove of some really nice Japanese calendar and advertising images on this site.  Unfortunately, the Babelfish translation of this page is pretty hard understand, but the images speak for themselves.  The main page for this site is here.


Okada Saburo help picture (1908)


Temple pine Kunitarou picture (1915-17)


Wada three structure picture (1909)


The greenery picture (1931)

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Art And Video Links For 05/05/2008

Ernest Normand
I really couldn't find that much information about Normand on the Internet except I found out that he was married to one of the members Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood Henrietta Rae.


The White Slave (1894)
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T. Privat-Livemont
I wish there were more examples available of his wonderful posters.


Absinthe Robette (1896)
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Albert Lynch
What a sweetheart, no?


The Letter
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Dizzy Gillespie - "Salt Peanuts" - 1947
The one and only.


Dizzy
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Captain Beefheart - Big Eyed Beans from Venus (1980)
We're down to the dozens!


Distant Cousins, There's a Limited Supply.
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Monty Python - Salad Days
This is one of my favorite Python sketches.


Michael Palin Stars in Samuel Peckinpah's Salad Days
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The Empire Strikes Barack


Uh-oh!
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The Art of Symbolist Painter Carlos Schwabe

Carlos Schwabe [Bio]
These are selected images by the fascinating Swiss-German Symbolist painter and illustrator Carlos Schwabe (not to be confused with Charles Schwab).  I really like to get the book Les Fleurs du Mal by Charles Meunier in 1900, which many of Schwabe's images below were taken from.  The Hymne below reminds me a lot of William Blake's work.  I also found out that Spleen and Ideal an album by Dead Can Dance (a great album) was inspired by the image with the same name from Fleurs du Mal. There are more images of his work available at the Pony Gallery and at ArtMagic.
 


Les Fleurs du Mal Illustration, Hymne (1900)


Ange d'espérance (1895)


The Grave Digger's Death (1895) via AHR


Les Fleurs du Mal Illustration, Destruction 1900


Study For The Wave 2 (1907)
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April 2008

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