Jacksonstudios

artforadults:

Nude by John Markese

nevver:

“Your life isn’t a work of art - it’s a thirdhand Victorian whatnot shelf, complete with someone else’s collection of seashells and hand-carved elephants.” — Kurt Vonnegut

meme-rage:

Baby hippo

http://meme-rage.tumblr.com

cavetocanvas:

Tom Wesselmann, Still Life #12, 1962

From the Smithsonian American Art Museum:

In Still Life #12, Wesselmann attached commercial images of frosty beverages and freshly cooked food to a painted facsimile of a red-checked tablecloth. A window in the background turns out to be a photograph of an orchard, with two cutout areas colored to resemble photographs of a lemon and an apple. For these painted elements, the artist heated up the already intense colors of advertisements to create what he called an “aggressive” picture. Two bottles of Coca Cola, painted on stamped metal, push outward from the surface, complicating our sense of what is real and what is invented. Wesselmann’s luscious images of food and drink point to another kind of desire. The apple and the breast-shaped lemon perch on the threshold of the Garden of Eden, while, below, a glistening, trussed ham and two strategically placed cans of “Bustelo” coffee stand in for one of the Great American Nudes that made Wesselmann the bad boy of American art. Wesselmann enjoyed the publicity that the pop artist label brought him, but he insisted that his collages expressed something more important than consumer culture. Still Life #12 recasts old traditions of the nude, the still life, and landscape painting in the hip language of modern American life.

meme-rage:

My mom figured out photoshop, her first work of art.

http://meme-rage.tumblr.com

collegehumor:

Puritan Valentine’s Day Cards [Click for more]

Let us never speak of this again.

nevver:

They found the girl from The Origin of the World

darksilenceinsuburbia:

Howard Hodgkin. Americana, 199-2001. Oil on wood, 35 ¾ x 43 ½”.

 

 

http://www.howard-hodgkin.com/

nevver:

Elk