Category Archives: Art

Art Du Jour

Posted on February 8, 2014 by Blowhard, Esq.

Blowhard, Esq. writes: Frank Frazetta, “Desperation,” 1971 Click on the image to enlarge.

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Cinemagraphs

Posted on February 5, 2014 by Enzo Nakamura

Enzo Nakamura writes: I love GIFS and I especially love Cinemagraphs, an approach to GIF-making that involves isolating an individual element that will play out a looping animation while the rest of the image remains still. I believe a fashion … Continue reading →

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Art Du Jour

Posted on January 31, 2014 by Blowhard, Esq.

Blowhard, Esq. writes: Utagawa Kuniyoshi, “Battlefield Carnage,” c. 1840s

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Innocence and Experience

Posted on January 27, 2014 by Blowhard, Esq.

Blowhard, Esq. writes: Two portraits of Marie Antoinette: Martin van Meytens, 1767-1768. She is 12 or 13 years-old. Jacques-Louis David, 1793. David sketched this as she was being taken to the guillotine, age 37. Click on the images to enlarge.

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Art Du Jour

Posted on January 24, 2014 by Eddie Pensier

Eddie Pensier writes: Gustav Klimt, Water Snakes II (1907)

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Regicide Du Jour

Posted on January 22, 2014 by Blowhard, Esq.

Blowhard, Esq. writes: Via these lectures which I’m in the middle of now (and highly recommend), today I learned that 221 years ago yesterday, Louis XVI was executed. Please mourn or celebrate as your politics require. A picture of Louis … Continue reading →

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Salomé, Five Ways

Posted on January 18, 2014 by Eddie Pensier

Eddie Pensier writes: And when a convenient day was come, that Herod on his birthday made a supper to his lords, high captains, and chief estates of Galilee; And when the daughter of the said Herodias came in, and danced, and … Continue reading →

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Art Du Jour

Posted on January 16, 2014 by Blowhard, Esq.

Blowhard, Esq. writes: Pieter Bruegel the Elder, “The Hunters in the Snow,” 1565. Click on the image to enlarge.

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If You Insist

Posted on January 15, 2014 by Blowhard, Esq.

Blowhard, Esq. writes: Artist and date unknown. Click on the image to enlarge.

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The Crossroads of Infinity

Posted on January 13, 2014 by Blowhard, Esq.

Blowhard, Esq. writes: Jack Kirby, Fantastic Four #51, 1966

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