Les oiseaux de passage.

Pauline. France.

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Gaganendranath Tagore

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Rome, Italy (by Danil Sorokin)

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Paradise, Mount Rainier by Lazgrapher

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Museum Asks People To Recreate Paintings At Home, Gets 30 New Impressive Photos

It appears that boredom lies behind the most creative ideas. That's why quarantine has produced some of the most entertaining activities. One of them is the Getty Museum challenge, that so many of you have already seen in our previous article here.

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Narcissus taking a selfie is the ACTUAL best.

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These are all brilliant but I lost it at the Death of Marat kitty.

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Switzerland (by Patrick Bellon)

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Black Sea Coast, Bulgaria (by Krasi Matarov)

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November 14th, 1960-  6 year old Ruby Bridges, the first African-American child to attend an all white elementary school, being escorted from the premises by US federal marshals. Upon her arrival, angry parents pointed and yelled obscenities before removing their own children from the building, while one protester even paraded a coffin containing a black doll.

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Ballet class with Hugo Marchand, Paul Marque and  Silvia Saint-Martin

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“Really Morgause? That dress with those shoes?”

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Houten, Netherlands (by Joaquim Capitao)

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André Derain (French, 1880-1954), La Naissance de Vénus, d’après Botticelli, 1905. Watercolour and coloured crayon on paper, 38.7 x 53.2cm.

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Mathieu Ganio

Albert entrance

A study in perfection

(2016 version)

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Dorothée Gilbert

Giselle mad scene

photo: Isabelle Aubert

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Bianca Scudamore

Giselle rehearsal

photo: Yonathan Kellerman

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Giselle mad scene, tragedy of Albert

I don’t make the rules

[theladyintweed]

Fayum Mummy Portraits, dating from around 30 BC to the mid 3rd century AD. 

The portrait heads were attached to Egyptian mummies of the Roman period, covering the faces of the deceased In the top pictures, you can see now they were bound to the mummy. Dating from the time of the Roman occupation of Egypt, they are closest to Graeco-Roman artistic traditions. Around 900 are known to survive and they are some of the only surviving evidence of Classical panel painting traditions. Due to their burial in hot, dry conditions with the bodies, many have survived in excellent condition. 

The term Fayum comes from an area of graveyards (necropoli) where they were found in large numbers, buried in communal catacombs. 

Painted on wooden board (and sometimes on cloth), either in encaustic (wax) or egg tempera. 

[humansofnewyork]

“She left me fifteen years ago and took the kids back to Puerto Rico.  I barely talk to them anymore.  I stay at home and I be by myself.  When I get home and open that door everything is dark.  I try to play psychology with myself.  I’ll watch a good movie, or read the Bible, or take two pills and go to sleep early.  But it’s not working.  It’s not reality.  Reality, the reality is, I’m alone.  I need somebody, you know.  Somebody physically with me.  I need my family with me.  Whatever I did, I apologize.  For not listening.  For not taking her seriously.  She’d tell me: I don’t mind if you party some, but you need to pay attention to your family.  And I’d do it for awhile but then I’d forget.  I don’t know why, I was young.  I was bored.  I felt like I was trapped.  But now that I’m this age, I understand.  Those were the best days of my life.  Now I wish I had somebody to take care of.  The way I used to before– back in the nineties: two jobs, nice apartment, buying them everything.  Christmas, holidays.  I want to go to bed with my wife, with the kids in the other room, and tomorrow we go to work.  That’s it.  Normal.  I just want normal.“