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Art works by the Palestinian artist Ismail Shammout .

He’s definitely one of the greatest.  ( I even can’t find a favorite piece so have a look at all of his works at this gallery ).

The fact that he captured the soul of the Palestinian person , the details of the Palestinian face  and the aspiration for freedom is amazing. The rule of the family as a unit and the rule Palestinian women in the struggle towards freedom side by side to the man is shown clearly .

The famous Palestinian artist was born on 2.3.1930 in the town of Lydda in Palestine. At the age of 18 he was among hundreds of thousands of Palestinians that witnessed the tragedy of being forced out of their homes and towns by zionist forces in order to create Israel. This dramatic experience was reflected in many of his paintings and influenced his entire career. His hopes and dreams to return one day to his beloved Palestine tied him to the struggle and fight of the Palestinians for their just cause; their own State. He expressed his emotions, fears, sufferings, hopes and dreams, which are shared by all the Palestinian people, through his paintings.(x)

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Woman Selling Figs, 1974. By Syrian painter Louay Kayyali

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(sculpting rock) by Hirotoshi Itoh Jiyuseki

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Sebastian Hempel: MVI 5502

via todayandtomorrow

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KARIN MILLER

South African Artist, Karin Miller’s work is thought provoking with an eclectic sense of cultural study.

In Miller’s own words her work is “a visual play between beauty and tragedy, rhythm and interruption – searching for a sense of order in the overwhelming chaos of life. Two main metaphors I use are those of disguise and pattern. Apart from the obvious masks, I play games of hide and seek with the viewer. Issues are veiled; in the discovery of detail, deceit is revealed and absurdly inverted.”

via two wonderful blogs ArtsyForager, EscapeintoLife

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Trenton Doyle Hancock

“Rememor with Membry,” 2001 Acrylic on canvas, 54 x 66 inches

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‘CDsea’ installation using 600,000 unwanted CDs from the general public by Designer Bruce Munro. 

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Various Works of Artist Tamara Natalie Madden, a Jamaican painter whose creations function as allegories to empower the everyday people of African Diaspora.

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Recently Opened: “Sunday”  Ruud van Empel STUX Gallery, 530 W25th St., NYC digitally collaged photographs of children in mysteriously lush paradises, these images confront photography’s authority of authenticity with painterly stylizations and an almost cinematic experience of parallel time frames.   - thru Oct 20

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Judith, by Artemesia Gentileschi, a Roman painter in the early 1620s. Gentileschi was raped and actually prosecuted her rapist in court, and the trial went on for like seven months and she was verbally abused and harassed, she underwent a physical exam to prove her virginity, she was physically tortured to see if she was telling the truth, and her rapist was actually found guilty! But he was only sentenced to a few months of exile.   Shortly after the trial, the church said she couldn’t paint the Virgin Mary or any other religious depictions because they couldnt have someone who was raped painting things for the church. She then began painting things like this and in every painting she put the face of her rapist as the man being killed.

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Frida Kahlo, Girl With Death Mask (She Plays Alone), 1938

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Moon mask possibly early 19th century Historic  Yup’ik 

Alaska

Princeton University Art Museum

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Mark Jenkins - City (2012)

“Sculptor Mark Jenkins’s City series is comprised of hilariously twisted, disconcertingly lifelike sculptures placed in public spaces in odd postures, often in seeming distress or danger, usually with a broadly humorous undertone, much to the bafflement of the general public.”

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Vessel in the form of a smiling seated shaman whose horn is the spout, facing left and holding a baton 200 B.C.–A.D. 200 Late Preclassic 

Mexico

Princeton University Art Museum

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Female figure with two heads/”pretty lady” figure ca. 1200 B.C. Early Preclassic  Tlatilco 

Central Mexico

Princeton University Art Museum

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Artemisia Gentileschi - badass Baroque artist and student of Caravaggio - is most famous for this painting (Judith Slaying Holofernes). Although the scene is a dramatic Biblical story, and therefore often painted, Gentileschi’s is particularly powerful because she painted herself as Judith, and painted her former mentor and rapist, Agostino Tassi, as Holofernes. 

Oh, plus Artemisia Gentileschi is the earliest known working female Artist (in Western art).

Basically I love her.

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Politically-Driven Portrait Made of 3,500 Lipsticks

For a show at Birzeit University, Palestinian artist Amer Shomali chose to create a portrait of Leila Khaled, the woman known as the “poster girl of Palestinian militancy.” Unlike a typical portrait, Shomali’s medium of choice for this project is lipstick. Rather than painting the iconic member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine with paints or even drawing her image with lipstick, the artist uses a custom-built board on which fully intact tubes of lipsticks are affixed—3,500 tubes, to be exact.

Using 14 different colors, Shomali has managed to recreate the famous image of the revolutionary woman wearing a kaffiyeh and holding an AK-47. Though it’s not entirely clear why Khaled’s pixelated portrait titled The Icon is made specifically out of lipstick, the piece is open to interpretations. One theory could be the intriguing and controversial juxtaposition of a powerful and independent woman with an item that is associated with frivolous materialism and femininity and how it parallels the contrasting image of Khaled herself, a woman adorned with a traditional Arab headdress typically worn by men while holding a destructive firearm.

check out the time-lapse video

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I’VE GOT A LOT OF FEELINGS ABOUT THIS