Why

art i like, modern & contemporary

[artist-delaunay]

Eiffel Tower, Robert Delaunay

https://www.wikiart.org/en/robert-delaunay/eiffel-tower

[artist-francesca]

Polyptych of the Misericordia, Piero della Francesca

Medium: oil,panel,tempera

https://www.wikiart.org/en/piero-della-francesca/polyptych-of-the-misericordia-1462

[eroscestlavie]

Gran Fury, All People With Aids Are Innocent, 1988 

[yonkou]

[artist-poussin]

Martyrdom of St. Erasmus, Nicolas Poussin

Medium: oil,canvas

https://www.wikiart.org/en/nicolas-poussin/martyrdom-of-st-erasmus-1628

[riverlarking]

Tony Curtis has said that he asked Billy Wilder if he could imitate Cary Grant for his stint as the millionaire in the movie. Wilder liked it and they shot it that way. Apparently, Grant saw the parody of himself and stated, jokingly, “I don’t talk like that!”

[artist-manray]

Nut Girls (Les Filles des Noix), Man Ray

Medium: collage

https://www.wikiart.org/en/man-ray/nut-girls-les-filles-des-noix

[hirokazukoreeda]

Grey Gardens 1975, dir.  Ellen Hovde, Albert and David Maysles, Muffie Meyer.

[artist-francesca]

Polyptych of the Misericordia, Piero della Francesca

Medium: oil,panel,tempera

https://www.wikiart.org/en/piero-della-francesca/polyptych-of-the-misericordia-1462

[theartofangirling]

some memes I made to express my current frustrations with academia feel free to add your own

[operaqueen]

Mary Martin as Maria for the original Broadway production of The Sound of Music, wearing a gown by Mainbocher, 1959.

[archaeologicalnews]

Ancient Egyptians discovered Algol's variability 3,000 years before western astronomers

An ancient Egyptian papyrus, known as the Cairo Calendar, could be the oldest historical record of a star’s brightness, providing a new perspective on the development of the Algol triple star system over thousands of years.

Known as the Calendar of Lucky and Unlucky Days, the Cairo Calendar, dated from 1244 – 1163 BC, assigns predictions and prognoses to every day of the Egyptian year. These prognoses indicate whether the day, or part of the day, is considered “good” or “bad”. The calendar also contains information regarding the day’s astronomical observations, such as the behaviour of astronomical objects, especially Algol.

Now researchers say that the astronomical symbolism discovered in the two most Ancient Egyptian myths suggest similar clues could be found in other ancient Egyptian texts. Read more.

[artist-caravaggio]

Young Sick Bacchus, Caravaggio

Medium: oil,canvas

https://www.wikiart.org/en/caravaggio/young-sick-bacchus

[updownfragile]

Ousmane Sembène

[oupacademic]

“The mind is its own place, and in it self Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n”

— John Milton, who died on this day in 1674, from Paradise Lost

[artist-vaneyck]

Donor and St. John the Baptist, Jan van Eyck

Medium: oil,wood

https://www.wikiart.org/en/jan-van-eyck/donor-and-st-john-the-baptist-1432

[speciesbarocus]

Lucas Cranach the Elder - Paul (c. 1515). Details.

[princess-evian]

Wicked use of reflections