THE ART THIEVES

"What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose." -Willa Cather

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Regina Cordium Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1866

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Self Portrait as St. Sebastian, 1914.

Egon Schiele

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“They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.” -Frida Kahlo

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Thomas Francis Dicksee - Ophelia 1864

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The Magic Circle (1886) | John William Waterhouse

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At first glance these images probably appeared to be nothing more than photographs of a young girl but in actual fact they are frighteningly realistic paintings by Gottfried Helnwein

“In retrospect I would say from Donald Duck I have learned more about life than from all the schools I ever attended.”

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He is my favorite painter. He is magnificent!

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Holy shit! I didn’t even look twice in thinking they were photographs.

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Konstantin Flavitsky “Princess Tarakanova”

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Mariana in the South

John William Waterhouse

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Le génie du mal [The genius of evil, aka; Lucifer]; Guillaume Geefs 

“The statue was originally a commission for Geefs’ younger brother Joseph, who completed it in 1842 and installed it the following year. It generated controversy at once and was criticized for not representing a Christian ideal.The cathedral administration declared that “this devil is too sublime.” The local press intimated that the work was distracting the “pretty penitent girls” who should have been listening to the sermons.” [x]

[The original ‘sublime’ version shown below, and the ‘revised’ one in the photoset above]

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> Make sculpture of the devil

> No this sculpture is too hot for church

> Make another one

> It’s even hotter

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INGRES, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Roger Freeing Angelica 1819 Oil on canvas, 147 x 190 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris

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sleep and his half-brother death (detail), john william waterhouse

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti - The Day Dream, 1880

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Mary Magdalene at the Door of Simon the Pharisee Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1853 

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Night and Sleep Evelyn De Morgan 1878 

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Sir Edward Poynter, Diadumene, 1883

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Johannes von Indersdorf

Spruchsammlung von Eigenbesitz. Büchlein von der geistlichen Gemahelschaft

BSB Cgm 775, [S.l.] Bayern, 1454