Halves and Pieces

Maxim. Brooklyn, NY

[centuriespast]

Woman in Kimono Eating Octopus with Knife and Folk Japanese Late Meiji era Artist Unidentified, Japanese

MFA

[centuriespast]

Octopus Using Abacus Japanese Edo period Artist Unknown, Japanese

MFA

[daitacavang]

Story by Seiichi Hayashi.

[last-picture-show]

Vivian Maier, Self-Portrait, 1959

[girlartistsonly]

Artist: Yuki Ogura (1895-2000)

Yuki Ogura graduated from the Nara Women’s Normal School. Originally employed as a school teacher, her interest in art led her to study under painter Yukihiko Yasuda in 1920

In 1932, she became the first female member of the Japan Fine Arts Academy

Her paintings put a modern twist on the traditional Nihonga style

She lived to the age of 105

[grafrak-blog]

Youki Ogura, Perssimmon, 1940

[nemfrog]

Cavorting cats. Japanese fairy tale series: Schippeitaro. 1885-89.

[nemfrog]

Jimson weed wallpaper pattern.  Etude de la plante. 1903. 

[marthajefferson]

Cleopatra, details, 1524 - 1526, by Giampietrino (Giovanni Pietro Rizzoli) Oil painting. Bucknell University Art Gallery, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. High Renaissance.

[nobrashfestivity]

Edvard Munch, Melancholy III (Melankoli III), 1902. 

Woodcut with gouache additions

14 ¾ x 18 9/16

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[thegoldenyearz]

John Lennon and Yoko Ono, New York City, 1972

[nemfrog]

Motion study. 19th century. Kyosai Kawanabe. Die Körperformen in Kunst und Leben der Japaner. 1925.

[mrdingo]

Ernst Haeckel’s Jellyfish.

[pqfigurine]

Don Van Vliet In Pink Stockholm at Bellmansgatan, Sweden 1977.

[letswakeupworld]

A woman sits at the Nasir al-Mulk mosque in Shiraz, Iran. (Photo Credit: Mihaela Noroc)

[thunderstruck9]

Cressida Campbell (Australian, b. 1960), Kitchen Utensils, 1993. Hand-painted woodblock, 46 x 62 cm.

[terminusantequem]

Alecos Fassianos (Greek, b. 1935), I MISS YOU BIG CITY. Oil and gold leaf on canvas, 92 by 73cm (36¼ by 28¾ in.)