THE SLANT

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[rickinmar]

the Biglin brothers ….models for Thomas Eakins…1871….

[necspenecmetu]

Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia, Pope Saint Fabian and Saint Sebastian, 15th century

[caravaggista]

Detail from Rembrandt’s Lucretia (1666) in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.

[josephcasciano]

Philip-Lorca DiCorcia, via Stephanie Goode.

[niklasnyman]

Amah Ayivi, Marche Noir, Ghetto Style

[authentic-boredom]

Regardless of one’s feelings about the traditional spectacle of bullfighting, one cannot but admire the extravagant costumes worn by toreros, which echo the flamboyant style of 19th-century dandies and are meticulously embroidered using shiny golden and silver thread — thus earning them the name ‘suit of lights’ (or ‘traje de luces’ in Spanish). Ever since the 1980’s, French painter Christian Gaillard has been creating portraits of bullfighters - his subjects include the greatest living bullfighters (some of whom are his personal friends) - in a detailed, almost photorealistic style

© Images courtesy of the artist

[westafricanwomen]

Nigerien (from Niger)

More West African women here

[cschoonover]

Narada Wesonga by Chris Schoonover

[22ackermann]

VOICES in my HEAD………..No.1

Heavy Rotation: Another Life*****

[jardoism]

[dollarstoreloser]

[freemarseille-blog-deactivated2]

2 Corinthians 5:17

Rollerball pen on paper

7” X 9”

2014

[mygirlhood]

Photograph by Paul Jung

[22ackermann]

BLACK tie REDUX………..No.5

[l-homme-que-je-suis-blog]

Loammi Goetghebeur

[amare-habeo]

[loverofbeauty]

Anonymous German Artist : Birds  (Les oiseaux), 1619

[mpdrolet]

Jesse Diamond

[hadrian6]

Detail : Apollo and Diana Punishing Niobe by Killing her Children. 1591.

Abraham Bloemaert. Dutch 1566-1651. oil/canvas.

http://hadrian6.tumblr.com

[les-sources-du-nil]

Margaret Severn Mask Dances by Nina Leen for LIFE Magazine, 1944

(courtesy of time/life see complete series here)