yellow paint

Art is to console those who are broken by life.

[the-garden-of-delights]

[detournementsmineurs]

“Portrait of a Woman” (detail) by Giovanni Battista Gaulli (1639-1709).

[antoniettabrandeisova]

Floral Still Life with Roses (detail),

Mary Hiester Reid (American, 1854-1921

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Details from Le sommeil, 1866.

Gustave Courbet (French, 1819–1877)

Oil on canvas

[overdose-art]

ambrosius benson (lombardy c. 1495-1550)

salvator mundi

[loumargi]

Sandro Botticelli

[oncanvas]

The Etruscan Scene: Female Ritual Dance, Andy Warhol, 1985

Acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas 106.7 x 142.2 cm (42 x 56 in.)

[iamjapanese]

UEHARA Konen（上原古年 Japanese, 1878-1940）

Waves   波濤図  1900-1920  woodcut print    via

[overdose-art]

Winslow Homer, Northeaster (detail)

[simena]

Francesco Gonin (detail)

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Después del baño, 1909.

Joaquín Sorolla (Spanish, 1863-1923)

Oil on canvas

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Details from Les Trois Grâces

Émile-René Ménard (French, 1862-1930)

Oil on canvas

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Details from The Consolation, 2014. 

Ron Hicks (American, b. 1965)

Oil on canvas

[simena]

RODOLFO MORGARI (detail)

[fordarkmornings]

Farewell. Arthur Hacker (British, 1858-1919)

Il consiglio alla vendetta. Francesco Hayez (Italian, 1791-1882)

[indefenseofart]

Yinka Shonibare’s The Swing (2001) –a work that is a direct adapatation of Jean-Honoré Fragonard's  L'Escarpolette (1767). Shonibare’s headless mannequin–an allusion to the downfall of the aristocracy post-French Revolution–is dressed in African print Dutch wax printed cotton dress, a historically burdened fabric that represents the diaspora and postcolonial hybridity that is central to his practice.

[cordisartis]

Alexander the Great

1982

Andy Warhol 

[monsieurleprince]

Wilhelm Kray (1828 - 1889) - Psyche, 1870-80