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Clavis Artis is an alchemical manuscript published in Germany in three volumes in the late 17th or early 18th century...

I've written out and deleted an opening sentence to this lookbook probably about 30 times now - I don't know what to say. It feels really weird. I can't believe it really got made. I want to say how hard it was - but in the grand scheme of things it wasn't as hard as others had it. I want to say how thankful we are to

By Theodor Kittelsen, ca. 1904. Monsters of every stripe are collected here. The imagery that Tumblr bizarrely deemed insensitive to community standards: Weblog ◆ Books ◆ Videos ◆ Music ◆ Etsy

A glimpse of the ethereal here as we focus on Los Angeles based artist Roberto Benavidez and his glorious Hieronymus Bosch inspired Piñatas. A wondrous weave of both Mexican and Medieval European influences, It’s not often one stumbles across work as fabulously genre-bending. Intrigued, I contacted Roberto to find out more… You have a wonderfully enchanting […]

So inspired was filmmaker Gustav Deutsch by Hopper's unique vision of midcentury America that he recreated 13 of the painter's works for the big screen

Using "Oranges" by Gary Soto, "Daffodils" by William Wordsworth, and "The Red Wheelbarrow" by William Carlos Williams, I attempt to…

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San Francisco-based artist John Vochatzer channels Hieronymus Bosch in his dynamic and complex collages that utilize both religious iconography and natural imagery to shock and inspire. Vochatzer initially delved into surrealism as a teenaged oil painter “fruitlessly trying to emulate Salvador Dali”- since then, he has only further pursued “bizarre and fantastical” aesthetics, which converge powerfully in his works.

Joshua Flint’s painting ‘The Guest’ was shortlisted for this year’s Jackson’s Open Painting Prize. The painting depicts a suited man sat with his cane while a mountain seems to hover in front of him, while gestural marks create a painterly vignette on the edges of the composition. It is clear that the figure is painted from an old black and white photo, while the abstract elements and clashing motifs are layered over the top, always in response to what has been painted before. The work is a surrealist collage in oil paint, with the same mysticism and ambiguity. I wanted to ask Joshua Flint what exactly is he searching for in his paintings. Lisa: Who is ‘The Guest’ that the title of your painting refers to? Joshua: That is a good question . . . and I don’t know the answer. My paintings don’t provide answers in a pedagogical sense, as if I’ve learned something and am showing that in my work. When the painting is as much a mystery to me as to anyone else that’s when I call it completed. I feel it has to arrive at that place where I’m left guessing or wondering about what is going on in ...

It’s easy to think that there’s no good left in this world. Maybe you’ve had a rough week at work, a serious argument with your partner, or just had enough of the rudeness and cruelty of others. Whatever the reason, we all need a little pick-me-up now and then to remind ourselves that it’s not all bad.

A list of all the highlights and must-see places in Dresden. One day or a week, Saxon’s capital offers baroque castles, churches, and lovely day trips.

Sophie Lécuyer / Fabricante d'images. Catalogue des pièces (gravure, sérigraphie, illustration, édition)

Artuš Scheiner is an artist from Prague that was very active during the 1920's. Interestingly enough Scheiner started out with doodling and sketching, later deciding to push his hobby to illustration he became very well known for his Bohemian style. The colors are so vivid and the subject

The Kindred of the Kibbo Kift were a back-to-nature youth movement in the 1920s that wanted to build a better world. Head back in time to their tribal training camp – a riot of hooded men, homemade handicrafts, ritual dances and animal spirit chiefs

This mix of intriguing subjects and beautiful composition enamoured us so much that we asked Mathieu to shoot seven of his current favourite people just for us.

From Puss In Boots to The Company of Wolves, entrants to the 2012 Book Illustration competition were challenged to design a new edition of one of Angela Carter's most sensuous and sinister works, her short story collection The Bloody Chamber. Take a look at the efforts of the six illustrators shortlisted for the contest, run by the House of Illustration and The Folio Society

“I have been concerned with the creation of a formal imagery that is specifically female.” Eva Hesse and Hannah Wilke used everything from rope to liquid latex to create a new erotic language.

17th century documents found by Dorian Gerhold show that the blaze originated in what is now Monument Street - not Pudding Lane

These images by Mike Brodie are haunting and nostalgic. A talented, self-taught photographer (he found his first camera left behind on a car seat), Mike left home when he was 17, got hooked on the…

Der Fotograf James Horan dokumentierte in seiner irischen Heimat den Alltag berittener Jugend-Gangs.

I have so many challenging shoots planned in the weeks ahead, like building impossible props and digging a 10 foot long trench. It seems unlikely that all of my ideas will work out but I sure will give it a good try. I hear that digging in the rock desert requires heavy machinery...we'll see. Another addition to my "Sac" series here...freaked me out! I have a silly fear of bathtubs ever since the Rugrats episode where they thing they are going to get sucked down the drain. Bleh. A new prop is up for sale...http://shadenproductions.com/blog/2010/07/16/the-prop-project-tutus/ fb

Barbara and Michael Leisgen are a couple of German artists working at the intersection between photography, performance art and land-art since the early 1960s. For their series Mimesis, the silhouette of Barbara Leisgen is shown in the middle of a picture relating to the landscape. She mimics...

meanwhilebackinthedungeon: “… an enormous, mysterious figure bars our path through the dark depths. ”

Tatiana Lopez’s lush cyanotype portraits of Sapara women portray the intertwined connections between dreams, body, and nature.

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From a Medieval palace in Syria to a giant rubber duck floating in Hong Kong, DigitalGlobe features its best satellite imagery of the year

A rental property secretly transformed by the eccentric artist who lived there for three decades has been officially protected by the British government, five years after his death.

Sikander’s retrospective Extraordinary Realities gathers together themes of female multiplicity, queer desire, capitalist exploitation, and decolonial aesthetics.