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Gaze at one hundred years of people knitting.
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Fosse… anche l’unico canto libero di Ophelia lasciami sfumare così infiorata di mia follia in assolo del fato che mi trascina via... ~ Catherine La Rose© ~ Friedrich Wilhelm Theodor Heyser was a German painter from Gnoien/Dresden. He began studying at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts under Leon Pohle and Paul Mohn. After initially spending three years in Dresden, he attended the Kunsthochschule in Karlsruhe and then the Académie Julian in Paris. After completing his studies Heyser devoted himself mainly to portraits and historical paintings. Among the portrayed were numerous prominent figures such as Prince Regent Albrecht of Braunschweig, Prince Albrecht of Prussia and Prince Johann Georg of Saxony. In addition, Heyser created genre pictures, whose representations were based on German poetry, for example, "The Fisherman" after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1886).
Fabio Cipolla was an Italian painter🎨 who was trained in Rome, where acquired considerable skill in the study of the figure to be composed in refined genre scenes, he also devoted himself to the landscape painting. With studies of oriental figures he made his first appearance at the exhibitions in Milan in 1879 and in Turin in 1880, and in the following years he developed the adoption of a mannered narrative realism on genre subjects.
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Shallow, fickle, fleeting and excruciatingly awkward - these are some words that might describe dating today, as opposed to the more formal, practical and polite courting of our parents' era. How better to illustrate these differences than by contrasting modern attitudes to love with vintage comics from more innocent times?
Sometimes you have to be your own best friend.
Shallow, fickle, fleeting and excruciatingly awkward - these are some words that might describe dating today, as opposed to the more formal, practical and polite courting of our parents' era. How better to illustrate these differences than by contrasting modern attitudes to love with vintage comics from more innocent times?
Raised in a small farming town in eastern Utah, American painter Trent Gudmundsen spent his childhood surrounded by people who worked hard and lived simply, and he was driven from an early age to record his impressions of life in paint.
One of Britain’s most popular artists through much of the 19th century, Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema became something of a joke in the 20th.
Under the nom de plume Peteski, Peter Nidzgorski fills his site This isn’t Happiness with deliciously wicked updates on mid-Century panels from love story comic books. It;s collaborate stuff because Nidzgorski invites readers to submit lines which he adds to a panel. Modern love never looked better… … Continue reading "This Isn’t Happiness: Mid-Century Romance Comic Books Updated Into Tales Of Shallow Lives And Empty Sex"
Historians will say they were ‘good friends.’
Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser, co-curator of Sargent: Portraits of Artists and Friends, describes Sargent's practice of dressing the subjects of his portraits.
What type of witch are you? In this blog post, we give you a detailed explanation and history for 20 of our favourite types of witches. Click to read more.
From copy machines to beauty routines this is what your mothers and grandmothers had to contend with. Aren't you glad times have changed?
1959
Life was a whole lot different back in the 50s and these vintage photos are here to prove that.
Get ready to feel the nostalgia!
Every visit to the grocery store found me hounding my mother for a nickel or two so I could ride the stationary pony to nowhere. She always gave in and handed me a few nickels to keep me riding the…
Old Toys "R" Us Sign Originally uploaded by Neato Coolville . I can only dream of going back in time and walking through the toy aisles ch...
If you are under 55, you simply won’t understand…
1959
Betty Byrnes strung together some fond common memories from the 1950s into a vicarious video adventure. The video features products, songs, and brands for the Baby Boomer generation to reminisce on. The video features everything from captured photographs to advertisements to products to postcards from the decade. The pictures are shown up close, drawing attention
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