Monday, January 22, 2007
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Friday, January 12, 2007
Thursday, January 11, 2007
"Mad Meg"
"Dulle Griet" by Pieter Brueghel the Elder (c.1525 – September 9, 1569). Wonderful and apocalyptic painting. Imagine it set in Iraq.
Tuesday, January 09, 2007
Sunday, January 07, 2007
Saturday, January 06, 2007
Divisionism
Four paintings by the great Italian Divisionist Giusseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, Born in Volpedo, Tortona, Italy, in july 1868, commited suicide following the death of his beloved wife in july 1907.
He painted the famous political work "the fourth state", depicting striking workers marching to the front of the picture. This image was recreated by the filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci in his epic "1900"