mimesis

Dalton Paula, João de Deus Nascimento, 2018

© Souhila Bel Bahar

Kazimir Malevich, Red House, 1932

Kazimir Malevich, Woman Worker in Red, 1933

The printer advertises his shop as “an art institute for modern posters,” and the designer gives him the image to go with it—that of an artisan lithographer, pipe and all, submitting a proof to the critical eye of a female customer. It’s obviously a high-class printing establishment. Fischer was born in Leipzig and worked as a painter, decorator, and lithographer; he earned an honorary title of professor at the Dresden Academy.

Luc-Olivier Merson (1846-1920) — Allegory of Time   (oil on canvas, 1896)

Huang Yuxing (Chinese, b. 1975), Mandala Reality, 2016-18. Acrylic on canvas, 200 x 300 cm.

Berenice Kolko | Ten Photographs of Frida Kahlo, 1953-1954; printed 1996

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Latin 432, detail of f.99r. Petrus de Herenthals, Collectarium in Psalmos. 15th century. Demons advising a money lender.

Alphonse Mucha (Czech, 1860-1939) – Clair de Lune (moonlight) 1902' Moon and Stars Series

Fernando Botero: Orchestra, 1991 (Columbian artist born 1932-)

“Sharecropper,” 1952, by Elizabeth Catlett © Catlett Mora Family Trust / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Bronze statuette of Aphrodite, 250-150 BC. Greek, found in Syria. Ohio Museum.

Byron Browne 1945

Kasamatsu Shiro Flowers of all seasons

(via Camille Bombois. Before Entering the Ring. 1930-35 | MoMA)