Dark Arts and Crafts

Jamie Wyeth - Dog, 1979.

Thomas Wilmer Dewing, The Song, 1891, oil on canvas, 26 1/2 x 34 in. The Lunder Collection, 2013.111

Franz von Stuck, Sensuality, 1898

Drtikol continued to photograph, eventually specializing in photography of the nude. His images are believed to be among the first photographic nude studies ever made in Bohemia. In 1935 Dritkol abandoned photography to return to painting, his first love, which he believed could better express his burgeoning spirituality.

Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis Zodiac Paintings. early 1900s

The City: 2000 A.D.: Urban Life Through Science Fiction (1976, cover illustration by Larry Kresek)

MAN RAY // 1938 “MAN RAY’S MANNEQUIN” INTERNATIONAL SURREALISM EXHIBITION [gelatin silver print | 5 1⁄4 x 3 1⁄2”]

photographer: Dino Pedriali

“Shortly after my return to England, I received an invitation to a big fancy-dress ball at the Albert Hall. As I had plenty of time, and I was in Russia on a holiday, I ordered a Russian costume in St. Petersburg. I had found some sixteenth-century gold brocade embroidered with red flowers, and the costume was magnificent: studded with precious stones, edged with sable, with a toque to match. It caused a sensation. I met all London at the ball, and the next day my photograph was in every paper. ”-Prince Felix Youssoupoff, Lost Splendor 

Le Corbusier’s Chapelle Notre-Dame-du-Haut de Ronchamp, 1975. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.

dance (since yesterday demo) // strawberry switchblade

Bruce Springsteen, NYC 1977. Photograph by Lynn Goldsmith

Tortoiseshell and gem notebook case ordered by King Augustus II the Strong. before 1733.

Jacopo da Sellaio - Triumph of Time. Detail. 1485 - 1490

Jacques de Lalaing 1890s