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Lili Marberg as Salome by Leopold Schmutzler(details)

Oil stick, gouache, oil paint and acrylic paint on 78 canvases

Phyllis Shafer’s landscapes make me fucking insane

the kiss on the bare shoulder (eyes perfectly averted), the cheek caress, the piano and the violin, the interrupted embrace, the woman tilted back as in a half-stopped dance…

just look at her. just look.

─ Ixion Chained in Tartarus by Alexandre Denis Abel de Pujol (1824)

Details of Atalanta by John William Godward (1861-1922, British). By artgarments

Gottfried Niemann (1882 - 1950) - View of Hochblassen, Alpspitze, Zugspitze and Waxenstein. 1920. Oil on canvas.

Born in 1957 in the province of Tianjin, He Jiaying studied traditional Chinese painting at the Tianjin Institute of Art and went on to become a council member of the Chinese Artists Association and a lecturer at his alma mater. He’s style combines the precision and realism of gongbi painting with European subject matter such as the art of ballet, and female figures. In The Ballet, He depicts with sharp technique and muted colors the behind-the-scenes of three ballet dancers who are occupied not with dancing, but rather sewing pointe shoes and sipping loose-leaf tea.  

Andrew Wyeth (American, 1917-2009)

2015

Medium: oil,panel

Photos courtesy of & taken by Laura H. Knight (first, second). 

Carrie (1976) | Study for Lady Macbeth (1851) The Witch (2015) | Witches’ Flight (1797)  The Lighthouse (2019) | Hypnosis (1904) Parasomnia (2008) | AA72 (1972) The Cell (2000) | Dawn (1989)

A close up so you can see the stipples

Jeremy Miranda

‘Slug’ by Nagasawa Rosetsu (1754-1799), painter of the Maruyama school.