the accidental architect

Virtual visions of @10deep \

Suction, Franco Mazzucchelli

Return to Magenta, Marilyn Mugot

No Vacancy, Emily Fromm

Simon Verelst. Detail from Portrait of Nell Gwynn, 17th Century.

2001: a recreation, Simon Birch

— RM (@dorsalstream)

Details from “Head of Medusa”, c.1617-18, Peter Paul Rubens. Taken by me at the Kunsthistoriches Museum, Vienna. (Another detail here)

Winona Ryder as Mina Murray in Dracula - 1992

When Rita Hayworth, the Hollywood actress, was asked by Look magazine how she would cast herself, she chose Whistler’s Mother. Consequently, the article features a picture of Hayworth assuming the same pose but with her legs in full view, with the picture on the wall displaying her lying on a bed clothed in a two-piece bathing suit. The article explains that « Rita Hayworth, a mother herself, longs to portrait Whistler’s Mother with emphasis on the whistle ». The whistlers, of course, are men, who are likely to be less interested in the fact that she is a mother than that she is an attractive woman, The allusion to the male habit of whistling at an alluring woman (a far cry from the woman in the original portrait) brings us back, full-cicle, to the humorous connotations of the painter’s name. At Home in the World: A Study in Psychoanalysis, Religion, and Art - Donald Capps

From the Sep. 24, 1971 cover story: ROCK STARS AT HOME WITH THEIR PARENTS. Frank Zappa in his Los Angeles home with his dad, Francis, his mom, Rosemarie, and his cat in 1970. (John Olson—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) #LIFElegends #FrankZappa #TBT