The Tower of Babel (detail), 1563 by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1525-1530–1569)
Category: Art
Figure — Odilon Redon
Figure, 1876 by Odilon Redon (1840-1916)
Head of a Turkey Cock — JMW Turner
Head of a Turkey Cock, 1820 by Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851)
Study of a Lemon Tree — Frederic Leighton
Study of a Lemon Tree, 1859 by Frederic Leighton (1830-1896)
The Tower of Babel (detail) — Pieter Bruegel the Elder
The Tower of Babel (detail), 1563 by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1525-1530–1569)
Sunday — John Lessore
Sunday, 1989 by John Lessore (b. 1939)
Old Woman with Distaff — Bartolome Esteban Murillo
Old Woman with Distaff, ca. 1642 by Bartolome Esteban Murillo (1617-1682)
Circus Woman — Nakaji Yasui
Circus Woman, 1940 by Nakaji Yasui (1903-1942)
My First Lesson — Wei Dong
My First Lesson, 2014 by Wei Dong (b. 1968)
Teju Cole on shattered glass
Teju Cole’s essay “The History of Photography is a History of Shattered Glass,” part of his “On Photography” series, is new in today’s New York Times.
From the essay:
Broken glass, and broken windows in particular, are a notable byway in photography’s history. Brett Weston made one of the most striking examples in San Francisco in 1937. Weston was not recording evidence of a crime, or even particularly making a sociological comment. He was describing an abstraction with his camera, the calligraphic presence of a jagged black hole surrounded by a gray remnant of glass. What has been broken away dominates the picture. We see an outline like a map of a fictional island. There’s more dark to see here than glass, and the darkness is deep and mysterious, a mouth agape in an unending scream. About this picture, John Szarkowski, the influential curator at the Museum of Modern Art, wrote that the black shape “is not a void but a presence; the periphery of the picture is background.” In the middle, in that darkness, is where Weston’s self-portrait would be, if the window were intact.
Against the Day II — Luc Tuymans
Against the Day II, 2009 by Luc Tuymans (b. 1958)
Satyrs — Cima da Conegliano
Satyrs, ca. 1505-1510 by Cima da Conegliano (ca. 1459 – ca. 1517)
Hunter in the Snow I — Joshua Hagler
Hunter in the Snow I, 2016 by Joshua Hagler (b. 1979)
A Great Master of Privacy — Marc Dennis
A Great Master of Privacy, 2013 by Marc Dennis (b. 1971)
Three Peaches — Adriaen Coorte
Three Peaches on a Stone Ledge with a Painted Lady Butterfly, 1695 by Adriaen Coorte (ca. 1665–1707)
Self Portrait with Beast — Julie Heffernan
Lot and His Daughters — Lucas van Leyden
Lot and His Daughters, 1520 by Lucas van Leyden (1494-1533)
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