art – Page 9 – darknesstohislight

cihuanaba:

Ayed Afarah | Palestinian

Horizon | 2010

This installation reflects the fact that he is prevented from visiting the Mediterranean Sea, which lies less than an hour away from his home due to the Israeli occupation of Palestine.

sonosenzameta:

Hayez. Klimt. Toulouse Lautrec, Munch. Magritte. Lorusso.

amonamartha:

Diaphena by Jerry

Source: psychic-entropy

vermillons:

Paintings in details : Pastels, part I.

smallpunks:

important pages from february

frootland:

I’M A RUIN x ART HISTORY

silvabism:

Apollo and Daphne
Jakob Auer (ca. 1645 – 1706)
Vienna, before 1688
Ivory

In his Metamorphoses, Ovid tells of the nymph Daphne, who eluded the desires of the sun god Apollo by turning herself into a laurel tree (Greek daphne, laurel).
The two-figure group depicts the beginning of this transformation. In travel reports from the Baroque period, this virtuoso piece of carving was already considered a major work of the Viennese imperial treasury.

Source: jeou

neptunianfairy:

asylum-art:

The Bees

Canadian artist Sarah Hatton links neonicotinoid pesticides present in crops to the worldwide decline of bee populations. To raise awareness on the issue, she started to create works of art from dead bees she’s collected. Hatton arranges the bees in patterns symbolically linked to monoculture crops destroying them—such as the Fibonacci spiral found in the seed pattern of the sunflower. This optical illusion represents the bees’ loss of ability to navigate due to neurotoxins.

SHUTNUP NO WAY