René Magritte (1898 – 1967)
Pomelo: klein Nuernbergische Hesperiden
Volckamer
Darzacq
News
First, there was
Bubbles
Then, just in time......
for Valentine, a
Hanging Heart
Artist Jeff Koons's brilliant magenta heart and gold undulating bow,
which took ten years from conception to completion,
is one of five uniquely colored versions.
is one of five uniquely colored versions.
The monumental heart’s perfect surface
is coated in more than ten layers of paint.
is coated in more than ten layers of paint.
Executed in high chromium stainless steel,
Hanging Heart weighs over 3,500 pounds,
is almost nine feet tall and took over 6,000 man hours to produce.
Sotheby's sale of Hanging Heart for $23 million
was a record for a living artist.
was a record for a living artist.
Koons has been named by BMW to create the next "Art Car."
Koons, a onetime Wall Street commodities broker,
strides the line between high art and kitsch.
Koons at Palazzo Grassi, Venezia
Koons, a onetime Wall Street commodities broker,
strides the line between high art and kitsch.
Koons at Versailles
Back and Forth
Displayed at the American Museum of Natural History;
Made from the silk of one million golden orb spiders.
To produce the unique golden cloth, 70 people spent four years
collecting golden orb spiders from telephone poles in Madagascar,
while another dozen workers carefully extracted about 80 feet
of silk filament from each of the arachnids.
Lend Me Your Lips
Akhenaten, 1364 BCE
Chuck Close
Ron Mueck
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Egyptian Collection, 2,000 B.C.E.
Jardin du Luxembourg, Fontaine Médicis, été 2006
mannequin, New York
Aphrodite 2007
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Damas, desnudos, curas y cópulas
Antonio Saura. Erótica:
Damas, desnudos, curas y cópulas
(Dibujo y obra sobre papel)
10 de diciembre – 23 de enero
Damas, desnudos, curas y cópulas
(Dibujo y obra sobre papel)
10 de diciembre – 23 de enero
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fishnets! In Your Honor....
Bristly Love
Two Bristlecone Pines, over 4,000 years old.
The oldest living plants, found in the White Mountains of California.
Sport or Art
To create is divine,
to reproduce human
--Man Ray
to reproduce human
--Man Ray
Researchers have found that
good looking students get higher grades
from their teachers than students with an ordinary appearance.
Furthermore, attractive patients receive more personalized care from their doctors.
Studies have even shown that handsome criminals receive lighter sentences than less attractive convicts. How much money a person earns may also be influenced by physical beauty. One study found that people low in physical attractiveness earn 5 to 10 percent less than ordinary looking people, who in turn earn 3 to 8 percent less than those who are considered good looking.
Inner beauty
is a concept used to describe the positive aspects of someone that are not physically observable.
While most species use physical traits and pheromones
to attract mates,
to attract mates,
some humans claim to rely on the inner beauty of their choices.
Qualities including kindness, sensitivity,
tenderness or compassion, creativity and intelligence
have been said to be desirable since antiquity.
