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Posted on January 10, 2011 by ubu507

1967 Heather Ryan

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Frau in Landschaft

Posted on January 9, 2011 by ubu507

(Woman in Landscape)
Date: 1916
Artist: Georg Schrimpf
German, 1889-1938
North Carolina Museum of Art

 

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out of the question 3

Posted on January 8, 2011 by ubu507

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Inca Princess (Gran Ñusta Mama Occollo)

Posted on January 7, 2011 by ubu507

about 1800, Cuzco, Peru.

This painting is a posthumous portrait of an ancestor, undoubtedly commissioned by her descendants in the late colonial period to assert their claims to Inca nobility.

The inscription claims that she was the first Christian Inca woman in the Andes and that when a man tried to violate her vow of chastity, she fought and beheaded him. In doing so, she recreated a feat credited to Mama Occllo, the first queen of the Inca dynasty, who conquered Cuzco by decapitating an enemy.

The Denver Art Museum

 

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From The Institute of Advance Thinking

Posted on January 6, 2011 by ubu507

Cleveland, Ohio

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(Heather) Please Come Find Me

Posted on January 5, 2011 by ubu507

and help me get fucked up

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Woman in a Green Blouse

Posted on January 5, 2011 by ubu507


1913
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

German, 1880–1938

The St. Louis Art Museum

 

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Out of the Question

Posted on January 4, 2011 by ubu507

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Archie

Posted on January 3, 2011 by ubu507

Not to Mention: Trembling and the Sickness Unto Death

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New Year’s

Posted on January 2, 2011 by ubu507

from Passionate Journey by Frans Masereel

To describe what these two New Year’s comrades performed and set about down in the village in the course of this night — which public houses they visited, how many glasses they emptied, in what sorts of conversations they engaged one another — would be to consign things that are important and essential to the realm of the unimportant and insignificant. They spoke of such things as colleagues are wont to speak of, and they behaved the way people tend to on New Year’s Eve, in other words, they devoted themselves to the pursuit of a gradual but all the more pleasurable and purposeful inebriation.

— Robert Walser

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