Anonymous, Visitors with flashlights at the 1938 Exposition International du Surréalisme, Paris 1938.

Album of photographs of the works purchased by the state entitled “Salon of 1864. Palais des Champs-Elysées. Tables ordered or purchased by the Department of Fine Arts.”, (an extensive series I found in the French online archives of something-or-other, accidentally, whilst googling something else. I cannot find them again.)

Marcel Duchamp, Boîte-en-valise, 1938-42.

Wunderkammer: Frans Francken, Chamber of Art and Curiosities. 1636

Paintings of paintings: Johann Zoffany, Tribuna of the Uffizi, 1172-1778

aabsurdia:

Details from Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights, 1503-1504.

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Internet vortex lead me to this last night. The future is here already, it’s just unevenly distributed/novelty theory not far off.

David O’Reilly, The External World, 2011.  

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cavetocanvas:

Sidney Nolan, Police Trooper, 1947

Anna Kristensen, Glowworm Grotto, 2008, Oil on board, 40 x 55cm

Anna Kristensen, Forest Pear, 2011, Oil and acrylic on linen, 112 x 86cm

jesuisperdu:

sasha kurmaz

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cerebrospinalien:

Recess, 2009 by Patrick Allen by Jen Bekman on Flickr.

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Jamie Macchiusi, survival totem: communication, 2010. favourite parts: harmonica, center ‘aerial’ = flattened 20c piece, balanced on commemorative prayer spoon.