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.)
Wunderkammer: Frans Francken, Chamber of Art and Curiosities. 1636
Details from Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights, 1503-1504.
(via cavetocanvas)
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.
(Source: davidoreilly.com)
Anna Kristensen, Glowworm Grotto, 2008, Oil on board, 40 x 55cm
Anna Kristensen, Forest Pear, 2011, Oil and acrylic on linen, 112 x 86cm
Jamie Macchiusi, survival totem: communication, 2010. favourite parts: harmonica, center ‘aerial’ = flattened 20c piece, balanced on commemorative prayer spoon.