Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Black Roses (6 of 8)




Tim Burton - The Corpse Bride, 2006

Tuesday, December 25, 2007

Black Roses (5 of 8)




Mike and Doug Starn - Attracted to Light 1, 1999-2004

Monday, December 24, 2007

Black Roses (4 of 8)




Jamie Caliri - Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, 2004

Sunday, December 23, 2007

Black Roses (3 of 8)




Max Aguilera-Hellweg - Prosthetic Leg in Hallway, 2000

Saturday, December 22, 2007

Black Roses (2 of 8)




Joel Peter Witkin - Anna Akhmatova, 1998

Friday, December 21, 2007

Black Roses (1 of 8)




The Quay Brothers - Street of Crocodiles, 1986

Thursday, December 20, 2007

When Artists Flap Their Wings In A Gallery




The Little Artists - Damien Hirst's Butterfly Paintings




Damien Hirst - The Explosion - Exalted, 2006


'I am a deeply superficial person.'

Andy Warhol

Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Hotel Cornucopia




Joseph Cornell - Untitled (Hotel Eden), 1945


'Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived.'

Joseph Campbell

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

The Chamber Of Insights




Henry Fuseli - The Nightmare, 1781


'Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.'

Carl Jung

Monday, December 17, 2007

DIY Salvation




William Blake - Satan, Sin and Death, 1808


'If you meditate on your past sins long enough, you can get lost in your sins and not know what your virtues are. Why not meditate on the virtues? Foster the virtues and let the sins fall off.'

Joseph Campbell

Sunday, December 16, 2007

Dragons Without Dungeons




Raphael - Saint George Fighting the Dragon, c. 1504


'The demon that you can swallow gives you it’s power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.'

Joseph Campbell

Saturday, December 15, 2007

Who Was That Masked Human?




Mask - Olmec (Mexico), 9th - 6th C B.C.


'Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.'

Carl Jung

Friday, December 14, 2007

The Stuart Davis Quartet




Stuart Davis - Egg Beater No. 4, 1928




Stuart Davis - New York Waterfront, 1938




Stuart Davis - The Mellow Pad, 1945-51




Stuart Davis - Colonial Cubism, 1954


'The act of painting is not a duplication of experience but the extension of experience on the plane of formal invention.'

Stuart Davis

Thursday, December 13, 2007

The Ten Thousand Year Old Virgin (7)




William Hogarth - The Four Stages of Cruelty ("The Reward of Cruelty"), 1751

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

The Ten Thousand Year Old Virgin (6)




William Hogarth - The Four Stages of Cruelty ("Cruelty in Perfection"), 1751

Tuesday, December 11, 2007

The Ten Thousand Year Old Virgin (5)




William Hogarth - The Four Stages of Cruelty ("The Second Stage of Cruelty"), 1751

Monday, December 10, 2007

The Ten Thousand Year Old Virgin (4)




William Hogarth - The Four Stages of Cruelty ("The First Stage of Cruelty"), 1751

Sunday, December 09, 2007

The Ten Thousand Year Old Virgin (3)




William Hogarth - Beer Street, 1751

Saturday, December 08, 2007

The Ten Thousand Year Old Virgin (2)




William Hogarth - Gin Lane, 1751

Friday, December 07, 2007

The Ten Thousand Year Old Virgin (1)




William Hogarth - Marriage A-la-Mode: The Tête-à-Tête, 1735


'We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.'

Salvador Dalí