Tuesday, August 14, 2007

My Body Lies Under The Scalpel: Part Three




Anatomical Teaching Model of a Pregnant Woman (Stephan Zick, 1639-1715)

Monday, August 13, 2007

My Body Lies Under The Scalpel: Part Two




Rembrandt - The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp, 1632

Sunday, August 12, 2007

My Body Lies Under The Scalpel: Part One




Gerard David - König Kambyses und der Richter Sisamnes, 1498

Saturday, August 11, 2007

The Boy Whose Name Was Stolen By Art




Hippolyte Flandrin - Young Male Nude, 1855


'Mute icons are the only kind of beauty we find acceptable today.'

Mark Rothko

Friday, August 10, 2007

I Get Knocked Down, But I Get Up Again




Frank Miller - Sin City


'Only after disaster can we be resurrected.'

Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt), Fight Club, 1999 (d. David Fincher)

Thursday, August 09, 2007

Careful, He Can't Hear You




Head Of Christ - 15th-16th C (Netherlands, North Brabant)


'I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.'

Orson Welles

Wednesday, August 08, 2007

And Yet So Far Away




Henri Julien Félix Rousseau - The Eiffel Tower, 1898


'When good Americans die they go to Paris.'

Oscar Wilde

Tuesday, August 07, 2007

She Comes In Colours: Part Seven




John Currin - Rotterdam, 2006

Monday, August 06, 2007

She Comes In Colours: Part Six




Vanessa Beecroft - VB55 (7 April 2005, Neuen Nationalgalerie)

Sunday, August 05, 2007

She Comes In Colours: Part Five




Cindy Wright - Nipple, 2003

Saturday, August 04, 2007

She Comes In Colours: Part Four




Sarah Lucas - Two Fried Eggs and a Kebab, 1992

Friday, August 03, 2007

She Comes In Colours: Part Three




Lucian Freud - Naked Girl, 1968

Thursday, August 02, 2007

She Comes In Colours: Part Two




Egon Schiele - Nude, 1910

Wednesday, August 01, 2007

She Comes In Colours: Part One




François Boucher - Marie-Louise O'Murphy, c. 1752

Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Tales Of Horological Madness




Clock Face (Alice in Wonderland)


'The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.'

Albert Einstein

Monday, July 30, 2007

Games Of Truth And Chance




Blogopoly Board


'I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.'

Albert Einstein

Sunday, July 29, 2007

Ask Questions First




Piet Mondrian - Tableau No. IV; Lozenge Composition with Red, Gray, Blue, Yellow, and Black, c. 1924/1925


'We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.'

Albert Einstein

Saturday, July 28, 2007

Shoot Later




Jasper Johns - Green Target, 1955


'If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.'

Albert Einstein

Friday, July 27, 2007

When The Wheel Was Square




Kasimir Malevich - Red Square, 1915


'If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.'

Albert Einstein

Thursday, July 26, 2007

There's Nothing Simple About Simplicity




Kalachakra Sand Mandala


'Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.'

Albert Einstein