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1950: Mirrors Are the Doors through which Death Comes and Goes

Posted on August 30, 2017 by corvusfugit

Jean Marais in Jean Cocteau’s Orpheus (1950)

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1913: Gallery

Posted on August 30, 2017 by corvusfugit

Fold-out letter from Alfred Joseph Frueh to his fiancée Giuliette Fanciulli, Jan. 10, 1913. Frueh was an American caricaturist, cartoonist and illustrator. (source)

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1966: Doctor Strange Meets Eternity

Posted on August 30, 2017 by corvusfugit

Steve Ditko: Strange Tales #146 (July, 1966) Eternity was created as the second sentient force supporting Creation. Before Eternity, there was a single universe, whose animating force was the primal cosmic being that would later call itself The First Firmament. … Continue reading →

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1940: The White Horse

Posted on August 30, 2017 by corvusfugit

Eric Ravilious: Train Landscape (1940) The background of this painting features the Westbury White Horse, a figure on the slope of Salisbury Plain in England. As the earliest documentation dates from 1742, the horse was likely created in the first … Continue reading →

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1862: Traveling Companions

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Augustus Leopold Egg: The Travelling Companions (1862) The city in the background of this painting is Menton, on the Côte d’Azur, which had become a popular destination for sufferers of tuberculosis following the 1861 publication of Dr. James Henry Bennet’s … Continue reading →

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2009: Do You Remember When?

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For their 2009 piece Do You Remember When?, the indigenous arts collective Postcommodity cut through the floor of the Arizona State University Art Museum, exposing the earth below. A recording of a Pee Posh social dance song played in the … Continue reading →

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1874: The Wreckers

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William Holbrook Beard: The Wreckers (1874)

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1489: Versions

Posted on August 30, 2017 by corvusfugit

      Leonardo da Vinci: Lady with an Ermine [Cecilia Galleran] (1489–1490) Awol Erizku: Lady with a Pitbull (2009) Hans Holbein: Portrait of a Lady with a Squirrel and a Starling [probably Anne Lovell] (c. 1526-28) Frida Khalo: Self-Portrait with … Continue reading →

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1891: Wolf

Posted on August 29, 2017 by corvusfugit

Ernest Thompson Seton: The Sleeping Wolf (1891)

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1891: After the Deluge

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George Frederic Watts: After the Deluge (The Forty-First Day) (1886–1891)

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