To create is divine, to reproduce is human.

17th Oct 2012

The Tower of Blue Horses by Franz Marc, 1913

15th Oct 2012 | 10 notes

Destinies of the Animals by Franz Marc, 1913

14th Oct 2012 | 557 notes

Ophelia’s Skull: Part of the ‘Re-code Shakespeare’ project by Owen Lee

The work is part of a project that aims at re-coding Shakespeare in the 21st century’s vision. The skull represents a well-known tragic character, Ophelia in Hamlet, who is many times used as a symbol of tragic death in a variety of art works in art history. The lyrical, unique literary style has been borrowed to describe the scene by artists. Most of the pieces are mainly focused upon depicting the scene that Queen Gertrude tells people the death from drowning of Ophelia. however, it is deemed that Shakespeare himself is more concentrated upon the dialectic between life and death.The project interactively delivers synesthetic images to audiences with visuals, sounds, textures, scripts and materials. The skull is a straightforward object to symbolise death, simultaneously,the surface is decorated with graceful sentences from the scene of Ophelia’s death in another aspect of the beauty of death.

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12th Oct 2012 | 121 notes

Rene Magritte in Bowler Hat by Duane Michals, 1965

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11th Sep 2012 | 7 notes

Woman with her Throat Cut by Alberto Giacometti, 1932

$The Broken Column by Frida Kahlo, 1944 In 1925, when Frida was 18, the bus she was riding was rammed by an out-of-control trolley, she sustained multiple injuries including being impaled by an iron rod, several broken vertebrae, a broken collarbone, two broken ribs, a shattered pelvis, eleven fractures in her right leg, and her right foot was crushed. The rod pierced her entire body, exiting through her vagina, causing Frida to later say that the accident took her virginity. She spent a month in the hospital, immobilized in plaster casts and traction, followed by several months in bed at home. To pass the time Frida began painting for the first time. [i]$

The Broken Column by Frida Kahlo, 1944

In 1925, when Frida was 18, the bus she was riding was rammed by an out-of-control trolley, she sustained multiple injuries including being impaled by an iron rod, several broken vertebrae, a broken collarbone, two broken ribs, a shattered pelvis, eleven fractures in her right leg, and her right foot was crushed. The rod pierced her entire body, exiting through her vagina, causing Frida to later say that the accident took her virginity. She spent a month in the hospital, immobilized in plaster casts and traction, followed by several months in bed at home. To pass the time Frida began painting for the first time. [i]

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