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Félicien Rops (7 July 1833 - 23 August 1898) was a Belgian artist, and printmaker in etching and aquatint.

I know very well that I would be better off living normally, better off keeping to the straight and narrow, not to be (at the age of 30 years) as futile as Cherubino di amore for Beaumarchais (…). I know that I do not have enough respect for the law, that I am as scatterbrained as a mayfly, and as unworried as a monk, I know that I do not contribute to the good of the State but that which you do not suspect and that which will cause all serious people to faint, right up until the fifth male generation, is that I am happy and almost proud of being like this and not otherwise…. I hope that this surpasses the boundaries of decent insanity… (read more)

The Four Stages of Cruelty is a series of four printed engravings published by English artist William Hogarth in 1751. Each print depicts a different stage in the life of the fictional Tom Nero. (Read More)

First stage of cruelty (Plate I)

Second stage of cruelty (Plate II)

Cruelty in perfection (Plate III)

The reward of cruelty (Plate IV)

Find more etchings by  William Hogarth on gutenberg.org

Let him laugh now, who never laugh’d before;
And he who always laugh’d, laugh now the more.

From the Something Else Yearbook 1974 (via)

The Darker Side of Light: Arts of Privacy, 1850–1900 at the Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, February 11 – June 13, 2010

The Darker Side of Light reveals the private worlds of late nineteenth-century Europe through prints and other works meant for quiet contemplation. The exhibition presents over one hundred prints, drawings, illustrated books, and small sculptures by artists such as Félix Bracquemond, James Ensor, Max Klinger, Käthe Kollwitz, James McNeill Whistler, Charles Meryon, and Anders Zorn, among others. The Darker Side of Light evokes shadowed interiors and private introspections to tell a far less familiar story of late nineteenth-century art. (read more)

Download selected images in High Resolution at smartmuseum.edu

Max Klinger, Abduction, 1881

Albert Besnard, Morphine Addicts, 1887

Eugène Carrière, Sleep, 1897

Käthe Kollwitz, Woman with a Dead Child, 1903

Félix Bracquemond, The Moles, 1854

Odilon Redon, This Is the Devil from Temptation of Saint Anthony, 1888

Aubrey Vincent Beardsley 1872 – 1898, was an English illustrator and author. His drawings are characterized by an erotic nature, and his most erotic illustrations are those found in the Lysistrata; Beardsley drew these for a privately printed edition.

Beardsley later converted to Catholicism, and would subsequently beg his publisher to destroy all copies of Lysistrata and bad drawings…by all that is holy all obscene drawings.

The Yellow Book, an illustrated quarterly 1894

The Yellow Book was the brain-child of Beardsley even down to its title. Novels by the French decadent writer were often issued in yellow wrappers; the most important of the novels was J.K. Huysmans’ A Rebours, 1883. Beardsley proposed a new illustrated quarterly dedicated to modern literature and art because many brilliant story painters and picture writers cannot get their best stuff accepted in the conventional magazines, either because they are not topical, or perhaps a little risquÇ. The Yellow Book published some of the best authors and artists of the Nineties, often causing scandals to the conservative public. (via)

Read all 13 volumes of the yellow book online or download via wikipedia

Eric White: The idea that there are things that exist beyond our perception is fascinating to me. It is something that I think about a lot, and it is not necessarily clear in most of my paintings, but I think it’s the foundation of pretty much all of it.

Read an interview with the artist on fecal face,
and have a look at Eric White’s Eclecticism: Virtue or Defect?

we make money not art wrote a great review about Manipulating Reality, at CCCS.

This exhibition explored the way photographic images and videos represent reality as much as they can construct and betray it. One of its section was dedicated entirely to the treatment of images in the context of war.

Artists Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin followed the British army in Afghanistan as embedded photo reporters in June 2008. (Read More)

What Broomberg and Chanarin seek to demonstrate with this paradoxical work of “anti-documentation” is that their images are equivalent in terms of truth content to the photographs of embedded reporters approved by military censorship. Their abstract painting of light bears witness to the reality of the conflict in the same almost paradoxical way as the work of the war photographers, which in any case does not present the truth. (Read More)

Qiu Zhijie is a Chinese contemporary artist and works with a diverse range of media including photography, video, calligraphy, painting, installation and performance, and combines writing and curatorial practice with his artistic explorations. (via)

For the first time, I used light to write the names of everybody related to me. In the following nights, I did the same thing. Writing always became more difficult later in the night, and also more evocative and sentimental, especially when I wrote the names of those who have died, who live at the other end of the world, or whom I might never meet again . (read more)

Daniel K Sparkes Illustrations, paintings and photographs (via)

engravings by Fredillo, 19th century (via)

also take a look at: Le Roman de Violette

First published in Bruxelles by Augustin Brancart in 1870 [c.1883] as “Le Roman de Violette”. A later edition was published, c.1883, probably by Kistemaeckers, with 6 engravings by Fredillo. The English translation was published, possibly by Mlle. Doucé, in 1891 as “The Romance of Violette”.

Shannon Keller: blood for everyone (via)

see also: Knitter by Shannon Keller

Ashley Reaks: it seemed a good idea when i started it…

see also: Reasons to Live, Rasons to Die by Ashley Reaks

Illustrations and paintings by Collin van der Sluijs more works on flickr

Sofia Ajram: relax, turn around and take my hand. (via)

Simon Schubert is a German artist and sculptor.
take a look at his Art With Folded Paper. (via)

Roger Ballen: My photographs comment on the complex word that we loosely term as reality. Reality is ultimatley impossible to define with words, perhaps images will provide some clarity. It is my belief that the most challenging photographs are those that create a tension between what we refer to as the real and the imaginative . My images symbolize the chaos around us and our inability to ultimately control our fate. In contrast to this world, my aesthetic is expressed in a very formalistic manner. (via)

Find Interviews to read or watch on Lensculture and Euroalter

史黛普．王 on flickr

see also: Lies between Lines 史黛普．王

Showchicken: Feathery.

(via EricOrchard)

Evening Stories by Barbarja

Evening Stories  is a project incorporating words and drawings
about finding one’s self inside oneself.

“I grab the most forward point of the body with my teeth. I hook the edge of sensation with a tooth and tear the delicate covering. Lava flows out of it, rushing silently bringing doom to a happily drowsy unknown town. With a cold finger I touch a ball of nerves and bend in half, simultaneously looking at plowed fields of supplications and entreaties. I sigh deeply.  Donned in human skin I lick the evidence of life off It with my tongue. The human skin puts the mind into a trance and paves the way to so far unavailable walls and floors: feet, hands, bellies, buttocks and counts the hairs around the bellybuttons. I stick a finger into my nose to keep the red paint inside. My finger reeks with life. It is cold. ”

Ink on rice paper illustrations by 25yr old, British born Chinese Artist Tim Lee. (via)

Love Must Die Young (Never Old Enough)

You were born with a light between your eyes, I was born to answer to your Sun

Why do I, Still water flowers

Andrea Babaganoush on flickr

New works by streetartist ARK. !
featuring parts of the project with Giannis Skourletis , participating in 2nd Athens Biennale, in How many Angels can Dance on the Head of a Pin?

see also: Sketchbook by ARK.

Dina Goldstein: ‘…happily ever after’ (via)

Pakayla Biehn’s most recent body of work concerns her congenital vision disability, called Strabismus. Her eyesight consists of mutually exclusive images trying, unsuccessfully, to bond into a cohesive impression.

First Solo Show:
January 2010, Every Single Where, Gallery 6, San Francisco (Read More)

also take a look at Pakayla Biehn’s photorealistic paintings

Mark Story: There have always been individuals who have lived into old age, but few have lived near the limits of the human lifespan. Currently, there are about 250,000 centenarians living in the world.
With so many people now living longer, a new demographic label has been created for those who have reached 110: supercentenarian. (read more)

Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people to know why I look this way. I’ve traveled a long way, and some of the roads weren’t paved.
— Will Rogers

The first ever zine published by It’s Nice That. The brainchild of designer Rob Matthews and Illustrator Tom Edwards, put simply – “Tom gave drawings to Rob and Rob tried to make them into photographs.” (read more) (via)

Made up of hundreds of cut-out color ads presented in fragmented, rapid succession, this animated short takes a critical look at consumerism in a material world. Seductive advertising is seen as the main motivating force in shaping the desires, the needs and, to a large degree, the lives of modern men and women.

Ceci est un message enregistre by Jean-Thomas Bédard, 1973,
10 min 10 s stopmotion - View Here

The source images of this fascinating video by experimental image/sound-maker Brian O’Reilly & Woody Vasulka come from a video synthesizer called the Rutt-Etra Scan Processor from the 1970s, while the sound comes from manipulations via custom software designed by O’Reilly himself and co-designer Chandrasekhar Ramakrishnan. The full work is of total approximate duration of 45 minutes, with sections of various lengths, textures, and dynamic qualities. (read more) (via)