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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)

Animation with Japanese news paper, 1991

(via @Mieko Suzuki)

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

dp picture (via cubeinthedesert)

robots vs armour

see also: New Friends by David Shrigley

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)

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

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)

Animated short film, traditional hand drawn, directed by Nico Di Mattia 2009 (via)

Notes to a friend; silently listening

view more Collections by William Schaff

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

View more works by Penny Davenport. Also take a look at the Library of the Evil Orchid.

Showchicken: Feathery.

(via EricOrchard)

Amanda Nedham’s drawings are inspired by objects from natural history museums. Within her work she explores what she terms “culture baggage - the appropriation of the body for the purpose of expanding narrative potential.” (via)

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

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

Urszula Kluz-Knopek, Poland - a contribution for Bye Bye Blackbird on 8oinks!

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)

The visual style of Travis Louie’s work is strongly influenced by the lighting and atmosphere of German Expressionist and Film Noir motion pictures from the Silent Era to the late 1950’s. Travis’ paintings come from the tiny little drawings and many writings in his journals. Using inventive techniques of painting with acrylic washes and simple textures on smooth boards, he’s created portraits from an alternate universe that seemingly may or may not have existed.

Travis Louie is currently exhibiting new works at the Shooting Gallery.
More news on travislouie.blogspot and find beautiful high resolution downloads on travislouiegalleryexhibits.blogspot

shirin: i started a new series entitled empty page. they are sketches made with light. the collection will grow over time.

view album

empty page on flickr

Black and white stop motion animation shot on 16mm film.

Since the seventies, the elegant and memorable photographs of Paris-based artist Sarah Moon (*1941, France) are an inherent part of the international fashion world. Scarcely anybody will be able to elude the particular magic of her works. There is a borderland between fiction and truth which seems to be a permanent feature of Sarah Moons works. Poetic as they may be, they always long to reveal a particular form of reality: the fugitiveness of the moment, the boundary between growth and decay, the magic of a single second. (via)

“Very often I say to myself: I would like to make a photo where nothing happens. But in order to eliminate, there has to be something to begin with. For nothing to happen, something has to happen first.” (read an interview with the artist)

Hear from Sarah Moon personally, what goes through her mind, while taking a photograph - in this 10min video

Pen on tracing paper by Wonil

The art of SSIN.
Take a look at the artists website and discover how detailed these layered works are.