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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

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

Notes to a friend; silently listening

view more Collections by William Schaff

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)

Brendan Danielsson: My work isn’t conceptual, personal, spiritual or political. And there’s no secret underlying message or point I’m trying to get across. I’m not trying to say much with it….at all. I simply create art that I would like to see if I were not the one making it. The process, as I develop a piece, is little more than a stream of consciousness without much forethought to what the end result will be. But I do try to incorporate a few elements of conflict to create a narrative for interest. These usually deal with man vs. beast, beauty vs. ugly, sensuality vs. violence, etc. Believe it or not, I don’t enjoy much of the actual process of creating art. It’s a contant struggle for me and I’m my harshest critic, but the end result is what keeps me going. When I create something that I actually like, I’m a happy man. (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

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)

a contribution for Bye Bye Blackbird on 8oinks by Leo Dakar

我是外星人第無��號 : my friend said that “they were so odd!!”

Jenism - Somewhere in south america, Mazel tov, Festivus, Pomp, unexpected grid. Illustrations by Jennifer Crouch

little worries i like to draw things.

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.

Illustrations and paintings by Aleksandra Waliszewska. Check out her Blog.

see also:
Inwazja/Worms/Atak by Aleksandra Waliszewska

illustration and animation by ( y )

discovered on the beautiful sometimes for one gesture blogspot

OMFG! Check the Highlights from October

get inspired! Mashup your favourite posts, use as many as you like and upload your collage / tag: mashup

this one’s called ‘Stages’ - Dive in High Resolution

Previous 8oinks Reviews: September / August / July / June / May

Albert Foolmoon’s Website and Flickr

Edward Hyde on Flickr _ CIREDz

Michelle Jane Lee’s art is minimalist in form yet muscular in content. There is a complexity, density . . .to put it simply, there is a lot of heart in her often times sparse drawings and paintings. Like a kid in the sandbox with limitless imagination, she builds, telling us stories with images because language fails here, showing us a myriad of ways to be and belong in the world.

A selfportrait with all our friends

Passive aggressive love notes and other unmentionable things

Eric Beltz (1975) The exquisitely rendered graphite drawings are sophisticated responses to American folkways and myths. As darkly funny as they are disarmingly earnest, the graphic works are both exhortations and critiques of our nation’s inborn exceptionalism and romanticism. The preservationists’ dualistic attitude (i.e., Humanity vs. Nature) provides only simple answers to our complex questions. By contrast, Beltz’s allegorical drawings shirk simplistic moralizing in favor of contradiction, ambivalence and multiplicity. His scenes speak to an active communion with Nature, albeit one that includes suffering, death and a melancholy nod to the essential absurdity of existence.

Appropriately, Beltz’s drawings incorporate Biblical texts and his subjects are recognizable as America’s founding fathers and God-fearing, anonymous farmers. But Beltz draws from a peculiarly American well, the proverbial melting pot. Each drawing is suffused with currents of Eastern philosophy and shamanism. His farmers and historical figures are also mystics.

Beltz’s meticulously rendered works don’t offer any answers, but neither do they shrug off the dilemma. With a richly ironic sensibility and a sensitivity to the complexities of our national character and (natural) history, Beltz embraces our clusterfuck approach even as he skewers it. “The Good Land” is sublimely ambivalent. (via myartspace)

.Radical.! i make things.

Laurie Lipton was born in New York and began drawing at the age of four. She was the first person to graduate from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pennsylvania with a Fine Arts Degree in Drawing (with honours). She has lived in Holland, Belgium, Germany and France and has made her home in London since 1986.

Her work has been exhibited extensively throughout Europe and the USA. Lipton was inspired by the religious paintings of the Flemish School. She tried to teach herself how to paint in the style of the 17th century Dutch Masters and failed. When traveling around Europe as a student, she began developing her very own peculiar drawing technique building up tone with thousands of fine cross-hatching lines like an egg tempera painting. “It’s an insane way to draw”, she says, “but the resulting detail and luminosity is worth the amount of effort”.

This week is the release week of my last record, “eargear” on the Spanish portuguese label 30porumalinha, with my friends scott, Paul Frick and Frivolous. 4 tracks of sexy, sensitive, and deep dance music.

And I really love the artwork made by a talented spanish illustrator living in Berlin, Danae Diaz, who has a personal and original sense of surrealism.

Her website: DANAE DIAZ

Jim Kaufmann sent me this beautiful piece called Thought process by mail, all the way from Iowa! i found it in my mailbox exactly the way it is displayed here. i’m sure you’ve saved the day of my postman too thank you very much!!