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Venice (via Pilar Azaña)

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 07:17:44 -0600

cjw333: The Most Beautiful Subway Stations in the...

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 07:06:24 -0600

The Most Beautiful Subway Stations in the World:

Design Boom has a huge gallery of the most beautiful works of subway station and tunnel architecture across the world. Pictured above is the Solna Centrum metro station in Stockholm, which opened in 1975. Shades of red dominate the artwork of the station, which depicts the social concerns of 1970s Sweden.

Link via Fast Company | Photo: flickr user Erwyn van der Meer, used under Creative Commons license

jacony: Inside jokes (via JenniPenni)

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 06:51:47 -0600

jacony:

Inside jokes (via JenniPenni)

voristrip: guavaberry: Diego Rivera

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 06:48:41 -0600

voristrip:

guavaberry:

Diego Rivera

bigfun: Diego Rivera

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 06:48:04 -0600

bigfun:

Diego Rivera

realtime24: pootee: Lifelounge.com - Daily Goodness - Salvador...

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 06:46:30 -0600

realtime24:

pootee:

Lifelounge.com - Daily Goodness - Salvador Dali was AMAZING

xebec: crashinglybeautiful: Salvador Dali and Gala Dali (1936)...

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 06:45:54 -0600

xebec:

crashinglybeautiful:

Salvador Dali and Gala Dali (1936) (from All Things Amazing)

surrealism: Sunday Dalí: Hermes

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 06:45:19 -0600

surrealism:

Sunday Dalí: Hermes

twink: Vintage Photographs - Salvador Dali and his wife, Gala

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 06:43:50 -0600

twink:

Vintage Photographs - Salvador Dali and his wife, Gala

dtybywl: ll1.jpg (image)

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 06:43:20 -0600

dtybywl:

ll1.jpg (image)

dtybywl: Thomas Robertello Gallery - Works - Adam Ekberg -...

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 06:42:16 -0600

dtybywl:

Thomas Robertello Gallery - Works - Adam Ekberg - Untitled

metalshell: Frida Kahlo

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 06:41:20 -0600

metalshell:

Frida Kahlo

suicideblonde: Frida Kahlo

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 06:39:59 -0600

suicideblonde:

Frida Kahlo

suicideblonde: mudwerks:billyjane: Gorgeous as always: Frida...

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 06:39:09 -0600

suicideblonde:

mudwerks:billyjane:

Gorgeous as always:

Frida by Fritz Henley 1936

via Chickeyonthego

lavenderlines: bowfolk:thegirlskeepcomingtothecanyon: Frida...

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 06:38:36 -0600

lavenderlines:

bowfolk:thegirlskeepcomingtothecanyon:

Frida Kahlo y Diego Rivera

suicideblonde: candy-injection:bowfolk: Frida Kahlo - A...

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 06:37:56 -0600

suicideblonde:

candy-injection:bowfolk:

Frida Kahlo - A Coluna Partida (via janamistica)

i12bent: Diego the Revolutionary (w. Frida)

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 06:37:14 -0600

i12bent:

Diego the Revolutionary (w. Frida)

i12bent: Diego Rivera: Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in Alameda...

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 06:36:35 -0600

i12bent:

Diego Rivera: Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in Alameda Park (detail)

“This fifty foot fresco takes the viewer on a Sunday walk through Alameda Park, Mexico City’s first city park that was built on the grounds of an ancient Aztec marketplace. The large mural represents three principal eras of Mexican History: The Conquest, The Porfiriato Dictatorship, and The Revolution of 1910. In chronological order starting from left to right we meet numerous prominent figures from Mexican history. In the center of the mural is Diego Rivera at the age of ten being led by the hand by the Dame Catrina (“La Calavera Catrina”), a skeleton figure parodying vanity created by the popular Mexican engraver Jose Guadalupe Posada. The well-dressed gentleman in a black suit and derby hat is Posada, who stands on the right of Dame Catrina and gallantly offers her his arm. Posada was highly respected by Rivera, who claimed him as one his artistic luminaries and teachers. Posada’s narrative style was an extremely influential model for Rivera’s mural painting. Calavera Catrina, a symbol of the urban bourgeoisie at the turn of the nineteenth century must be taken here as an allusion to the Aztec Earth Mother Coatlicue, who is frequently represented with a skull. Coatlicue wears the plumed serpent, symbolic of her son Quertzalcoatl, around her neck as a boa. Her belt-buckle displays the Aztec astrological sign of Ollin, symbolizing perpetual motion. The adjacent figure is Frida Kahlo in a traditional Mexican dress holding in her left hand the Yin-Yang symbol of duality taken from Chinese philosophy, which also represents the duality from pre-Columbian mythology. Kahlo’s other hand rest maternally on the shoulder of the young Diego, who sets out on his walk through life and through the world under her protection.” (Source)

exclamationmark: Paris Nude (1896) by Edvard Munch.

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 06:35:59 -0600

exclamationmark:

Paris Nude (1896) by Edvard Munch.

atomische: The Colors of IC 1795 : APOD: 2009 December 10

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 06:34:43 -0600

atomische:

The Colors of IC 1795 : APOD: 2009 December 10