Seeker of Truth, Beauty and Wisdom

Kiki Smith, Coming Forth, 2008.

For example, there’s a picture here called Coming Forth (2008) and despite knowing your work extremely well, I really wonder what’s going on in it. A young, sexy woman seems to be emerging out of the body of an older woman …

I hadn’t thought about her being sexy! She’s just supposed to be a young woman, or a young girl, about eighteen years old. I didn’t really sexualize her. That must be in your mind! I meant this as a kind of birth image. People might take it some other way, but in my mind it’s a birth image: the younger coming out of the older.

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inherwar:

Kiki Smith

artspotting:

Herbert Pfostl: man muss die toten um verzeihung bitten

the59thstreetbridge:

Completely infatuated with the textile and embroidery work of Rosemary Milner.

sugarmeows:

Untitled (ink and watercolor, c.1957) – Andy Warhol (1928–87)

Sylvette David and Picasso

Portrait of Sylvette David, 1954

Sylvette David, 1954

Portrait of Sylvette David, 1954

artistandstudio:

While living on the southern coast of France in early 1954, Picasso encountered 19-year-old Sylvette David. Her stunning features fascinated Picasso so much that over the course of the next three months, he created over forty paintings, drawings and sculptures of her in a range of styles. Her long, fair hair, tied back in a ‘horse’s tail’ was a dominant feature in many of the works. And this provided the inspiration behind a 1950s ponytail craze. Brigitte Bardot adopted the same hairstyle, apparently after seeing the coverage of David in Paris Match and elsewhere.

David (French, b. 1934) is now herself and artist. src1

thingswoolike:

Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) - 1940s Portrait of a Woman (by RasMarley)

thingswoolike:

Chagall, Marc (1887-1985) - 1952 Pittore con Paletta (by RasMarley)

bildwerk:

MAX BECKMANN

Frau mit Mandoline in Gelb und Rot, 1950
Öl auf Leinwand, 92 x 140 cm
Pinakothek der Moderne, Sammlung Moderne Kunst

gaiasghost:

Portrait of a Woman in White

Retrato de una Mujer de Blanco

artist Frida Kahlo

thesavagesgallery:

Friedensreich Hundertwasser (1928-2000)

The Tower of Babel Pierces the Sun, 1959.

freakyfauna:

Nudes in Reverie (1920) by Pablo Picasso.

Found here.

paolotedeschi73:

Paolo Tedeschi

Ritratto di Alejandro Jodorowsky - Inchiostro su carta Arches ruvida, 2012
Portrait of Alejandro Jodorowsky - Ink on rough Arches paper, 2012