I quite enjoyed this painting by Alfred Eaker.
Christ accepts His cross © 2019, Alfred Eaker
via STATIONS OF THE CROSS 8: Christ accepts His cross — ALFRED EAKER
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[Art] Happy 164th Birthday John Singer Sargent — Waldina
Today is the 164th birthday of the artist John Singer Sargent. The renewed interest in his works could be attributed to the huge popularity of Downton Abbey and it’s highlighting and romanticizing of the Edwardian era, but his works can also hold their own. They depict Edwardian subjects, but in a bit more of a […]
[Art] The Magpie on the Gallows — Pieter Bruegel the Elder — Biblioklept
The Magpie on the Gallows, 1568 by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1525-1569)
via The Magpie on the Gallows — Pieter Bruegel the Elder — Biblioklept
[Art] Remedios Varo At Work
Remedios Varo was the queen of Spanish surrealist painters. She is depicted in her studio in the year 1957. The photographer was Duncan Mitchell.
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[Art] Sister Wendy Beckett, RIP
Whether it was discussing Caravaggio or nudes in paintings, Sister Wendy always did so with authority and a good laugh. She was a jovial presence in my younger days, when PBS really offered wonderful educational programming.
May the good Sister rest in the Bosom of Abraham now, and I, along with many others, thank her for proving that one could be devout and still have not only no fear, but a passionate love for art and culture.
PBS offers a short biography of her life here.
[Music] Various Artists – Decay, Death and Darkness – Aural Visions Of Beksiński’s Art
Zdzisław Beksiński was a Polish multimedia artist whose utopian realist works stood in stark contrast to his rather jovial personal demeanor. He may have been an artists whose work could scare the hell out of you, but he was also quite a decent man who had a fondness for classical music, as well as some rock (his son, Tomasz, was a noted DJ who committed suicide in 1999).
Once again, the brilliant folks at Eighth Tower Records, a subgroup of Unexplained Sounds, have released a compilation whose subject inspired some of the most brutally dark ambient music artists active to come up with some bleak aural monstrosities.
[Music] David J. & René Halkett – David J. & René Halkett (20th Anniversary Edition)
Bauhaus bassist David J collaborated with an original member of the Bauhaus movement, painter and poet René Halkett, for this rather interesting collaboration.
[Music] Letha Rodman Melchior – Edymion/MWCIE
There’s little worse, from a musical standpoint, than discovering an artist whose work gleams brightly after she has left this mortal coil, and from cancer, that cruel killer. Letha Rodman Melchior was a painter of some renown as well as a composer of fine experimental music. She hailed from Durham, North Carolina, and recorded for Siltbreeze Records, with whom she released two absolutely stunning albums: Handbook For Mortals from 2013, and Shimmering Ghosts, released posthumously in 2015.
[Music/Art] Dada and Cabaret Voltaire
Dada was the radical movement of art which would launch all kinds of future artistic madness, such as surrealism. The Cabaret Voltaire, based in Zürich, Switzerland, was the place where this action was crystallized.
[Art] Chris Veeneman – Il ne fait jamais nuit…
Chris Veeneman is one of my favorite contemporary artists. This particular work is represented by Saatchi Art Gallery.
A Miscellany Of Tasteful Music 