Fantastic fun art project, with practical results.

ilikeartalot:

Designers in Sweden transform stairs into giant piano to get pedestrians to stop using the escalator so much.

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Outstanding ‘Frankenstein’ painted in 2003 by Drew Struzan.

Outstanding ‘Frankenstein’ painted in 2003 by Drew Struzan.

Fabulous.
beckycloonan:

DRINK THE BLOOD OF THE DRAGON, SPEAK THE LANGUAGE OF BIRDS: a new print by me and the wicked Mike Moses!

Fabulous.

beckycloonan:

DRINK THE BLOOD OF THE DRAGON, SPEAK THE LANGUAGE OF BIRDS: a new print by me and the wicked Mike Moses!

This is Shirley Temple, The Youngest, Most Sacred Monster of the Cinema in Her Time by Salvador Dalí, created in 1939.
It has all of Dalí’s landmark surrealist touches, along with offering a critique of America’s obsession with Shirley Temple at the time as well as commenting on the metamorphising effect of fame upon a young girl.
The trompe-l’œil label at the bottom reads: “Shirley! at last in Technicolor.”
I love surreal art’s ability to highlight the unreality of our lives.

This is Shirley Temple, The Youngest, Most Sacred Monster of the Cinema in Her Time by Salvador Dalí, created in 1939.

It has all of Dalí’s landmark surrealist touches, along with offering a critique of America’s obsession with Shirley Temple at the time as well as commenting on the metamorphising effect of fame upon a young girl.

The trompe-l’œil label at the bottom reads: “Shirley! at last in Technicolor.”

I love surreal art’s ability to highlight the unreality of our lives.

Beautiful, languid and evocative.
gaksdesigns:

Drowning in the Beat by Yasmine Putri

Beautiful, languid and evocative.

gaksdesigns:

Drowning in the Beat by Yasmine Putri

This image is by Ernest Chiriaka, an American artist who used the pseduonym Darcy, and was famous for his paintings of alluring, siren-like women for novel covers in the 1950s and 1960s. 
This one was used for a novel called Yesterday’s Virgin by John Fulough.
She is one sexy dame.

This image is by Ernest Chiriaka, an American artist who used the pseduonym Darcy, and was famous for his paintings of alluring, siren-like women for novel covers in the 1950s and 1960s. 

This one was used for a novel called Yesterday’s Virgin by John Fulough.

She is one sexy dame.

This is an illustration by Irish artist Harry Clarke (1889- 1931) to accompany the Edgar Allen Poe short story ‘Morella’.
I read a reprint of Poe’s Tales of Mystery and Imagination with the Clarke illustrations as a child. I never forgot the images.

This is an illustration by Irish artist Harry Clarke (1889- 1931) to accompany the Edgar Allen Poe short story ‘Morella’.

I read a reprint of Poe’s Tales of Mystery and Imagination with the Clarke illustrations as a child. I never forgot the images.