Andy Warhol, 1986
The Last Supper
Andy Warhol, 1986
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Naughty or nice, Christmas is next…
Ted Thai ~ Shopping cart, 1998; Scrabble spelled out with game tiles, 2001; Sheriff Woody, character from Disney’s computer animated film “Toy Story.” July 1999; Mattel’s Nutcracker Sugarplum Princess Barbie doll, 2001; “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” Lego building set, 2001; Monopoly board game pieces, 2001; Clue game pieces, 2001; A Mattel Hot Wheels Fireball race car, 2001; A Lincoln Logs log cabin (construction set), 2001; Razor’s Scream Machine, a metallic version of the Big Wheel tricycle, 2002
Carnaval
Pablo Picasso, 1958
“The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most.” –John Ruskin
Charm
“There is a certain age when a woman must be beautiful to be loved, and then there comes a time when she must be loved to be beautiful.” –Françoise Sagan
Stroboscopic image
Gjon Mili ~ Little girl walking and smiling at camera, 1941
Man is a bubble
Karel Dujardin ~ Boy Blowing Soap Bubbles; Allegory on the Transitoriness and the Brevity of Life, 1663
“Homo bulla” means “Man is a bubble” a well-known saying in the 16th century.
“The lesson of this proverb is that there is nothing so fragile, so fleeting and so empty as the life of man. A bubble is that round swollen empty thing which we watch in the water as it grows and vanishes in a moment in time.” –from the Adagia of Erasmus
“The lesson of this proverb is that there is nothing so fragile, so fleeting and so empty as the life of man. A bubble is that round swollen empty thing which we watch in the water as it grows and vanishes in a moment in time.” –from the Adagia of Erasmus
l’oreiller enrubanné
Thomas Hoepke ~ Trabant, Berlin (Ost), 1974
Popeye Picasso
André Villers ~ Pablo Picasso, Cannes 1957
McQueen + Kitty Cat
William Claxton ~ Steve McQueen and his family cat Kitty Cat, 1963
tout ceci est magnifique 