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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, originally uploaded by b2tse.

at MOMA New York

Greifswald Einladung L.Feininger Ausstellung (1), originally uploaded by apropos….

A little teaser outside the museum.

s6001045.jpg, originally uploaded by aenertia.

Blog action day against poverty.

Alfred Sisley, originally uploaded by alwaysfine.

Alfred Sisley – Meadow (1875, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.)

Gustav Klimt: Two Girls With An Oleander, originally uploaded by freeparking.

Gustav Klimt. Oil painting. 1892. 55×128 inches.

Whee! Sea Creatures!, originally uploaded by paintandink (radiogirl).

For those that were in awe when seeing this post: I didn’t really mean this post but promise I will keep at least some quality standards in the future.

From Stefan Sagmeister, an inspiring designer. View a video on designs that made him happy, and him explaining some of his life lessons.

Unable to complete their game of chess because they cannot move their arms from within their sleeveless robes, Death and his adversary slouch dejectedly near a mountain precipice. The striking juxtaposition of bright diagonal blue sky and somber thematic content accentuates the piece’s eccentric mix of poignancy and Dada. By wrapping the figures in hooded robes, the artist neatly avoided the challenges of depicting the human form.

The anonymous painter of this work firmly shut the door on all normative painterly decisions about composition, color, texture, symbolism, metaphor and most other preoccupations that attend the conventional modernist role of the artist as the privileged purveyor of an intuitive creativity shepherded by a genius recourse to tact and taste.

From the competition for writing an inspired title and analysis for an awful painting from the Museum of Bad Art. Here’s the painting.

Würsa (18 000 Km from earth), originally uploaded by shadycam.

Sculpture by Daniel Firman. It shows an elephant 18 000 km from earths gravity.