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7La Pieta ~ Michelangelo
ABOUT THE ARTIST :
The work of Christian Tagliavini can be experienced in many ways. Its duality of expressive artistry & meticulously controlled portraits, display a beautifully curated world of sitters posed within the handcrafted clothes made by the artist himself. Set against the backdrop of art history, referencing movements such as the Renaissance & Cubism, he wields his lens after the long complex process of designing, building & making to create his mise en scène.
Taking 13 months to complete,1503 is largely inspired by the masters of the Renaissance, notably Agnolo di Cosimo (usually known as ‘Il Bronzino’) who was born in the same year as the title. Using cardboard & paper in place of material allows Tagliavini to design each item from the patterning to the final construction of form completely. In his series Dame Di Cartone (literal translation: ‘Cardboard Ladies’) several influences from art history & other eras are again present resulting in striking imagery.
From beginning to completion Tagliavini’s work is a labour of love. He admits that he enjoys the process as much as the resulting photograph, constructing an aesthetic from scratch he feels is incredibly satisfying from a creative & philosophical point of view. With as much done in situ as possible, including the illusory lengthening of the neck Tagliavini reduces the amount of postproduction needed thus retaining the immediacy of the image beautifully.
Tagliavini is fully aware of the irony he portrays & playfully indicates the impermanence of fashion throughout the ages.
12Movement: Renaissance (High Italian, “Cinquecento”)
Theme: Portrait
Technique: Oil on wood
Museum: Galleria Borghese
Location: Rome, Italy
39Eddard Stark submitted by eldoniloco
Incredible :’)
In his second year of neuroscience grad school, Greg Dunn was moonlighting with a different kind of experiment: blowing ink across pieces of paper. The neuron-like pattern it formed was instantly recognizable to him as a neuroscientist. “Ink spreads because it wants to go in the direction of less resistance, and that’s probably also the case of when branches grow or neurons grow,” he says. “The reason the technique works really well is because it’s directly related to how neurons are actually behaving.”
Dunn calls this the “fractal solution to the universe,” which he sees as the “fundamental beauty of nature.” He’s fascinated that this branching pattern holds true across orders of magnitude, whether that’s nanometers for neurons, centimeters for ink, or meters for a tree branch.
Since graduating with his PhD last fall, Dunn has continued to spend his days with neurons—big, golden ones ten thousand times the size of neurons in your brain. The former University of Pennsylvania grad student now creates paintings of neurons for a living.
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2300melhor tua paisagem,
devastação e calma.
óleo sobre tela.
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23Fra Filippo Lippi - Madonna delle Roccie
2Day 219:: 365 Pictures in 365 Days of 365 Moments:: “Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!”-William Butler Yeats:: At the Renaissance faire yesterday these mystical actors were my most favorite. I loved how they were Now i heard they were faerie and I heard they were sprite… so I am not sure what to call them exactly.
