It was great to finally discover whose painting i've been using as an avatar/profile picture all this time (pictured above: Not To Be Reproduced). It is René Magritte, here are some other of his works that I've also seen before and liked but never knew who it was...
I love the work of surrealists. Their images stir something inside of me more than any other art genre or artist i've come across.
Here is a famous painting by Hans Holbein; a German Rennaissance painter and it's called The Ambassadors. The first time I saw this was on a TV program like the Culture Show where the image had been blown up onto a wall somewhere in London and the presenter was talking about it very fondly describing the significance of every object. Then talked in great depth about the skull at the bottom that you can only see by positioning yourself up against the wall looking down at it. I think this could be an early example of surrealist work... perhaps Ernst and Dali et al liked this painting too?
This is an image by John Heartfield; a German Photomantage artist and it's called The Spirit of Geneva
And finally M.C. Escher. Another artists whose name I didn't know but was already very familier with his work. He used mathematics, polyhedras and geometric distortions (amongst others) to make the impossible realities look real. in Eschers world everything is relative.
Franz Ferdinand took the cover of their second album:
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This is a poster by Alexander Rodchenko where he has used the face of Lilya Brik. Read this
That's enough typey-clicky-cutty-pastey for today!
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