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The Red Book (Sir John Lavery)

welovepaintings:

Thomas Kennington
Great Britain 1856-1916
Homeless 1890
oil on canvas
170.0 x 152.0 cm

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Homeless, 1890, is one of a series of works in which Kennington depicts the plight of women and children who were impoverished or destitute. Subjects such as these gained popularity during the 1870s and 1880s, partly as a result of the increasing influence of illustrated journals, which regularly commisssioned artists to provide images of ‘real’ life.

In Homeless, the square-brush technique used by Kennington in painting the wet pavement and the river, and his focus on subtle tonal variations rather than on colour - as in the soft grey light illuminating this scene - were among the characteristics adapted by British artists from French sources at the time.

CultureVictoria

caravaggista:

Caravaggio, Mary Magdalen in Ecstasy, 1606

The Mary Magdalene is a stark image of exile, of anguish, and guilt … Caravaggio had killed a man, and come close to death himself, and the first instinct of a Catholic was to make an act of contrition. His Magdalene  is the sinner who spent many years in solitary penitence; she conveys the sense of desolation and abandonment that is part of the mystical experience; and the divine light creates a dazzling darkness. — Helen Langdon

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superseventies:

Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider on the set of ‘Last Tango in Paris’, 1972.

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Charles Bukowski knocks one back.

nevver:

Reverend Cohen

omgthatdress:

Dress

Paco Rabanne, 1967

The Kyoto Costume Institute

theniftyfifties:

Brigitte Bardot in ’Mademoiselle Strip-tease’, 1957.

retrogasm:

retrogasm:

Mouse got hooked on the Needle…