Art & Literature

This is a thread where you introduce your favorite art pieces to BZ. I'd like to limit it to non-performing arts. So paintings, sculptures, architecture, an conceptual art are all acceptable. To get us started: Resurrezione di Lazzaro by Caravaggio Before I start explaining why I like this painting, I should probably mention that I am a great admirer of abstract art. There is very little in the Baroque era that I really love, yet this painting finds itself easily in my top ten. Why is hard to explain without access to the piece itself. Just believe me when I tell you that the picture I included above does not even capture 1/100th of the power of seeing this piece in…

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Do you know Jane Austen? What's your favourite book? Favourite character?

there's a "movies that make you cry" thread and I thought there should be a books one too Mine is such a large list A walk to remember by Nicholas Sparks If I were a boy by Haki Stermilli Uncle Tom's Cabin by H.B.Stou Harry Potter 5 and 7 Le Père Goriot(Uncle Goriot)" by Honore de Balzac "Pride & Prejudice" by Jane Ousten "Anne Franks Diary" I'm sure there are a lot more which I don't remember I'll post them later

I sure hope I'm not the only one with an account there Here is mine http://keshuval.deviantart.com/

i started this thread over at chilax, and thought it should continue over here. so, here are some of my old stuff...everyone feel free to post their prose/poetry some old journal/book entries: “It's 2:20am and I can't sleep. I can feel my bones creaking like old pipes filled with water. I don't know what my bones are filled with that is making them creak so much. Or why they're creaking. Or why I'm paying attention to it all of a sudden. I bet that they've been creaking for years and I just now noticed them. All I know is that I can't sleep because my bones are creaking and I pay so much attention to shit like that…” “The floor tiles were moving…off the floor an…

Do you like painting and drawing? i love painting and drawing

my favorite comic books are The Witching Painkiller Jane Jungle Girl there is alot more & will be posted later on!

lets talk the meaning of the book...

dilbert? snoopy or garfield? they are the real reson why a kid like us would want to read the newspaper. my fav is garfield and baby blues.

What are some of your favorite book covers? I'll start out with one of mine.

I couldn't find a thread for him...and I love him so I am making one (I hope I was not wrong) Luis Royo (born in 1954 in Olalla, Spain) is a Spanish artist, known for his darkly sensual paintings of women and mechanical life forms. He has also recently started doing sculptures of some of his earlier art. He was born in Olalla, a small town near Teruel, Spain. He has produced many paintings for his own books/exhibitions, and has also produced art for various other media: videogames, CD album covers, comic book covers, and Tarot cards. He is most famous for his work doing illustrations of Julie Strain for the animated movie Heavy Metal. Biography Education & earl…

The Luxe Series by Anna Godbersen: Pretty girls in pretty dresses, partying until dawn. Irresistible boys with mischievous smiles and dangerous intentions. Who else has read it? Anyone? I can hardly wait until the third novel comes out! (The model for the second book cover is Taylor Warren!)

I bought the books and I'm planning to read them soon enough Has anyone here read them? Does anyone like them? What's your opinion? Discussions!!!! oh, btw guys better say that they're amazing books, :persuazn: since I've already bought them and they're the last books I'm allowed to buy till the end of the year :|

Interesting project by photographer François Brunelle. A collection of photographic portraits of North American and European look-alikes. Each photo features two look-alikes, who are not related, side by side. (Pictues from haha.nu) François Brunelle's site

http://www.davidknipper.com/famous_person/...peterwitkin.jpg HOTLINKING Please do not hotlink from another person’s website, If you're not sure what hotlinking is, please visit this page for more information. http://www.bellazon.com/main/index.php?showtopic=22405 **edited by MauiKane Joel-Peter Witkin is a photographer whose images of the human condition are undeniably powerful. For more than twenty years he has pursued his interest in spirituality and how it impacts the physical world in which we exist. Finding beauty within the grotesque, Witkin pursues this complex issue through people most often cast aside by society -- human spectacles including hermaphrodites,…

Biography : Snow ran away from home and began living on the streets at 13 or 14, and began taking photographs, he said, as a record of places he might not remember the next day. He was included in the 2006 Wall Street Journal article titled "The 23-Year Old Masters", which selected ten top emerging US artists including Rosson Crow, Ryan Trecartin, Zane Lewis, Barney Kulok, Rashawn Griffin and Keegan McHargue. The artist's photographic work is in a thematically similar mode to photographers Nan Goldin, Larry Clark, Ryan McGinley and Richard Billingham, often depicting scenes of a candid or illicit nature. Instances of sex, drug taking, violence and art-world pretentious…

Paper dolls Paper dolls 90's supermodels: scans from ELLE Top Model 90's Amber Valletta (in Chanel) Bridget Hall

She's my fav. artist since I was a kid so I thought to make a topic thingy-me-jig about her As from Wikipedia: "Lisa Frank is an American children's artist, founder of Lisa Frank Incorporated. The artist's work appears on various commercial elementary and middle-school products, mostly school supplies. Also common among Lisa Frank-related items are stickers and a variety of other merchandise such as clothing, toys, and even light switch covers, primarily marketed towards young girls. She founded the company in 1979, and her success resulted from her sticker line. The company's headquarters is in Tucson, Arizona, and is easily visible because of the bright hearts, st…

because she's one of my favorite photographers and i think i'm not the only one and one post on the photography's thread is not enough i decided to create this one to post her work. biography : Diane Arbus (March 14, 1923 – July 26, 1971) was an American photographer and writer noted for black-and-white square photographs of "deviant and marginal people (dwarfs, giants, transvestites, nudists, circus performers) or of people whose normality seems ugly or surreal." A friend said that Arbus said that she was "afraid... that she would be known simply as 'the photographer of freaks'"; however, that phrase has been used repeatedly to describe her. In 1972, a year after she…

Luis Royo was born in Cutanda, Teruel (Spain) in 1945. When he became of age, he studied drawing, art and design. During the seventies he worked in several design studios while focussing on his painting. He took part in various joint exhibitions and his work was shown in individual exhibitions in different cities in Spain. His interests expanded into comics and by the early eighties he was published internationally in such magazines as 1984, Comic International, Rambala and occasionally, El Vibora and Heavy Metal. Much of his art can be found in online comic books and other media. In 1983 he began a longstanding relationship with Norma Editorial and devoted himse…

THE CLASSIC DEBATE FOR THE PAST 40 PLUS YEARS: WHO IS REALLY THE STRONGEST, SUPERMAN OR THE HULK?

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so i start this tread with a famous graffiti artist, Banksy. in 2010, he has also made the opening sequence of the TV show The Simpsons

This is how I think The Punisher should have been presented on film using Tom Jane. Forget the 89 and 04 ever happened and forget about Spiderman 3. Here is my version of SM3.