Canalettos's Venice - two paintings

Gerome and Alma-Tadema: antiquity imagined

'Great art has dreadful manners...'

Great art has dreadful manners. The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you into believing masterpieces are polite things, visions that soothe, charm and beguile, but actually they are thugs. Merciless and wily, the greatest paintings grab you in the headlock, rough up your composure and then proceed in short order to rearrange your sense of reality.
     ~ Simon Schama in 'The Power of Art', 2006.

David with the Head of Goliath, Caravaggio, 1610

album of chilean masters

a painting by Pedro Lira. I am collecting artworks by chilean masters in a new album at Flickr, think that they- painters and works (my favorites) -  deserve an easy-to-find site where revise and admire them.

Aelita Andre, art prodigy, exhibits solo show in New York

seen at HUH Magazine.
more info at Aelita's website.

Van Gogh is getting darker // Van Gogh se oscurece

abstract + figurative

in my Flickr page I am posting a new line of digital paintings. they will be on canvas very soon!