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L'Embarquement pour Cythère Nº 11, Isabelle Menin

via Lumas Gallery:

Distorted Nature It is immediately apparent that Isabelle Menin’s artistic background is in painting. Her bright colours and invigorating, fanciful manipulation of texture and materiality have enthralled the art community. Menin’s works are like vortexes, pulling viewers in deeper and deeper. Menin describes her compositions as “Inland photographs and disordered landscapes”, as a means of drawing parallels between the complexity of the human character and that of nature. The inspiration for her work is drawn in part from Peter Paul Rubens and the so-called “Flemish Primitives”, an artistic circle prominent in the 15th and 16th Centuries that included Jan van Eyck, Hans Memling and Rogier van der Weyden. Menin’s link to the Flemish masters can be seen in her endeavour to create a distinctive form of reality inside fictional worlds.

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The all-time favourite.

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BO8ffgDbM80)

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“Everything you see I owe to spaghetti”

- Sophia Loren

From: ‘The Millionairess’

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Black Iris 1926, Georgia O’Keeffe

Georgia O’Keeffe 1918, Alfred Stieglitz

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Serenade for Strings in E major, Op. 22, was composed in just two weeks in May 1875. It remains one of the composer's more popular orchestral works to this day.

Tempo di Valse: The second movement, a waltz, opens with a lilting dance melody in C-sharp minor. The first section repeats, and the second section begins in E major. A string of eighth notes in the violins transitions into the second theme, also in E major. The first theme returns, and Part A is closed with a cadential fortissimo C-sharp minor chord. Part B opens with a modulation into the enharmonic parallel major of C-sharp minor, D-flat major. The theme of this section is developed, and then Part A returns. The movement ends on a C-sharp major chord.

Video footage: Prague 1912

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How effing cool is this image?

“The Black Knight Satellite, a 13,000-year-old Alien Satellite?”

More here: http://www.ancient-code.com/the-black-knight-a-13000-year-old-alien-satellite/

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“Collections” by Peter Lippmann for Cartier Art Magazine No.19

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Designing.

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Ambivalence, 2015 by Rebecca Ward

‘courtesy of the artist Ronchini Gallery’

via @anothermag

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Tunga, Siamese Hair Twins, Fundição Progresso, Lapa, 1987 Courtesy the artist, Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, and Luhring Augustine, New York. Photograph by Wilton Montenegro

via @anothermag website

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Photographers: Mert & Marcus

Fashion Editor: Emmanuelle Alt

Model: Gigi Hadid

Though not on sale until February 18th, the March issue of Vogue Paris is causing a sensation online. It features Gigi Hadid, on her first French Vogue cover. There are two versions of the cover: one styled with a Chanel jacket and pearls, the second, as Gigi posted on Instagram, “where I’m mostly wearing Chanel No.5″

Courtesy of CNINow Blog.

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Salvador Dali and Coco Chanel

(submitted by littlesuburbman)

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Hunter S. Thompson

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Daniel Reiter, Welle I

Daniel Reiter, Welle II

uk.lumas.com

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Rui Camilo, Spiritual Utopia II

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Discover Space NK

Favourite cinema advertisement by far.

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Great-white Egrets Location: Kiskunság National Park, Hungary Air battle of Great White Egrets in the National Park of Kiskunság, Hungary. Rivalry of the kin is frequent, even if there is no breeding season and they have enough food. Photo and caption by Bence Mate / National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest

http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/2014-national-geographic-traveler-photo-contest-deadline