When I visited the Amsterdams Historisch Museum a few weeks ago, I was surprised and thrilled to find, in a room devoted to enormous guild portraits of different sorts of tradesmen, 2 walls devoted to portraits of surgeons guilds (see top photo for an installation view.) The portraits range from the early 17th to the late 18th Century and are truly spectacular in scale, quality, and affect. Many of the guild portraits were painted during the annual surgeon's guild public dissection, for which the city would provide an executed criminal. My favorite of these paintings is the third image down, the painting of one of my favorite historical figures of all time, Doctor Frederick Ruysch, dissecting an infant with the assistance of his son, who holds an animatedly posed child's skeleton. Ruysch was a brilliant Dutch anatomist famous for his imaginative tableaus using similarly animated tiny skeletons, as well as his uncannily life-like wet specimens, famously captured by Rosamond Purcell in the wonderful Finders, Keepers. I have found copies of all the surgeon's guild paintings on view in this room (and a few more found in the museum's portrait database) and posted them here, for your pleasure. Images, top to bottom :1) Installation view. 2)Anatomische les van Dr. Sebastiaan Egbertsz., ca. 1601-'03; Aert Pietersz. (ca. 1550 - 1612). 3) Anatomische les van Dr. Frederick Ruysch, 1683; Jan van Neck (ca. 1634/'35 - 1714). 4) De osteologieles van Dr. Sebastiaen Egbertsz., 1619; toegeschreven aan Nicolaes Eliasz. Pickenoy (1591 - 1653) toegeschreven aan Thomas de Keyser (1596 of 1597 - 1667). 5) Anatomische les van Prof. Frederik Ruysch, 1670; Adriaen Backer (ca. 1630-'32 - 1684). 6) Anatomische les van Dr. Willem Röell, 1728; Cornelis Troost (1697 - 1750). 7) Anatomische les van Dr. Jan Deijman (fragment), 1656; Rembrandt (1606 - 1669)
DALLAS — While heterogeneous in form, cultural reference, and concept, the four exhibitions at the center of the Dallas Contemporary 2015 season openers stand together seamlessly.
Geof Kern se encuentra entre los más premiados fotógrafos americanos. Su característico trabajo muy es una combinación de racionalismo y conceptualismo, inspirado en los pintores post-modernistas. Geof Kern trabaja en un guión antes de fotografiar,. Sus imágenes destilan humor cinematográfico y un mundo muy original. Algunas de las imágenes de Kern son en silencio y quieto, nos recuerdan al estoico estilo de actuación de Buster Keaton, mientras que otras incluyen un toque de fantasía. Su fotografía de moda sirve como algo más que simples elementos visuales diseñados para exhibir ropa y accesorios. Sus fotografías estimulan al espectador y provocan una serie de reacciones. Domina el arte de la narración y se toma siempre el tiempo necesario para trazar cada toma antes de una sesión mediante la elaboración de guiones gráficos. Kern dice: "A veces sólo tienes que preguntarte, ¿por qué dejar la espontaneidad al azar?" Sus fotografías se exhiben en todo el mundo.
Destroy Wild Ginger. via I was running late for work and couldn't find her leash, this is how I walked my dog this morning. via Well...someone was a horrible parent. via This just happened on national television here in The Netherlands. via My neighbor shredded our internet line with his excavator 4 days ago and
People from around the world shared these hilarious images of incredibly obvious instructions, signs and clothing labels - and snaps of passersby who needed extra help.
I scritch I scratch forever do I feel I am at the bottom of an abyss looking up not able to climb no matter how hard I try. Do you see me? Do you see beyond the outside of me? Or is all you seeR…
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Recalling my unusual escape from lower Manhattan that Tuesday morning.
© Robert Frank, New York, 11th Street and Broadway, 1951.
A veces, el mundo entero parece estar en contra de nosotros, y en esos días nos advierte para que nos escondamos y no toquemos nada. Esta mala racha a menudo llega inesperadamente, pero todos sabemos que lo que no nos mata, nos hace más fuertes.
