Category: Art

A cool painting: Influential people, past and present

By , on May 12, 2010

…appar­ently, Discussing the Divine Comedy with Dante. [with Wikipedia Links & Mouse-over Tags]

It’s got 103 of the most inter­esting fig­ures of his­tory jux­ta­posed together, and in some cases, inter­acting with each other, in a time­less image. From Bill Gates to Plato, Bruce Lee to the Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses II, Margaret Thatcher to Audrey Hepburn, Adolf Hitler and Saddam Hussein, Sigmund Freud to Jack Kevorkian, Albert Einstein to Che Guevara, Charles Darwin dressed as Noah, to Osama Bin Laden and the 72 Houris. Check it out!

Originally painted by three Chinese artists: Dai Dudu, Li Tiezi, and Zhang An, in 2006; oil on canvas.

http://cliptank.com/PeopleofInfluencePainting.htm

Art immortal

By , on August 26, 2006

I recently dis­cov­ered the strik­ingly simple and haunt­ingly beau­tiful art of Thalia Took. This image is of the Arab Triple Goddess.

Arab Triple Goddess

Panorama Theme by Themocracy