Friday, January 1, 2016

Kenyon Cox nude study

Kenyon Cox nude study


Author/ArtistKenyon Cox (1856–1919)
Title.
DescriptionEnglish: "Study drawing shows the allegorical figure of Romance nude. She bends her head to read a book on her lap. Romance was one figure in a painting, The arts, in the north end lunette of the Southwest Gallery in the Library of Congress' Jefferson Building." Graphite drawing
Date1896
Medium.
Dimensions.
Current locationMusée d'Orsay, Paris, France
References.
Source/PhotographerLibrary of Congress
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PermissionPublic Domain
LicensingThe author died in 1919, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 90 years or less.


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Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Beauty, Sir Francis Bacon


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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

- Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

어느 정도의 야릇함이 없는 대단한 미(美)란 없습니다.

- 프랜시스 베이컨

Thursday, June 4, 2015

Dokdo, Islander


If you call Dokdo Takeshima, the island must not look so beautiful.

- Islander

Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Love, Helen Hayes


The truth [is] that there is only one terminal dignity — love. And the story of love is not important — what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

- Helen Hayes, Guideposts (January 1960)

Saturday, May 23, 2015

Beauty, Albert Einstein


The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Saturday, May 2, 2015

Appearance, Spencer Tracy about Katharine Hepburn


Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.

- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn

Not much meat on her, but what there is, is cherce.

Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Life, Marty Rubin


I don't want to be the one who says life is beautiful. I want to be the one who feels it.

- Marty Rubin

Monday, March 9, 2015

Girl in bikinis

Girl in bikinis


DescriptionEnglish: Flirt, pulp cover, April 1953
Oil on board 33 x 25 in. Signed lower left
This painting was also reproduced as figure 292 in The Great American Pin-up by Charles G. Martignette and Louis K. Meisel, Taschen, 1996
DateApril 1953
Sourcehttp://commons.wikimedia.org/
AuthorPeter Driben
Camera location.
PermissionPublic Domain
LicensingThis work has been released into the public domain by its author.


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Sunday, February 15, 2015

Beauty, Sandara PARK (2NE1)



All of us have times when we think we are ugly, but all of us have a unique beauty that others do not have.

- Sandara PARK, 2NE1

Wednesday, February 11, 2015

We, Yura (Girl's Day)


We are cute, sexy, powerful and more.

- Yura, Girl's Day