Collaborative artists Cara Thayer and Louie Van Patten
June Newton
By Helmut Newton
Jenny Saville
Jenny Saville is a Master of flesh and paint worthy of a place amongst predecessors such as Lucien Freud and Egon Schiele.
Erika Lust
Erika Lust, whose TED talk we’ve featured previously here, knows how to make great porn. With a refreshingly feminist viewpoint, a progressive and acclaimed filmography, numerous awards and great visuals, the Swedish director is pushing boundaries on and off the screen.
Drunk In Love
Märta Thisner is a Stockholm-based photographer whose work is best done after a tipple or two. “I shoot more when drinking because I’m a shy Swedish person, and that’s when we loosen up,” she says, a revelation that might give insight into her eye for capturing the free spirit of the women around her.
Anna Dart
Anna Dart is a painter and fashion illustrator currently based out of Barcelona, Spain. Dart’s work appears in private collections throughout the world from France, Germany, Spain, Ukraine, Russia, and the USA.
Via Anna Dart & Empty Kingdom
Touch
A simple gesture…
Hamilton
There’s always room for some David Hamilton…
Entwined
Costa Dvorezky paints human figures with broad, luxurious brushstrokes that leave traces of dripping paint throughout his work.
Embrace
Love everything about this image.
Hans Bellmer
Bellmer was a German artist, best known for the life-sized pubescent female dolls he produced in the mid-1930s – but it’s this little illustration that caught my eye.
Cling
Torso
A little bit of ‘Man’ today – torso by Gonzalo Benard
Quite Suggestive
Here’s a selection of digital postcards for the magazine’s social media marketing.
…mildly witty, mildly amusing, and hopefully will raise a smile.
Segments
Couldn’t resist this fleshy little number.
Parked Up
Photo by fetish photographer, Elmer Batters. Muito Bonita means ‘Beautiful”
Love Advent 2014
It’s that time of the year again…
…Sølve Sundsbø shoots Miranda Kerr for Day 1 of Love Magazine’s Advent Calendar – here.
Lolita-esque
Tampa, Alissa Nutting’s debut novel gives a jarring insight into the mind and methods of a conscience-free femme fatale.
Like a fine painting
Beautiful shot of Lizzie Bayliss by Maxwell Correia.
Ettore Sottsass Shiva Vase
Spanish design brand BD Barcelona has released a limited-edition gold version of the suggestively shaped Shiva Vase by late Italian Postmodernist designer Ettore Sottsass.
Ettore Sottsass, a leading member of the 1980s Memphis group, designed the original ceramic Shiva Vase for BD Barcelona in 1973.
The 23-centimetre-tall pink-glazed vessel, shaped like an erect penis, has an opening in the top for displaying flowers and is balanced by two low rounded elements on either side.
Two years before Sottsass’ death in 2005, a prototype version of the vase was created with a gold finish as a reward for an international student design competition. It has now been produced in a limited and numbered edition of 50 copies.
Riri!
Ellen Von Unwerth shoots Rihanna for the December issue of GQ Magazine.
Sheer
Soft hues.
Tea for two
We bid the weekend of fright farewell for another year…
…and I try to permanently erase the imprint of Alice’s Halloween costume!!
Here’s looking at you…
A cute image – no credit unfortunately.
Morning Reading
A lovely photo that editor Katherine Jane Wood took of designer Alice Taylor this morning!
Oleg Andreev
Beautiful series of black & whites from Russian Photographer Oleg Andreev.
Zbigniew Łagocki
Just a few examples of the work of Polish Architect and photographer Zbigniew Łagocki.
He took photographs all his life, set up solo and group exhibitions and entered photografic contests. During the International Biennal Art Exhibition in Sao Paulo in Brasil Łagocki was awarded gold medal for the photographic series “Aerotica”. In 1968 he was an organizer, inviting Zbigniew Dłubak as his collaborator, of the famed exhibition of Polish Subjective Photography.
Clam Shell
Georgia O’Keeffe (American, 1887-1986), Slightly Open Clam Shell, 1926. Pastel on white ground on paperboard, 18 ½ x 13 in. Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT.
Via Tumblr
The Girl From Ma’mariya
Female figure c. 3500 BCE unearthed in 1907 at Ma’mariya, Egypt.
This must be one of the earliest examples of recognisable figurative art and I am sure it was highly symbolic at the time.
Via: Xenophone
Roberto Ferri
Ferri is an artist and painter from Taranto, Italy, who is deeply inspired by Baroque painters (Caravaggio in particular) and other old masters of Romanticism, the Academy, and Symbolism.