Odilon Redon

Symbolist painter Odilon Redon

This charcoal is Guardian Spirit of the Waters (1878) and can be found at the The Art Institute of Chicago

Random Street Installations, i.e. public space and the people that liven it up

And they're not marketing anything. Go figure.



Click here for more Trip On A Link :: Headless Dude hijinks.

Moreover, the tape lollipop dude is well known in dc circles.

Yoda deflects the Left Eye Deathray of the Disembodied Head of Salvador Dali on the coast of Spain

Yoda deflects the Left Eye Deathray of the Disembodied Head of Salvador Dali on the coast of Spain
Originally uploaded by heyrog.

In honor of Episode III coming out, I've done this MS Paint work with Yoda and Salvador Dali. Enjoy. Stay tuned for the full Yoda series coming to a blog near you.

Quiz: Art or Crap

Here's a fun little art quiz. Pretty easy for anybody that's ever read Janson's or Gardner's.

Quiz: Art or Crap

New side pic

I got bored of that Bierstadt, so I put up a Roy Lichtenstein
Still Life with Goldfish Bowl and Painting of a Golf Ball
1972
Oil and Magna on canvas
52 x 42 in
Private collection

Picture of the week/month etc.

To liven up the blog a bit, I'm going to have a photograph or painting in the sidebar on the right. The first one is by René Magritte and titled La condition humaine, (1933)
oil on canvas, 100 x 81 x 1.6 cm (39 3/8 x 31 7/8 x 5/8 in.)

If you'd like to see it up close and personal, visit the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. You can read their writeup of it here.