1. j-dorn: meadowtea:Rinaldo Carnielo (1853-1910).

    j-dorn:

    meadowtea:Rinaldo Carnielo (1853-1910).

  2. eddiexmachete: family dinner

    eddiexmachete:

    family dinner

  3. darklyeuphoric:

    Paul Van Hoeydonck - “Homo Cyberneticum” (“Cybernetic Man”) series, 1968-9

    cybernetic man — birth of a new type of man,
    adapted to new duties and interplanetary missions.
    we known already at this moment that it will be soon possible to adapt man to new environments by adding or replacing parts of his body with cybernetic elements,
    this in order to enable him to move more easily in space.

    From cyberneticzoo.com

  4. arkadea: So-called “Rondanini Medusa”. Marble, Roman copy after a 5th-century BC Greek original by Phidias, which was set on the shield of Athena Parthenos.

    arkadea:

    So-called “Rondanini Medusa”. Marble, Roman copy after a 5th-century BC Greek original by Phidias, which was set on the shield of Athena Parthenos.

  6. claresophiet: Ah Xian’s porcelain busts are not only pieces of incredible craftsmanship, but they also allude to his own life. Having fled China during 1989, the artist sought asylum in Australia. Ten years later, he returned to his homeland and began this series of work, a reflection on how one’s roots are never far behind. These busts are re-inventions of a great Chinese craft, but they have been liberated from tight restrictions. There are tensions running throughout: between the sombre expressions and at times colourful displays, between the three dimensions of the ceramics and the traditional flat plane of painting, between the intimacy of the portraits he has produced, many of which are of his family and friends, and the political expression of his culture as someone living elsewhere. Click through on the image for a link to Ah Xian’s page on the Queensland Art Gallery website.

    claresophiet:

    Ah Xian’s porcelain busts are not only pieces of incredible craftsmanship, but they also allude to his own life. Having fled China during 1989, the artist sought asylum in Australia. Ten years later, he returned to his homeland and began this series of work, a reflection on how one’s roots are never far behind. These busts are re-inventions of a great Chinese craft, but they have been liberated from tight restrictions. There are tensions running throughout: between the sombre expressions and at times colourful displays, between the three dimensions of the ceramics and the traditional flat plane of painting, between the intimacy of the portraits he has produced, many of which are of his family and friends, and the political expression of his culture as someone living elsewhere.

    Click through on the image for a link to Ah Xian’s page on the Queensland Art Gallery website.

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"Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established , an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence."---- The German Ideology, 1845