17 Marvelous and Kick-Ass "Daliesque" Surrealist Images!

I'm really loving this captivating and stupendous collection of surrealist "Daliesque" images! The name of the artist is Vladimir Kush and if you want to see more of his fantastic images, visit his website at Vladimir Kush

From Breast to Beard: Pornography, Extreme Violence and other Weird Stuff in Works of Art from the Renaissance

Master of the Fontainebleau School, Gabrielle d'Estrees and one of her Sisters


Alonso Cano, Miraculous Lactation of St Bernard


Cornelis van Haarlem, Monk with a Nun


Quentin Massys, Grotesque Old Woman


Andrea Mantegna, Saint Sebastian

The holy and the profane, or the spiritual and the corporeal, begun to intermingle in Renaissance life and art. Towards the end of the Renaissance the erotic content became more and more evident. Mannerism produced images where a mythological or allegorical motif appears only as a disguise for erotic contents. Quasi sacred motifs such as Cornelisz's painting The Monk with a Nun were just cover ups for erotica if not almost pornography. This painting was meant for the Prinsenhof (the Princes' Court), which had been set up at the Friars Preachers' Monastery of the Dominicans.

Under the influence of Catholic propaganda, which was advertising the human body as 'sinful' and strictly forbidding any nakedness in Christian iconography, many artists themselves painted over the sinful nudity in their paintings. The Church resisted the spirit of the Renaissance, which had just learned that spirit and body are two sides of the same coin. Its medieval mentality postulated the holiness of spirit and recognized the body just as a part of decaying nature."

In addition to the erotic motifs, we have bizarre and/or extremely violent images including a woman with a full beard nursing a child, a man getting flailed in public and two women violently cutting a man's head off. Aiwaz notes, "The Renaissance cabinet of curiosities consists of unexpected motifs from real and imaginary life that displays, by means of twisted reality, the real spirit, mind and body of the Renaissance man, who is split between medieval superstition and the birth of a new Subject.


Jusepe de Ribera, Bearded Woman


Correggio, Leda with the Swan


Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith beheading Holofernes


Giulio Romano, Jupiter and Olympia


Agnolo Bronzino, Allegory of Lust


Jean Fouquet, Virgin and Child Surrounded by Angels


After Michelangelo, Leda and the Swan


Pieter Huys, Temptation of St Anthony


Jan Gossaert, Virgin and Child
photos and text via Aiwaz

Swedish Magazine 'Tare Lugnt' Published its Third Issue on Human Skin via Tattoos

Swedish tattoo magazine Tare Lugnt designed and printed its third issue on human skin via (permanent non-permanent?)tattoos on a guy's leg! I don't speak Swedish so I have no clue what the issue was about. But I'll tell you one thing: these people put their money where their mouths are....or something like that. Amazing! Check out the video they put together of the entire process below.









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Renaissance Illusion Paintings - Giuseppe Arcimboldo Used Fruits, Trees, Animals, Fish for his Incredible Portraits

Giuseppe Arcimboldo was an Italian Renaissance painter best known for creating imaginative portrait heads made entirely of such objects as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish, and books — that is, he painted representations of these objects on the canvas arranged in such a way that the whole collection of objects formed a recognizable likeness of the portrait subject. This work is just magnificent!


"Renaissance Mannerist — Giuseppe Arcimboldo, (also spelled Arcimboldi), royal painter and imperial party planner to sixteenth-century Italian emperors; Ferdinand I, Maximilian II, and Rudolf II.

Giuseppe Arcimboldo was born in 1527 and grew up during the High Renaissance. A natural artistic talent landed him a coveted spot as student to the renowned painter Leonardo Da Vinci. Later Arcimboldo accepted a position as Royal Painter in the imperial court. Arcimboldo faithfully served the court for the next 25 years.

Part of Arcimboldo's duties included designing gala events for the imperial family. These were flashy affairs with gilded fountains and rivers of champagne, parades and promenades, flocks of colored birds, music, theater, tons of original artwork, sculptures, and much pageantry. Giuseppe invented many unique special effects for these events such as a enormous hydro-mechanically powered musical instrument which acted like a modern color organ. Arcimboldo called it the "Harpsichord of Color."

Among the services Arcimboldo performed for the Court included the task of producing an endless series of portraits for the imperial family and other heads of state. Since there were no copy or print machines in the sixteenth century every portrait had to be duplicated by hand. It was during these endless hours spent in his studio that Arcimboldo invented the style of painting that would forever separate him from the other painters of the day.


The Composite Head. Giuseppe began to paint tongue-in-cheek portraits of people with rendered clumps of mammals, fish, vegetables and other natural objects. Instead of a nose Arcimboldo uses an elephant to form the shape, instead of an ear, a pelican or alligator, instead of a mouth he uses the shape of a ripe vegetable. His whimsical "composite head" paintings were the hit of his day, and continue to delight art lovers in every generation." sandlotscience

Fantastically Weird 3-D Tattoos

Nicole Tran Ba Vang's Amazing “Human Flesh Apparels”

Nicole Tran Ba Vang is a very talented photographer whose amazingly creative work involving digitally-manipulated “human flesh apparels”.

Based in Paris, the artist seeks to explore society’s obsessiveness with perfect bodies by creating visuals of female bodies with removable boobs, butts and other body parts.

This fantastically shocking work is called Collection Printemps/Eté

























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Umbrella Hats, Lampshade Hats, Sex-Doll Lips...Is it JC Penny? NO! It's a Fashion Show!

This is haute couture designer Alexander McQueen's Fall 2009 Ready-to-Wear collection. The thing about these "hats" is that..well, they are ridiculous and nobody in their right mind would wear them (remember, this is READY TO WEAR). But if you have a real hankering for an umbrehat, you can go buy your own damn umbrella and make a f*cking hat with it! An umbrella hat. No hands or common sense needed.

Love it or Hate it: Vanessa Beecroft's Shocking and Confrontational Art

"Vanessa Beecroft is an artist known for her performance art based on social and cultural commentary. Her images are extremely striking and her concepts deeply evolved. “There is a passive aggressive beauty to this art,” said Roberta Smith for the New York Times" says Cyanatrendland.

Indeed, Beecroft's art is subversive and confrontational because it challenges and invades our comfort zones in a serene and beautiful but powerful way. Check out the graphic and stunning video of one of Beecroft's public performances protesting the massacre that goes on in Darfur. The video is called: VB61 - Still Death! Darfur Still Deaf? In this shocking video you will see lots of black bodies--or bodies that were painted black-- lying motionless on the ground in an enormous pool of blood.













Vanessa Beecroft

Weird Fish with a See-Through Head

"With a head like a fighter-plane cockpit, a Pacific barreleye fish shows off its highly sensitive, barrel-like eyes--topped by green, orblike lenses--in a picture released today but taken in 2004.

The fish, discovered alive in the deep water off California's central coast by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), is the first specimen of its kind to be found with its soft transparent dome intact."









Via National Geographic

Amazing Neo-Classical Sculptures Carved out of Fruits and Vegetables

These exquisite images come from a print commercial for WMF Knives which is a German-based company that has been manufacturing table and kitchenware products for over 150 years.

The sculpted mini replicas of famous works of arts on fruits and vegetables are supposed to highlight just how sharp WMF’s knives are. One of the masterpieces showcased is that of the 19th century Italian Neo-classical sculptor Antonio Canova’s “The Three Graces”. Fantastic work!










Via Ads of the World

Catwalk Fails - A Video of 7 of the Most Vicious Runway Falls Ever

I have compiled 10 of the most serious cases in a single auto playing video of very, very nasty and violent falls by models and designers on the catwalks. You won't believe how dangerous those runways can be sometimes for those ultra-slim models...and Carmen Electra.



My appreciation to Time Magazine

Stunning Video of Houses of Cards Crumbling for Homelessness Campaign

This is a stunning and hunting video. Shape and Colour explains:

"Radiohead donated the rights to use their track, In Rainbow’s “Videotape” to Leo Burnett London for this new spot, “House of Cards” (coincidentally or not, also the name of another track from Radiohead’s In Rainbows…) The House of Cards campaign is promoting Shelter, a UK housing charity working to bring attention to the desperate homelessness crisis in Britain. Everyone involved - Radiohead, Leo Burnett, Framestore, Outsider, Dom and Nic, and actress Samantha Morton - donated their time to create this worthwhile spot.

The final 20 seconds are absolutely stellar. So haunting I cant stop thinking about it"

Aaron Goodman's Fantastic Digitally Modified Photography

I constantly run into a lot of photoshopped stuff and I must admit that there are times when I feel that I'm done posting photoshopped images. But then I run into cool stuff like this.

"Aaron Goodman is a brilliant New York based photo illustrator and photographer - His style remind me of Lachapelle’s work and as you can see Aaron mastered well the photoshop retouching ! Aaron’s work has appeared in over 55 national publications and has been featured on the covers of such magazines as Time, Forbes, Smart Money, and Business Week."

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