And here is
Ten Dreams, your
Symbolist,
Magical Realist, and
Metarealist brain/eye candy art source, featuring, among scores of many other artists and subjects,
Alma Tadema,
Bouguereau,
Ernst,
Hundertwasser,
Klimt, and
Maxfield Parrish, too. And then there is the
Ten Dreams of Ten Dreams, and not an exemplar known to me included.
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posted by y2karl
on Mar 31, 2011 -
7 comments
Large-scale color photographs from 2005 to 2006 reflect the ritual adornment and spirituality of masquerade in Nigeria, Benin and Burkina Faso in West Africa. These portraits of masqueraders build on Galembo's work of the past twenty years photographing the rituals and religious culture in Nigeria, Brazil, Cuba, Jamaica and Haiti, as well as the homegrown custom of Halloween in the United States. West African Masquerade.
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posted by Rinku
on May 30, 2010 -
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Looking for some new head gear for your next party? While many reach for a cap to cover up those bad hair days, Spanish designer Kepa Rasmussen would rather sculpt a mask. Crafting highly innovative facial sculptures under his label
Aardvark K Mask, Rasmussen's conceptual pieces are hand-crafted expressly
to make heads turn.
posted by netbros
on Feb 26, 2009 -
4 comments
In
one of the largest jewelry heists in history, robbers -- at least two wearing women's wigs and dresses -- relieved a Harry Winston boutique of $108 million worth of diamond rings, necklaces, and watches. Despite
criminal investigation teachings that robbers "have better things to do with their money than to buy an array of masks and disguises" and will opt for functional attire, many thieves express themselves creatively and impractically through costumery, dressing as
Dracula and Black Father Christmas, a tree, Greek prime ministers, clowns, and
ghosts, while others cover their faces with
duct tape, cookie dough, drywall, and baking-flour-and-ketchup. Minimalists just wear
men's underwear and
women's thongs on their heads.
posted by terranova
on Dec 6, 2008 -
29 comments
"
The Photographer Ralph Eugene Meatyard (May 15, 1925 - May 7, 1972) suffered a fate common to artists who are very much of but also very far ahead of their time. Everything about his life and his art ran counter to the usual and expected patterns. He was an optician, happily married, a father of three, president of the Parent-Teacher Association, and coach of a boy's baseball team." "His images had nothing to do with the gritty "street photography" of the east coast or the romantic view camera realism of the west coast. His best known images were populated with
dolls and
masks, with
family,
friends and
neighbors pictured in
abandoned buildings or in
ordinary suburban backyards." His most well known and last photography series "
The Family Album of Lucybelle Crater" (1972) was based on the short story by
Flannery O'Connor, "
The Life You Save May Be Your Own."
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posted by Del Far
on May 28, 2008 -
13 comments
Other Africas. Critical observers have long noted that museum collections from Africa are composed largely of the spoils of colonial pillage. Thus the Africa we normally encounter in museums—the Africa of masks and ritual objects displayed on walls and in glass cases—is a fetishized Africa of colonial nostalgia. The objective of this exhibit is to offer images of
Other Africas, perspectives that lead us away from the desolate and romanticized Africa of the Western imagination toward those places where African modernities are emerging.
posted by tpoh.org
on Jun 4, 2005 -
27 comments
I have been thinking about
masks lately.
Masks are
ancient and
universal, our ancestors put on masks to become an other, to become a god, even unto
this day.
Greek tragedy and
comedy began in the worship of
Dionysos, the
god of wine, intoxication, and creative ecstasy, in
rituals where worshipers often wore or worshipped masks. Indeed, the word for mask in Greek drama was persona, now commonly used to describe
constructed online identities. And so
we understand ourselves as wearing masks, whole series of masks--behind which we find only emptiness, for we can never see ourselves truly.
posted by y2karl
on Feb 24, 2005 -
30 comments
The scariest costumes this year represent those that crushed the dreams of many, bilked millions from strangers, and got away. Psycho Killers? Crazed Snipers? No, Forbes gives you:
CEO Halloween masks. I know the kids will love going as
Martha. It's a good thing.
posted by mathowie
on Oct 29, 2002 -
14 comments
