Many people go out of their way to avoid using cramped airplane bathrooms, but we just discovered someone who seeks them out for awesomely creative purposes:
To pass the time during long flights, artist Nina Katchadourian goes to the lavatory, adorns herself in tissue paper costume, and creates hilarious self-portrait photos in the style of Flemish Renaissance paintings. She calls the series Seat Assignment: Lavatory Self-Portraits in the Flemish Style:
While in the lavatory on a domestic flight in March 2010, I spontaneously put a tissue paper toilet cover seat cover over my head and took a picture in the mirror. The image evoked 15th-century Flemish portraiture. I decided to add more images made in this mode and planned to take advantage of a long-haul flight from San Francisco to Auckland, guessing that there were likely to be long periods of time when no one was using the lavatory on the 14-hour flight. I made several forays to the bathroom from my aisle seat, and by the time we landed I had a large group of new photographs entitled Lavatory Self-Portraits in the Flemish Style.
[via Laughing Squid]
Lon Megargee, “Spirit Of Arizona” (oil on canvas, 82” x 48 3/4”, 1913). One of fifteen murals painted by Megargee for the Arizona State Capitol from 1913 to 1914.
Art By Sex Pistols’ Johnny Rotten
This self-portrait drawing and some others were found on a wall in a flat in London. Researchers argue that the site should be declared an important historical and archeological site.
Researchers called the art the “Lascaux of Punk.”
The Day of the Dead details - Diego Rivera, 1924. Fresco in the Ministry of Education, Mexico City, Mexico.
Icon of the Theotokos - From Santa Maria Nova, 6th century.
whenever I see Byzantine/Dark Ages European art with faces like this shit all I can think is thank fucking god for the Renaissance
Fun fact: “This shit” is considered to be one of the earliest examples of an iconic image still in existence. The paint has been scraped off and then repainted, giving us the weird combination of an insanely ancient face with a slightly younger body.
(via cavetocanvas)
Dubstep visualized, courtesy of Bob Ross.
A creative way of bringing art, well, to life. ”He doesn’t look 400 years old.”
I don’t even know. This was sent to me in a work email.
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