Lazarus Inspired

Left:
Félix Bracquemond (1833 - 1914)
Unpublished Frontispiece for Baudelaire’s ‘Les Fleurs du Mal’
Etching, Paper size: 17.4x11.6cm, 1857

Right:
Félix Bracquemond
Unpublished Frontispiece for Baudelaire’s ‘Les Fleurs du Mal’
Etching and drypoint, Paper size: 18.7x12.6cm, 1857

I love the reworking of the skeleton. BHP approved cover up with additional drypointing. Not sure why it wasn’t picked - the eventual Frontispiece was done by Félicien Rops (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2c/Rops_Les_Epaves_1866.jpg) but seems to be done with knowledge of Braquemond’s version. Or they both had the same briefing (skeleton, flowers, tree, title).
Braquemond photographed by Nadar. Oh yeah.

And just because:
http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Les_Fleurs_du_mal/1857/Boh%C3%A9miens_en_voyage

Further reading:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjSkktZL7zk
Chelsea Wolfe - Mer

mydarkenedeyes: Intao

Mon, 20 May 2013 22:29:11 +0100

mydarkenedeyes:

Intao

likeafieldmouse: Tom Phillips - A Humument (1966-73) “In 1966...

Sun, 19 May 2013 22:07:43 +0100

likeafieldmouse:

Tom Phillips - A Humument (1966-73)

“In 1966 Phillips set himself a task: to find a second-hand book for threepence and alter every page by painting, collage and cut-up techniques to create an entirely new version. He found his threepenny novel in a junkshop on Peckham Rye, South London. This was an 1892 Victorian obscurity titled A Human Document by W.H Mallock and he titled his altered book A Humument.

The first version of all 367 treated pages was published in 1973 since when there have been four revised editions. A Humument is now one of the best known and loved of all 20th Century artist’s books and is regarded as a seminal classic of postmodern art.”

ibzy: Tricolor dry point print. 2013.

Fri, 17 May 2013 22:24:46 +0100

ibzy:

Tricolor dry point print. 2013.

fisiologiadelgusto: hallucihoop: Skywatcher :: Susan Seddon...

Sat, 11 May 2013 01:51:27 +0100

fisiologiadelgusto:

hallucihoop:

Skywatcher :: Susan Seddon Boulet

darksilenceinsuburbia: Rick Berry. Cliff Dweller, 2012. Oil on...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 20:18:48 +0100

darksilenceinsuburbia:

Rick Berry. Cliff Dweller, 2012. Oil on panel, 24 x 48.

fuckyeahmedicaldiagrams: Lynn Skordal

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 20:18:53 +0100

fuckyeahmedicaldiagrams:

Lynn Skordal

themagicfarawayttree: Leonor Fini, Cérémonie, 1960.

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 09:14:20 +0100

themagicfarawayttree:

Leonor Fini, Cérémonie, 1960.

likeafieldmouse: These have always bothered me, in some obvious...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 22:09:54 +0100

likeafieldmouse:

These have always bothered me, in some obvious ways and some not-so-obvious ways. I’ve been reluctant to post them until now. I’m not sure why.

Berlinde de Bruyckere - We are All Flesh (2004-12)

“An unsettling, reconfigured concept of the body, helpless and contorted, takes center stage in Bruyckere’s faceless sculptures. Abject deformation is turned into beauty as if the artist were trying to wrest a shape from abstract form.”