modern art humor?

haha.

http://andand.tumblr.com/post/4305125972

also. I am once again sooo tempted to get a tumblr. it might be more fun than getting a twitter...

hercules and omphale

I know this painting was meant to be a lesson against the pitfalls of love (or something like that), but I'm sorry, it just makes me want to laugh.  (I almost did when the slide came up in art history lecture today).

The expressions and poses are just so funny!

Bartholomeus Spranger - Hercules and Omphale, c.1585

claude glass...

Claude glass - small mirror, slightly convex, tinted, and carried like a pocketbook, named for Claude Lorrain, the 17th century landscape painter - when people looked at the reflection in the claude glass, they would see a world not unlike that in a painting.

So, rich people in the 18th and 19th centuries would go out into the country, in their posh carriage or what have you, and instead of looking out directly at the landscape, they would turn their back to it and look into the reflected image in their fancy Claude glass.

We groan about how people would rather sit inside and watch movies instead of going outside and enjoying the fresh air.  But is it really that much different from back then?

Thomas Gainsborough - Artist Using a Claude Glass, c. 1750

the onion

just had to share this giant onion i sliced up today.

some perspective -

yes, half of it is the size of that large coffee mug...

some post-easter happiness

very clever

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erbd9cZpxps

http://www.highsnobette.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/chanelpaperbag.jpg