...this is a nice mess...

 by Anna Bjerger

Gustav Klimt, The Sunflower, 1907.

stilllifequickheart:

Esaias Thorén

Composition with Guitar

20th century

Spring Smiles by *Leonid Afremov

surrealappeal:

Georgia O’Keeffe, Red & Orange Streak, 1919.

stilllifequickheart:

Stanley Lewis

Still Life with a Bottle of Ale

1925

missfolly:

The Vegetable Garden with Donkey, by Joan Miro, 1918

thepowerofart:

Remedios Varo, The Cat’s Paradise, 1956.

(Source: surrealappeal)

missfolly:

Bouguereau’s Atelier at the Academie Julian, Paris, by Jefferson David Chalfant, 1891

Joaquín Mir (1873-1940)

Salvador Dali painting Amanda Lear in Spain, 1971. Photo by Yul Brynner.

paintings by Michael Carson

thepowerofart:

Claude Monet, A Corner of the Studio, 1861.

(Source: surrealappeal)

surrealism:

Sunday Dalí: Adolescence, 1941. Oil on canvas.

This painting features the young Dalí and his beloved nurse, Lucia. Her head and back are also the nose and mouth that, combined with the eyes in the hills, complete the paranoiac-critical face. The face might be Gala, with whom Dalí was becoming more and more infatuated at that time. Dalí loved his nurse very much so there is a symbolic reason to use her figure as the completing elements of Gala’s face.

This painting was stolen at gunpoint from Scheringa Museum for Realism in Spanbroek, Netherlands in 2009. To the best of my Google-fu it is still missing.

Salvador Dalí, A Couple with Their Heads Full of Clouds, 1936.