regardintemporel:

Hannah Höch - Cléopatra, 1970

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planetqueen:

rest in peace ray

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midcenturymodernfreak:

Alexander Calder Paints a BMW

The BMW Art Car Project was introduced by the French racecar driver and auctioneer Hervé Poulain, who wanted to invite an artist to create a canvas on an automobile. It was in 1975, when Poulain commissioned American artist and friend Alexander Calder to paint the first BMW Art Car. This first example would be a BMW 3.0 CSL which Poulain himself would race in the 1975 Le Mans endurance race. Since Calder’s work of art, many other renowned artists throughout the world have created BMW Art Cars, including David Hockney, Jenny Holzer, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, and Andy Warhol. - Via: 1 | 2 | 3

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sisterwolf:

Max Ernst and Dorothea Tanning with cement Capricorne sculpture, Sedona, Arizona, 1948.

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Sylvia Plath at the beach 

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loverofbeauty:

Eberhard Faber Ruby Eraser Box 1940

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babylonfalling:

Alan Parker (1971)

la-journee:

Marcel Duchamp, ca. 1960

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design-is-fine:

Eszter Haraszty, photographed by Herbert Matter, 1950s

Harazty is wearing a piece of sculpture from the man who thought best in wire, Alexander Calder. Calder had begun making jewellery for his sister’s dolls and went on to make 1,400 unique pieces.

His Manhattan dealer, Marian Willard, in her 1940 press release writes: These works of art are savage and deliberate and self-confidently sophisticated…This is a master modern artist’s contribution to the history of fashion. For a world already in chains it is superb stuff.

She then wrote to Calder in 1941 saying: concerned about the lack of ‘jewels’ on the horizon at present…You will have to do prodigious work the next two months. Remember the small, well fashioned, wearable ones are what we will cash in on. Willard sold Calder’s jewelry in her gallery for $5 to $25 a piece. Similar pieces now sell for $150,000 to $500,000.

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decayedintelligence:

Paula P. Orridge, Genesis P. Orridge, Alex Fergusson, Peter Christopherson and Geoff Rushton.

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