Hand-holding flames

 

Porcelain cheeseburger

 

Cat sculpture

Songbird44's self-portrait

I'm sending you my very favorite self-portrait. It's a blind contour drawing (I drew it while looking in the mirror and NOT looking at my hand) that I colored in with colored pencils. It might be my best work ever so far.--songbird44

Who doesn't love this? I know I do! --Teresa

Frances Darlington

1912 Sculpture of Joseph Priestley (inventor of carbonated water) by Frances Darlington.

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Food art

Ida Frosk, aka Ida Skivenes, food artist from Norway.

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Medieval art

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Head of a Bear

Head of a Bear is a drawing study made by Leonardo da Vinci circa 1480. It is small in scale, measuring only 7 by 7 centimetres (2.8 in × 2.8 in), and is rendered in silverpoint pencil. It is thought to be part of a study of animals that Leonardo made in this period. The artist may have drawn upon this study when painting the head of the animal in his Lady with an Ermine of 1489–1490. The drawing was owned by the British painter Sir Thomas Lawrence in the 18th century and by the art collector Norman Colville in the early 20th century. The American billionaire Thomas Kaplan purchased the drawing in 2008. It sold in 2021 for a total of £8.8 million, a record for a drawing by da Vinci.

More info here.

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Dorothea Tanning

 'La Truite au bleu' ('Poached Trout') (1952)

Dorothea Tanning with Max Ernst

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Beard transportation

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Throwing up art

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Pooping dog puzzle

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George Morland Kleintierfänger 1793

There is nothing I find intriging about this painting other than the expression of the dog in the lower right corner.

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American Gothic

American Gothic is a 1930 painting by Grant Wood in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. Wood was inspired to paint what is now known as the American Gothic House in Eldon, Iowa, along with "the kind of people [he] fancied should live in that house". It depicts a farmer standing beside his daughter – often mistakenly assumed to be his wife. The painting's name is a word play on the house's architectural style, Carpenter Gothic.

The figures were modeled by Wood's sister Nan Wood Graham and their dentist Dr. Byron McKeeby. The woman is dressed in a colonial print apron evoking 20th-century rural Americana while the man is adorned in overalls covered by a suit jacket and carries a pitchfork. The plants on the porch of the house are mother-in-law's tongue and beefsteak begonia,

which also appear in Wood's 1929 portrait of his mother, Woman with Plants.

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Banksy

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Tattoos plus typos

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