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Tony Notarberardino, "Donny Vomit & Heather Holliday, September 3, 2010, 12:45AM, 2024,

Silver gelatin type LE/Selenium archival print

54 x 66 in (137.2 x 167.6 cm)

Courtesy: ACA Galleries

#art #photography #design #surreal #creepy #fierce #black and white #tony notarberardino #vomit #holliday #12:45AM #acrobat

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fiercerthanyou · 6 days

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Tony Notarberardino, "Room 627 - May 20, 2011 3:45 pm, 2024,

Silver gelatin type LE/Selenium archival print

20 x 24 in (50.8 x 61 cm)

Courtesy: Aca Galleries

#art #photography #surreal #creepy #fierce #freaky #black and white #tony notarberardino #room #627 #sordid lives #chelsea hotel #new york city

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fiercerthanyou · 10 days

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Idris Khan,

Every...Bernd & Hilla Becher Spherical Type Gasholder, 2004,

Chromogenic print. 80 × 65 in. (203.2 x 165.1 cm),

Courtesy of the Artist and Sean Kelly. © Idris Khan

#art #surreal #fierce #freaky #idris khan #bernd #hilla becher #sperical #repetition #sean kelly #music #lyrical

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fiercerthanyou · 11 days

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Jerry N. Uelsmann, 'Philospher's Desk', 1976,

Gelatin silver print,

Image 31.8 x 26.5 cm. Sheet 35.5 x 27.7 cm.

Courtesy: Bukoskis

#art #photography #surreal #montage #collage #jerry uelsmann #drakroom #digital art #adobe #photoshop #dreamlike #imagery #universe #desk #philosophy #1976 #fierce #black and white #design

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fiercerthanyou · 11 days

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Denise Grünstein, 'Deja Vu', 2014,

From the series '1866',

Signed Denise Grünstein and dated 2015, numbered 3/3, verso,

C-print mounted on aluminum and framed, 82 x 102 cm.

Courtesy: Bukoskis

#photography #art #creepy #surreal #fierce #freaky #portrait #denise grunstein #déjà vu #1866 #mirror #bukoskis #finland

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fiercerthanyou · 11 days

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Anders Krisár, 'Untitled No. 3', 2003-2004,

Signed Krisár and numbered 1/3 verso.

C-print mounted on acrylic glass,

40 x 50 cm.

Courtesy: Bukoskis

#art #photography #surreal #red #landscape #anders krisar #uncanny art #mystery #visual art #contemporary art #visual

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fiercerthanyou · 11 days

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Albert Watson, 'David Bowie, The Finger, New York City, 1996',

Signed Albert Watson and numbered 11/25 verso.

C-print,

Image 60.5 x 47 cm. Sheet 76 x 60 cm.

Courtesy: Bukoskis

#art #photography #fierce #finger #albert watson #david bowie #new york city #1996 #black and white #bukoskis #middle finger

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fiercerthanyou · 14 days

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Gaetano Pesce (8 November 1939 – 3 April 2024)

"Bauta," Gaetano Pesce 1988-1992, Collezione CIRVA,

Rest in Power !

#art #design #creepy #surreal #fierce #freaky #sculpture #mask #glass #glassart #rip #gaetano pesce #bauta #cirva

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fiercerthanyou · 1 month

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Banksy, "Happy Choppers," 2006,

The famously secretive Banksy painted it in early 2006 on the wall of a building in London's Shoreditch area and it was documented by his so-called 'partner-in-crime' Steve Lazarides in the first volume of the Banksy Captured book. But then it was painted over by the building's owner who feared it would create a security problem.

The building was later sold and it was only when the current owner was leafing through a book featuring Banksy art locations - a Christmas gift for his son - that he recognised one of the areas shown and realised a Banksy must be on his building. He raced there to investigate but the section of wall had since been painted black.

Courtesy: Anderson & Garland

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fiercerthanyou · 1 month

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Markus Yakovlevich Rothkowitz , “Self-Portrait” (1936),

Oil on canvas, 32 1/4 x 26 inches.

Collection of Christopher Rothko,

Markus Rothkowitz was born in 1903, in what was then the Russian Empire and what is today Latvia, but 10 years later he emigrated along with his family to the US.

They were from the educated middle class, and Markus was a brilliant youth, leaving Yale University in 1923 and joining the Art Students’ League in New York.

He was naturalized as an American citizen in 1938 and soon changed his name.

For the rest of his life he was Mark Rothko.

#art #fierce #markus rothkowitz #self portrait #1936 #mark rothko #russia #latvia #painting #history #abstract expressionism #christophe rothko #portrait #suicide

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Victor Brauner, "Sphère de la naissance" ("Sphere of Birth"), 1943,

Oil on canvas,

25 5/8 x 21 ¼ in. (65 x 54 cm.)

#art #surreal #creepy #fierce #freaky #victor brauner #sphere #birth #1943 #romania #surrealism

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Iris Barrel Apfel, Decorator and Fashion Stylist

(August 29, 1921 – March 1, 2024)

Ms. Apfel was one of the most vivacious personalities in the worlds of fashion, textiles, and interior design, she has cultivated a personal style that is both witty and exuberantly idiosyncratic.

Her originality was typically revealed in her mixing of high and low fashions—Dior haute couture with flea market finds, nineteenth-century ecclesiastical vestments with Dolce & Gabbana lizard trousers.

With remarkable panache and discernment, she combines colors, textures, and patterns without regard to period, provenance, and, ultimately, aesthetic conventions. Paradoxically, her richly layered combinations—even at their most extreme and baroque—project a boldly graphic modernity.

Iris Barrel was born on Aug. 29, 1921, in Astoria, Queens, the only child of Samuel Barrel, who owned a glass and mirror business, and his Russian-born wife, Sadye, who owned a fashion boutique.

She studied art history at New York University, then qualified to teach and did so briefly in Wisconsin before fleeing back to New York to work on Women's Wear Daily, and for interior designer Elinor Johnson, decorating apartments for resale and honing her talent for sourcing rare items before opening her own design firm. She was also an assistant to illustrator Robert Goodman.

As a distinguished collector and authority on antique fabrics, Iris Apfel has consulted on numerous restoration projects that include work at the White House that spanned nine presidencies from Harry Truman to Bill Clinton.

Along with her husband, Carl, she founded Old World Weavers, an international textile manufacturing company and ran it until they retired in 1992. The Apfels specialized in the reproduction of fabrics from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, and traveled to Europe twice a year in search of textiles they could not source in the United States.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute assembled 82 ensembles and 300 accessories from her personal collection in 2005 in a show about her called “Rara Avis”. Six years after she started her fashion line "Rara Avis" with the Home Shopping Network.

Almost overnight, Ms. Apfel became an international celebrity of pop fashion.

Ms. Apfel was seen in a television commercial for the French car DS 3, became the face of the Australian fashion brand Blue Illusion, and began a collaboration with the start-up WiseWear. A year later, Mattel created a one-of-a-kind Barbie doll in her image. Last year, she appeared in a beauty campaign for makeup with Ciaté London.

She was cover girl of Dazed and Confused, among many other publications, window display artist at Bergdorf Goodman, designer and design consultant, then signed to IMG in 2019 as a model at age 97.

Ms. Iris Apfel became a visiting professor at the University of Texas at Austin in its Division of Textiles and Apparel, teaching about imagination, craft and tangible pleasures in a world of images.

In 2018, she published “Iris Apfel: Accidental Icon,” an autobiographical collection of musings, anecdotes and observations on life and style.

Ms. Apfel’s apartments in New York and Palm Beach were full of furnishings and tchotchkes that might have come from a Luis Buñuel film: porcelain cats, plush toys, statuary, ornate vases, gilt mirrors, fake fruit, stuffed parrots, paintings by Velázquez and Jean-Baptiste Greuze, a mannequin on an ostrich.

The Museum of Lifestyle & Fashion History in Boynton Beach, Florida, is designing a building that will house a dedicated gallery of Ms. Apfel's clothes, accessories, and furnishings

Ms. Apfel’s work had a universal quality, It’s was a trend.

Rest in Power !

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fiercerthanyou · 2 months

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Dmitry Alexandrovich Markov (23 April 1982 – 16 February 2024)

Russian photographer Dmitry Markov has died at the age of 42, local media in his hometown of Pskov said Friday 16.03.2024, citing his friends.

Markov, who relied solely on an iPhone for his photography, became famous for capturing images of everyday life in Russia and its regions.

His photo of a masked riot police officer sitting under a portrait of Dictator Vladimir Putin became a symbol of the 2021 protests against the imprisonment of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny.

The photo was sold for 2 million rubles ($21,760) in an online auction, with the proceeds going to people detained or fined during the rallies in support of Navalny.

Markov had suffered from drug addiction during his life. He volunteered in an orphanage and worked as an assistant tutor at a charity that helps people with disabilities.

Markov published three books of his photography and his Instagram page with photos of Russia has more than 800,000 followers.

Rest in Power !