cleaning (museu imaginário)

da excelente galeria de Meisai Lee no flickr. a portrait of-


“Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.” Arnold Newman, citado na Unless You Will #19.

two Peggies in Venice

imagens das imagens de Manuel Casimiro, em 1979.

'the human face not far behind'

Lucian Freud
John Updike

Yes, the body is a hideous thing,
the feet and genitals especially,
the human face not far behind. Blue veins
make snakes on the backs of hands, and mar
the marbled glassy massiveness of thighs.
Such clotted weight’s worth seeing after centuries
(Pygmalion to Canova) of the nude
as spirit’s outer form, a white flame: Psyche.

How wonderfully St. Gaudens’ slim Diana
stands balanced on one foot, in air, moon-cool,
forever! But no, flesh drags us down,
its mottled earth the painter’s avid ground,
earth innocently ugly, sound asleep,
poor nakedness, sunk angel, sack of phlegm.

'Ella', portraits

de Gerhard Richter.

e aqui.
ambas de uma exposição no National Portrait Gallery em 2009.

'o último retratista', portraits

os de Leonardo. os de Rembrandt. os de Picasso. os de Lucian Freud (o 'último'). os de Rineke Dijkstra. os de Annie Lebowitz. e os Living Portraits de Doublehead.



há tanto por onde me perder

the non-Rembrandt

Man with a Golden Helmet- and two Picasso's.

(um Picasso por 300 dólares, até 2 de Dezembro)