George Krause | Wimberley High School Texans football player, 2005, from his ongoing series of Sfumato Portraits

Frederic Leighton, Portrait of May Sartoris, c. 1860, oil on canvas, Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas

Steve McCurry, Kunduz, Afghanistan, 2002

Read this shirt. Seriously. Yikes.

Scott Gentling, Portrait of Jane Goodall, dry brush watercolor, 1990, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas

grainsoflight:

Lewis Hine | Power house mechanic working on steam pump, 1920

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Santa Rufina, c. 1665, oil on canvas, Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas

34 years ago today, Elvis ascended to Heaven and took the halo away from Jesus.

classicfilmheroines:

Sophia Loren in 1955
Photographed by David Seymour “Chim”

Image Source: Flickr

blakegopnik:

Daily Pic: This week looks set to be all about portraits - with Lawrence’s Regency dandy yesterday, and now this one of Bill and Melinda Gates by the artist John Friedman, a commission now unveiled at the National Portrait Gallery. Here’s my contention about it: That some pictures need to be art, and others are best when they aren’t, and that this portrait falls into the latter category. It does a better job of pointing more people to its subject when it fits all the oil-on-canvas cliches of official portraiture. More artfulness would be beside the point, and distracting. In a sense, by obeying the cliches it becomes that much more transparent, almost like a snapshot photo whose features we read through. That is, it comes to function more like a document and less like fancy fine art. And that, weirdly, is how some of the best fine art is working these days.

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