Hendrick Avercamp
Hendrick Avercamp was a Dutch painter. He was deaf and mute.
Luther Blissett
Luther Blissett is a multiple-use name, an "open reputation" informally adopted and shared by hundreds of artists and social activists all over Europe and South America since 1994. In Italy, between 1994 and 1999, the Luther Blissett Project (an organized network within the open community sharing the "Luther Blissett" identity) became an extremely popular phenomenon. An example: January 1995, Harry Kipper, a British conceptual artist, disappears at the Italo-Slovenian border while touring Europe on a mountain bike, allegedly with the purpose of tracing the word 'ART' on the map of the continent. The victim of the prank is a famous missing person's prime-time show on the Italian state television. They send out a crew and spend taxpayers' money to look for a person that never existed. They go as far as London, where novelist Stewart Home and Richard Essex of the London Psychogeographical Association pose as close friends of Kipper's. The hoax goes on until "Luther Blissett" claims responsibility for it.
Antonio Ligabue
Antonio Ligabue was and was an Italian painter, one of the most important naïve artists of the 20th century.
L’invenzione della bellezza
Antonio Canova: L'invenzione della bellezza is a book published by Franco Maria Ricci. The cover features a marble bas-relief showing a detail from the work Le Grazie e Venere danzano davanti a Marte by Canova, created in statuary marble from the Fantiscritti quarry in Carrara, the same that supplied Antonio Canova. The bas-relief is set in velvet brocade with a gold thread weave. Inside, special velata pure cotton handmade paper, enhanced with an Antonio Canova watermark, carries press-printed texts by authors from the same period as Canova. The counterpoint to these texts are 26 plates showing tempere by Canova, all applied by hand and screen and litho printed, together with 5 etchings and 77 photographs of works by Canova.
Nikifor
Nikifor was a Polish folk and naïve painter. He painted over forty thousand pictures - on sheets of paper, pages of notebooks, cigarette cartons, and even on scraps of paper glued together. The topics of his art include self-portraits and panoramas of Krynica, with its spas and Orthodox and Catholic churches. Underestimated for most of his life, in his late days he became one of the most famous primitivist painters.
The Swimming Hole
The Swimming Hole painting by the American artist Thomas Eakins. He was the first American artist to portray one of the few occasions in 19th-century life when nudity was on display.
Giorgio Morandi
Giorgio Morandi was an Italian painter who specialized in still life. Federico Fellini paid tribute to him in his film La Dolce Vita, which featured Morandi's paintings.
Voices of Silence
Voices of Silence by Andre Malraux is a philosophical meditation on art as a supreme expression of human creativity and as one that enables man to transcend the meaningless absurdity and insignificance of his own condition.
View of Delft
View of Delft is an oil painting by Johannes Vermeer, painted ca. 1660–1661.
Acéphale
Acéphale is both a public review created by Georges Bataille (which numbered five issues, from 1936 to 1939) and a secret and esoteric society formed by Bataille and some other members who had sworn to keep silence.