Things I've Deemed More Important Than Homework

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Nicola Samori (b. 1977). Italian.

Neo-Baroque??

Nicola Samori is fucking incredible. He works out of Italy, and he’s managed to nail the style of the Old Masters: his exhibitions contain everything from beautiful Baroque saints to Flemish still lifes — all painted now, in the modern era, in his studio. And that would be amazing in and of itself, but his work is so much more than simple reproduction. See, once he’s finished with a painting, or once he’s adapted one that’s been previously created, he takes a scalpel to it, a spatula, or a square of sandpaper, and begins to peel it apart. He flays painted skin right off his subjects’ bones.

Sometimes the “destruction” of the images asks the audience to think about what, exactly, the painting communicates when it’s whole. Other times it adds a strange level of corporeality to religious works, or gives portraits a darkly spiritual dimention they never had before. 

He’s said in interviews that he views the layers of paint on the canvas as analogous to the muscle and tissue of the human body, and that by wearing it away, he changes the identity of the paintings themselves.

Dark and sometimes chilling as it is, I think his work is genuinely brilliant, and he’s one of my favorite living artists.

(Long story short, here’s his website, go check it out!)

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THOSE BOOTS. And wow that Roof terrace…. Something dreams are made of. 

The ever-elusive CasualBatch appears after years of hiding…

yes! BOOTS, CasualBatch, now if we could just work on that hair we’d be all set… it must be really hard to deal with being that long and a BITCH to curl since he isn’t doing that more. That should be his go-to! But I really like the beautiful blue button down and black jeans :-)

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About Time (2013)

A new Richard Curtis directed British romcom in which Bill Weasley and Regina George fall in love and there’s time travel? And Bill Nighy? YES PLEASE.

A BRITISH ROMCOM ABOUT TIME TRAVEL. OH MY STARS. PERFECTION IS REAL.

 … but wasn’t she already the Time Traveler’s Wife?

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Briar Mark

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