*John Currin paints paleness

The translucency of the skin and it’s pallor is masterfully depicted by Currin

*Rodolphe Parente

Architecture and design

*Studio Pepe, Neo Memphis (and other work)

All work here!

* Caio Fern, layered disembodiments

Stunning figurative works by the Brazilian painter, Caio Fern! (More at Saatchi)

* Salvador Dali paints Gala Diakonova

I really love these images. There is something about Gala that is really captivating. Light and intense at the same time.

Dali never underplays her strength.

*Francesca Woodman

*Sterling Ruby, plush autonomism

Just adoring this work

*melting marks together, Sir John Everett Millais

I adore this exact type of laying down strokes of paint. Almost no absolute defined lines — with forms seeming to just emerge out of blackness.

The Violet’s Message , 1854

The Knight Errant, 1870

John Henry Newman (1881) 

*the geometry of Carpaccio

Wonderful composition with these pyramids intermingling alongside the rectilinear shapes 

Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple Vittore Carpaccio

*Alvise Vivarini, precision and poise

Look at the hands.. the delicacy of it

(Madonna and Child Enthroned between Saints Louis of Toulouse, Anthony of Padua, Anna, Joachim, Francis, and Bernardino of Siena) — circle late 1400s