Go. There is nothing stopping you. You were born to dance.Tumblr (3.0; @artofthejackal)http://artofthejackal.tumblr.com/<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2nkdmwBu41r83cz5o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Anish Kapoor, one of the most talented artists of our time, seamlessly connects science and sculpture in his gorgeous works</p> <p>High Museum, Permanent Collection</p>http://artofthejackal.tumblr.com/post/21303194864http://artofthejackal.tumblr.com/post/21303194864Tue, 17 Apr 2012 22:03:22 -0400Anish KapoorContemporary art<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2nk56Gvcc1r83cz5o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><span id="body_0_content_2_artistSpan">    El Anatsui, </span><span id="body_0_content_2_nationalitySpan">Ghanaian, born 1944</span></p> <blockquote> <p><strong><span id="body_0_content_2_titleSpan"> Taago, </span><span id="body_0_content_2_dateSpan">2006</span></strong></p> <p><span id="body_0_content_2_mediumSpan">Aluminum and copper wire, </span><span id="body_0_content_2_dimensionsSpan">82 x 124 inches<br/></span><span><span></span></span></p> </blockquote> <p><span><span>One in a series of works he termed “metal cloth” sculptures. He joins<strong> bits of aluminum from the necks and tops of discarded local liquor bottles</strong> to form a glittering textile that recalls the 1,000-year-old tradition of strip-woven cloth made by men in West Africa. Anatsui describes how he likes <em>“to work with objects that have had a lot of human use because a certain charge is imbued, or loaded into the object.”</em></span></span></p> <p><span></span><span></span></p>http://artofthejackal.tumblr.com/post/21302855884http://artofthejackal.tumblr.com/post/21302855884Tue, 17 Apr 2012 21:58:18 -0400AfricaartmetalclothliqouraluminiumGhanagoldcloth<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2njkhlEvi1r83cz5o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Thomas Houseago, British artist, born 1972</p> <blockquote> <p>Hood, Head, 2009:  fibered plaster, hemp, and plywood</p> </blockquote>http://artofthejackal.tumblr.com/post/21301994170http://artofthejackal.tumblr.com/post/21301994170Tue, 17 Apr 2012 21:45:00 -0400abstractheadsculptureplasterhempplywoodHelmethoodThomasHouseago<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2njg034tO1r83cz5o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>W. Medford Johnston</p> <p>American, born 1941</p> <blockquote> <p>Basic Masai II, 1989-1990:  Acrylic on Canvas</p> </blockquote>http://artofthejackal.tumblr.com/post/21301808035http://artofthejackal.tumblr.com/post/21301808035Tue, 17 Apr 2012 21:43:11 -0400abstractafricanartpaintingacrylicMasaiblackorangewhiteredcontemporary<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2nj3gagtF1r83cz5o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Mark Rothko</p> <p>A Transition Multiform abstraction, 1946</p> <p>Rothko believed that “child art transforms itself into primitivism, which is only the child producing a mimicry of himself.” In this manuscript, he observed that “the fact that one usually begins with drawing is already academic. We start with color.”</p>http://artofthejackal.tumblr.com/post/21301289036http://artofthejackal.tumblr.com/post/21301289036Tue, 17 Apr 2012 21:35:00 -0400Mark Rothkoorangepinkyellowabstractabstractionrejectabstract expressionismabstractpaintingoilpaint<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lgbr87Udmv1qaz1f8o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Try in silver paint next</p>http://artofthejackal.tumblr.com/post/17834440004http://artofthejackal.tumblr.com/post/17834440004Sat, 18 Feb 2012 14:01:10 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzb45tZ7O91rp9l0po1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>This reminds me of the marketplace in Mbitini</p>http://artofthejackal.tumblr.com/post/17834350467http://artofthejackal.tumblr.com/post/17834350467Sat, 18 Feb 2012 13:59:31 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzk15iOlxF1r554lco1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://loveandlightenergy.tumblr.com/post/17804822323">loveandlightenergy</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://lucifelle.tumblr.com/post/17795678257">lucifelle</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Harriet Tubman at her home in Auburn, NY in 1911.</p> </blockquote> <p>This is so awesome!</p> </blockquote> <p>If you get there before i do, Coming for to carry me home…Tell all my friends I’m comin too, coming for to carry me home…</p>http://artofthejackal.tumblr.com/post/17833904501http://artofthejackal.tumblr.com/post/17833904501Sat, 18 Feb 2012 13:51:16 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lhmeow6LGz1qgbzyto1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>This is Gorgeous</p> <blockquote> <p><em><span>Ontleding des menschelyken lichaams… by </span><span>Govard Bidloo (anatomist) and </span><span>Gérard de Lairesse (artist)</span></em></p> </blockquote>http://artofthejackal.tumblr.com/post/15219269518http://artofthejackal.tumblr.com/post/15219269518Mon, 02 Jan 2012 21:49:00 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_locpnftebZ1qgbzyto1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://morbidcircus.tumblr.com/post/7670106497/anatomical-safari-by-gunther-von-hagens">morbidcircus</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><em><span>“Anatomical Safari” by </span><span>Gunther von Hagens (pictured)</span></em></p> </blockquote>http://artofthejackal.tumblr.com/post/15218472671http://artofthejackal.tumblr.com/post/15218472671Mon, 02 Jan 2012 21:34:49 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lmltaxHusf1qjt10do1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote> <p>ITS A MERMAID FETUS</p> </blockquote>http://artofthejackal.tumblr.com/post/15217727462http://artofthejackal.tumblr.com/post/15217727462Mon, 02 Jan 2012 21:21:29 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwh6c1qJtn1r83cz5o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><div class="captions">Allison Schulnik</div> <div class="captions">Long Hair Hobo #2 - oil on canvas - 84” x 68 - 2008</div></p>http://artofthejackal.tumblr.com/post/14480137229http://artofthejackal.tumblr.com/post/14480137229Mon, 19 Dec 2011 18:52:49 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwh5hrBku11r83cz5o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><div class="captions">Allison Schulnik</div> <div class="captions">Flower Face #8 - oil on canvas - 24” x 24 - 2009</div></p>http://artofthejackal.tumblr.com/post/14479145401http://artofthejackal.tumblr.com/post/14479145401Mon, 19 Dec 2011 18:34:39 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lw9k6vSduL1qdso9jo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Gorgeous</p>http://artofthejackal.tumblr.com/post/14299162154http://artofthejackal.tumblr.com/post/14299162154Fri, 16 Dec 2011 00:51:21 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lw9gztgOAy1qeb3y6o1_500.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lw9gztgOAy1qeb3y6o2_500.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lw9gztgOAy1qeb3y6o3_500.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lw9gztgOAy1qeb3y6o4_500.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lw9gztgOAy1qeb3y6o5_500.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lw9gztgOAy1qeb3y6o6_500.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lw9gztgOAy1qeb3y6o7_500.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lw9gztgOAy1qeb3y6o8_500.gif"/><br/> <br/><p>But do you recall….?</p>http://artofthejackal.tumblr.com/post/14299134796http://artofthejackal.tumblr.com/post/14299134796Fri, 16 Dec 2011 00:50:23 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lw7f6fZhQF1r83cz5o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Mural of Legends:<br/> Guitars of Eric Clapton and Tom Petty<br/> Charleston, SC</p>http://artofthejackal.tumblr.com/post/14219985876http://artofthejackal.tumblr.com/post/14219985876Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:27:50 -0500<iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Ojt1BFZPhsA?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>some of the very best animation.</p>http://artofthejackal.tumblr.com/post/14140386755http://artofthejackal.tumblr.com/post/14140386755Mon, 12 Dec 2011 19:23:59 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lw47vdDFqz1r83cz5o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Graffiti: the last supper</p>http://artofthejackal.tumblr.com/post/14138895497http://artofthejackal.tumblr.com/post/14138895497Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:57:13 -0500<iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ZPblZa10_Pk?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>I’m hoping as many people associate The Nightmare Before Christmas and Edward Scissorhands with thier favourite Christmas films as I do…</p>http://artofthejackal.tumblr.com/post/14123706276http://artofthejackal.tumblr.com/post/14123706276Mon, 12 Dec 2011 13:18:38 -0500<iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/sqNjdWozwFU?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Tim Burton is a God</p> <p>I’m thankful for claymation:)</p>http://artofthejackal.tumblr.com/post/14123540638http://artofthejackal.tumblr.com/post/14123540638Mon, 12 Dec 2011 13:13:28 -0500