Lusting Flesh and Stone

The ancient masculine beauty captured in Barberini's Faun ,




Is displayed today in living flesh,


Beauty transfered through time,


Both in flesh and Barberini's stone.

Lusting Athletic Themes

Discobolus by Costas Dimitriadis

The description below is from TIME MAGAZINE,
Monday, May. 31, 1926


Probably the world's most famed statue of an athlete is of a discobolus (discus-thrower), by Myron, ancient Greek, restored by Professor Furtwangler. His restoration places the missile-hurler* in exceedingly poor "form," according to modern proceedings.


At the Olympic games two summers ago, another Greek sculptor fashioned a discobolus, along more authentic lines, with models who knew all the facts and intricacies of discus-throwing. He entered it in world competition at Paris, won the grand prize. Last week the statue was unveiled in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a gift to the city by one Ery Kehaya, who designated it "an expression of gratitude from Greeks living in New York to the city that has given them opportunity." The bronze athlete is the work of Costas Dimitriadis, famed Hellene.



*Throwing the discus was revived with the Olympic Games (1896) and has been a recognized event in athletic competitions since that time, becoming very popular in the U. S. The stone discus of antiquity weighed from 4 to 5 lb., although one of bronze was uncovered weighing 8 lb. Thrower Baker, Swarthmore, last week heaved the modern 4%½ lb. discus 139 ft., a new Middle Atlantic record. The world's record (156 ft. 1⅜ in.) was made by J. Duncan of the U. S. on May 27, 1912.

Lusting Insight Beyond the Figurative

"I am particularly interested in portraying the dualities present in all human experience." ___ Aleksander Balos


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Thirsting to Know the Creator

Many times when scouring the web for beautiful art,
I come upon an unsigned creation. Today's post is such
a find.

Inspirational 2 ___ Sculptural Results

Beyond Prometheus

One famous work, the gilded statue of Prometheus bringing fire to mankind, located at New York's Rockefeller Center, can sometimes halt, rather than stimulate, our craving to see more an artist's work. Thus today's entry, also by Paul Howard Manship,
The Four Elements___Earth,Fire,Water, and Wind__1914__ is presented.

Lusting a Bacchanal

The Youth of Zeus 1905


Odysseus Fights with Irus 1903

Raucous, spirited, celebration without shame or guilt.
Two energetic paintings by Lovis Corinth.

Broken Shield ___ by Giacomo Ceccarelli

Gleaming masculine torso, lustrous smoothness,
Thou art so sensuously displayed.
Beckoning my hand to touch each rise and fall,
At once knowing that each stroke will supply,
Increasing beauty, once invisible to mind's eye.

More of Mr.Ceccarelli's artistry can be found here.

Nude 8 ___ by Raul Võsandi

Seemingly random, crescent shaped, strokes on paper,
clustering deeper here, more lonely there, arranged by intellect's breeze,
much like rust colored snowflakes, creating layers and drifts upon the landscape,
like an image imagined in a cloud, Nude 8 takes form.

Simple technique, simple forms, beautifully executed.

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Lusting Simplicity

Three simple,yet elegant,
female nudes by artist Michael McMenemy.

Innocent Beauty

Bathing, 1911, by Duncan Grant 1885-1978

From Vase to Relief

Inspirational Result