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suicideblonde:

Object (1936)
Meret Oppenheim

Oppenheim’s fur-lined teacup is perhaps the single most notorious Surrealist object. Its subtle perversity was inspired by a conversation between Oppenheim, Pablo Picasso, and the photographer Dora Maar at a Paris café: admiring Oppenheim’s fur-trimmed bracelets, Picasso remarked that one could cover just about anything with fur. “Even this cup and saucer,” Oppenheim replied.

In the 1930s, many Surrealist artists were arranging found objects in bizarre combinations that challenged reason and summoned unconscious and poetic associations. Object—titled Le Déjeuner en fourrure (The lunch in fur ) by the Surrealist leader André Breton—is a cup and saucer that was purchased at a Paris department store and lined with the pelt of a Chinese gazelle. The work takes advantage of differences in the varieties of sensual pleasure: fur may delight the touch but it repels the tongue. And a cup and spoon, of course, are made to be put in the mouth.

A small concave object covered with fur, Object may also have a sexual connotation and politics: working in a male-dominated art world, perhaps Oppenheim was mocking the prevailing “masculinity” of sculpture, which conventionally adopts a hard substance and vertical orientation that can be seen as almost absurdly self-referential. Chic, wry, and simultaneously attractive and disturbing, Object is shrewdly and quietly aggressive.

from MoMA

Found on “how to dress in vancouver” blog..

suicideblonde:

Family Feast (2009) by Barnaby Braford

From his The Good, The Bad, The Belle series, remade junk store figurines exploring notions of lost youth.

suicideblonde:

Hey, wanna feel really awkward and uncomfortable?

Paulscheer’s Michael Jackson auction photos

Extreme narcissism, creppy worship of childern, and a whole buncha shit that should have never seen the light of day.  At least the commentary is good!

(Srsly, though, how ever did the parents of the kids visiting Neverland Ranch EVER think to try to sue him for child molestation after wandering around all this shit)

Man on woman…NO.

rapvsweden:

Pictured: NOT my roommate Deren.

Deren sent this to me just now, and I don’t know what the context is but it appears this young man won a medal for his science project. Congratulations.