Category Art

Apr 5 2010

10 Famously Reclusive Artists and Authors

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Because of her vivacious career as an iconic pin-up model and performance artist, many from the current generation are shocked to find out that the fun and flirty Bettie Page spent decades wallowing in obscurity and reclusiveness. A victim of depression and schizophrenia, she retreated into herself following her meteoric ascent as a famous model, actress, and burlesque dancer that ended abruptly in 1957. Some attribute it to her conversion to Christianity, others to the obscenity trials that branded the erotic photography and videos as offensive material (though most of it would of course be considered PG-13 by today’s standards), still others to her failing mental health.

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Apr 4 2010

Park of the Monsters

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The Park of the Monsters (Parco dei Mostri in Italian), also named Garden of Bomarzo, is a monumental complex located in Bomarzo, Lazio, Italy. The gardens were created during the Italian Renaissance, in the 16th century.

Apr 4 2010

The Temple of Heaven and Earth

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“Going to a temple means a lot of things to a lot of people. For dogs and cats, it’s a place where you can be fed. For some humans, it’s a place of peace to pray in, in which to seek redemption, a place of great beauty that inspires, a reminder to do good deeds. For me, in the case of this one temple, it restored my wanderlust, my faith in travel and photography, and my faith in the human race.”

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Apr 4 2010

Deadly Weapons – Peaceful Solutions

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A sculpture at the Detroit Zoo composed of Bullets and Gold Leaf.

Creator Mary Engel states ” Elephants have become endangered due to the “gold” of the elephant, its ivory tusks. The bullets which make this sculpture are beautiful but menacing, as they remind us of humans’ destruction of exotic creatures”.

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