Hi! I'm Karianne alias the blogger Mammadamen. I love books, media, ballerinas and feminism. This is my blog for collecting and sharing thoughts, dreams and things that inspire. Visit for daily updates!
31 posts tagged illustration
Art: Frida Kahlo meets classic 40′s movies in Paul X. Johnson Illustrations. One on my wall, please!
wuthering heights- family tree (by Lizzy Stewart)
I love these embroidered book cover designs for Penguin Books (via Black*Eiffel: Jillian Tamaki)
I’ll do shoes for the lady who lunches, but it would be, like, a really nasty lunch, talking about men.” —Christian Louboutin
I like Mydeadpony’s mixing of digital media, painting and sketches and drawing on watercolors, splotches and textures.
I love the new American online magazine Matchbook. They have asked swedish illustrator Kristina Hultkrantz to imagine what treasures one might have found in Audrey Hepburn’s handbag. This is the result!
Beautiful minimalist photography by Spanish photographer Yosigo. This one is Paris.
500 Years of Female Portraits in Western Art
by Philip Scott Johnson. Recommended!
Music: Bach’s Sarabande from Suite for Solo Cello No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007 by Yo-Yo Ma
1. 0:00Archangel (Angel of the Golden Locks), Novgorod School, Russia, 2nd half of the 12th c.
2. 0:0 1La Scapigliata (The Lady of the Dishevelled Hair) Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)1508
3. 0:03The Madonna of the Carnation, Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)1478-80
4. 0:05Mona Lisa(La Gioconda). Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)1503-05
5. 0:07 Lady with a Unicorn, Raphael (1483-1520)c.1505
6. 0:09The Birth of Venus, Sandro Botticelli (1444-1510)1485
7. 0:11Portrait of a Young Woman, Titian (Tiziano Vecellio)(c.1490-1576) 1536
8. 0:13Portrait of a Lady as St Lucy, Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio (1467-1516)1500
9. 0:14Sacred Conversation, Giovanni Bellini (1430-1516)1490
10. 0:16Profane Love (Vanity), Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) (c.1490-1576)1514-1515
11. 0:18Judith with the Head of Holofernes, Titian (Tiziano Vecellio)
(c.1490-1576 c.1515
12. 0:20Mary Magdalene, Pietro Perugino (1448-1523)1500
13. 0:22Portrait of Ginevra de’ Benci, Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)1476
14. 0:24Lady with an Ermine Portrait of Cecilia Gallerani, Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)1483 - 1490
15. 0:26Virgin Annunciate Maria der Verkündigung, Antonello da Messina (c.1430-1479)1476
16. 0:28La Donna Velata (Woman with a Veil), Raphael (1483-1520)c.1514
17. 0:30Portrait of a Young Venetian Woman or Red-haired Woman from Venice, Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528)1505
18. 0:32Portrait of a Woman, Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553)1526
19. 0:34Porträt der Maria Maddalena Portinari, Hans Memling (1430/40-1494)1470
20. 0:35Lais of Corinth, Hans Holbein the Younger (1497-1543)1526
21. 0:37Portrait of Elsbeth Tucher, Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528)1499
22. 0:39Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792)1775-76
23. 0:41 Jane, Countess of Harrington, Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792)1778
24. 0:43Mrs. John Hale, Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792)1762-64
25. 0:44 Mrs. Abington, Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792)1764-1773
26. 0:46Charlotte-Aglaé d’Orléans Duchesse de Modène, Pierre Gobert(1622-1744)1744
27. 0:48Portrait of Suzanna Huygens, Caspar Netscher (1639-1684)1667-69
28. 0:50 The Marquise de Seignelay and Two of her Children, Pierre Mignard (1612-1695)1691
29. 0:52 Madame Victoire de France, Jean-Marc Nattier (1685-1766)1748
30. 0:54Portrait of an Unknown Woman in a Blue Dress with Yellow Trimmings, Fyodor Rokotov(1735-1808)1760s
31. 0:56Le Chapeau de Paille (The Straw Hat), Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640)c. 1626
32. 0:58 Self-Portrait in a Straw Hat, Élisabeth Louise Vigée-Le Brun (1755-1842)1782
33. 1:00 Portrait of Lady-in-Waiting to the Infanta Isabella, Peter Paul Rubens(1577-1640) Mid-1620s
34. 1:01 Lady with a Flower in her Hair, El Greco (1541-1614)c1590-1600
35. 1:03Madame Barbe de Rimsky-Korsakov, Franz Xaver Winterhalter( 1805-1873)1864
36. 1:05Young Housewife, Alexei Vasilievich Tyranov (1808-1859)1840s
37. 1:07 Portrait of M. I. Lopukhina, Vladimir Lukich Borovikovs (1757-1825)1797
38. 1:09Portrait of V. S. Putyatina, Alexey Gavrilovich Venetsianov (1780-1847)1815-1816
39. 1:11Madame Pasteur, Antoine-Jean Gros (1771-1835)1795-96
40. 1:13Amalie von Schintling, Joseph Karl Stieler (1781-1858) 1831
41. 1:15 Portrait of M. A. Kikina, Orest Adamovich Kiprensky (1782-1836)1816
42. 1:17 Woman with a Pearl, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796-1875)c1869
43. 1:18The Reading. Edouard Manet (1832-1883)1869
44. 1:20Berthe Morisot, Edouard Manet (1832-1883)1872
45. 1:22 Charlotte Dubourg, Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904)1882
46. 1:24 Portrait of an Italian Woman, Alexei Vasilievich Tyranov (1808-1859)1851
47. 1:26 Princess Albert de Broglie, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780-1867)1851-53
48. 1:28 An Elegant Beauty, William Clark Wontner (1857-1930)
49. 1:30 Souvenir, William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905)1895
50. 1:31La Belle Liseuse (The Beautiful Reader), Lêon François Comerre (1850-1916)
51. 1:33Modesti, William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905)1902
52. 1:35Pavonia, Lord Frederick Leighton (1830-1896)1858-59
53. 1:37A Portrait of a Young Lady, Eugene de Blaas (1843-1931)
54. 1:39 Musette. Eugene de Blaas (1843-1931)1900
55. 1:41 An Arab Beauty, Lêon François Comerre (1850-1916)
56. 1:43 Girl Braiding Her Hair (Suzanne Valadon), Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)1885
57. 1:45 Portrait of Madame Henriot, Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)1877
58. 1:47 Two Sisters on the Terrace, Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)1881
59. 1:48 Portrait of the Actress Jeanne Samary, Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)1878
60. 1:50 La Chevelure Young Woman Braiding her Hair, Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)1876
61. 1:52, Blonde Nude, Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)1882
62. 1:54La Promenade, Édouard Manet (1832-1883)c. 1880
63. 1:56 Portrait of Maggie Wilson, Frank Duveneck (1848-1919)1898
64. 1:58 Woman with a Pearl Necklace in a Loge, Mary Cassatt (1844-1926)1879
65. 2:00 Ideal Head, Julian Alden Weir(1852-1919)
66. 2:01Portrait of a Woman, Paul Cesar Helleu (1859-1927)1909
672:03Ols Maria, Anders Zorn (1860-1920)1918
68. 2:05 The Artist, Alphonse Maria Mucha(1860-1939)1920
69. 2:07 The Matyr of the Solway, John Everett Millais (1829-1896)1871
70. 2:09 Madeleine Bernard, Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)1888
71. 2:11Woman with a Hat, Henri Matisse (1869-1954)1905
72. 2:13Madras Rouge, Henri Matisse (1869-1954)1907
73. 2:15 Cocolo, Francis Picabia(1879-1953)1936-38
74. 2:16 Ritratto di Signora di Klimt, Gustav Klimt (1862-1918)1916-17
75. 2:18, La fleur (serigraph)Henri Matisse (1869-1954)1937
76. 2:20 Portrait of Lydia Delectorskaya, the Artist’s Secretary, Henri Matisse (1869-1954)1947
77. 2:22 The Mask, Louis Welden Hawkins (1849-1910)1905
78 2:24 Les Fleurs du Mal (Flowers of Evil), Rene Magritte (1898-1967)1946
79. 2:26, F Champenois, Alphonse Maria Mucha (1860-1939)1897
80. 2:28 Cycles Perfecta, Alphonse Maria Mica (1860-1939)1902
81. 2:30 Raphaelesque Head Exploding, Salvador Dali (1904-1989)1951
82. 2:31Head Bombarded with Grains of Wheat, Salvador Dali (1904-1989)1954
83. 2:33 Apparition of a Face with a Fruit Dish on a Beach, Salvador Dali (1904-1989)1938
84. 2:35Woman Torso, Kazimir Malevich (1878-1935)1928-1932
85. 2:37 American Beauty (The Movie Star), Knud Merrild (1894-1954)1928
86. 2:39 Portrait of Lunia Czechowska, Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920)1919
87. 2:41 Tumblers (Mother and Son), Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)1905
88. 2:43 Maternity, Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)1905
89. 2:45, Nude Woman In A Red Armchair, Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)1932
90, 2:47 Portrait of Françoise, Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)1946
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Some of the books listed in NYTimes Book Review Top ten 2010 (by Mammadamen)
I hope to blog more about these books tomorrow!
There is seriously no greater thing in the world than Anna Karina gifs.
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