welovepaintings: Zdzislaw Beksinski
houseofmind: Metabolomic Eye by Bryan Williams Jones This is the photograph that took first place in the 2011 Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge. In the image above, each color represents a different subset of cells that are present in the mouse eye. The winner employed a technique called computational molecular phenotyping (CMP) to map out the different kinds of tissue by probing out the concentrations of common organic molecules, in this case by using antibodies that stained against taurine (red) , glutamine (green) and glutamate (blue).  Thus, the distribution of these molecules results in the colorful and informative image seen above.  Click on the image to learn about the other photographs and categories. 
Letter from Picasso to Gertrude Stein
theeducatedfieldnegro: shaktipower: gasp Damn, I’m conflicted … I don’t know if I should devote my time looking at her or the shyt load of vinyl records behind her. Guess I shall manage both.. lol
kimvirus: Takahiro Kimura
welovepaintings: The Head of Gerda Auerbach, Frank (b Berlin, 29 Apr. 1931). German-born painter who moved to England in 1939 as a refugee from Nazism and became a British citizen in 1947. He studied under David Bomberg, whom he found an inspiring teacher. His work is in the Expressionist vein of Bomberg’s late paintings and is remarkable for its use of extreme impasto, so thick that the paint at times seems modelled rather than brushed. He has a reputation as one of the leading British painters of his time, although some critics find his pictures muddy and overworked. Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
erikangstrom: Doba Afolabi
paperimages: Tricia Scott, The Huntress
welovepaintings: £160m ($250m) Cézanne: Highest price ever for a painting as Qatari royal family trumps world dealers for ’The Card Players’
lolkt: hey this looks familiar