Before the widely acclaimed ‘Les Demoiselles d'Avignon’ by Pablo Picasso (1907; originally titled ‘The Brothel of Avignon’), there was the amazing collection of the cubist, psychedelic Beatus of Liébana:
The Great Whore gets drunk with one of the Kings of the Earth. From the Facundus Beatus, Commentarium in Apocalypsin. 1047 AD. España.
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“These miniaturists of the tenth century, who anticipated their millennium, had already practiced the glaze technique. Gauguin, preceded by Matisse in the countercurves, with their fluid contours, invented the realistic expressiveness of Picasso in the Señoritas de Avignon. And in fact, until the arrival of the art of cubist portraits we would not see again things like face and front profile, the animal disproportion of the painter of Guernica, anticipated by these apocalyptic illuminators.” —Jacques Fontaine, The Pre-Romanesque Hispanic Art
All Dressed Up: Artist Photographs His Shibas Amidst Beautiful Flowers
After a long day at work when you come home and get greeted by your pet, all happy and excited just to see you, that moment just melts your heart, your furry friend wiping off any trace of tiredness that you might have had.
