(Roughly) Daily

Camille Corot – Recollections of Mortefontaine

Artist Etienne Lavie has taken photos of Paris in which advertisements in the background are replaced with classical paintings…

Pierre-Auguste Renoir – La Lecture

See more of the series– “OMG Who Stole My Ads?”– at Lavie’s site.

[via Laughing Squid]

* George Bernard Shaw

###

As we appreciate the finer things, we might recall that it was on this date in 1886 that Thomas Eakins, the realist painter, photographer, sculptor, and teacher widely regarded as one of the most important artists in American art history, resigned from the Philadelphia Academy of Art.  Eakins, almost obsessively interesting in the precise rendering of the human form, had stirred scandal in the school by employing a nude male model in one of his classes.

Eakins’ self-portrait

source