Between 1948 and 1986, during his career as a prison guard, Danzig Baldaev made over 3,000 drawings of tattoos. They were his gateway into a secret world in which he acted as ethnographer, recording the rituals of a closed society. The icons and tribal languages he documented are artful, distasteful, sexually explicit and provocative, reflecting as they do the lives, status and traditions of the convicts that wore them. Baldaev made comprehensive notes about each tattoo, which he then carefully reproduced in his tiny St. Petersburg flat. The resulting exquisitely detailed ink drawings are accompanied with his handwritten notes and signature on the reverse, the paper is yellowed with age, and carries Baldaev’s stamp, giving the drawings a visceral temporality – almost like skin.
The Russian Criminal Tattoo Archive documents Russian criminals’ tattoos and their coded meanings — and includes tattoo drawings by prison guard Danzig Baldaev and photographs by Sergei Vasiliev. This set of photographs by Vasiliev were taken in between 1989 and 1993 in prisons and reform settlements across Chelyabinsk, Nizhny Tagil, Perm and St Petersburg. Reading about the symbolism behind these makes these even more incredible.
After our earlier post, we suddenly had a Witchblade-high and had to scour the internet to find out who she was, and lo and behold we found Jacqueline Goehner.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jacqueline-Goehner/121603254562357
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Displays from Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
Displays from Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
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You know there’s something wrong with the world when porn and cosplay makes better costumes than Hollywood.
Gerald Parel
The awesome sketches of Leinil Francis Yu
Mondo released it’s Man of Steel poster, and it’s epic! Shown here with their other masterpieces.
Derek Gores continues to astound!
Maxim Portugal brings us Lorenza Zorer.
More Art Monday: Good-bye, Game of Thrones
With the season finale of “Game of Thrones” approaching, our staff’s many fans devote today’s More Art Monday to gory gear and decorative pieces inspired by the realm of Westeros and Essos. Brought to you by ART 24/7: http://bit.ly/uNbzcA
Image 1: “Chicken Bone Throne,” Date unknown
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein
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http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/312282.htmlImage 2: Portions of an Armor of Maximilian I of Austria, for use in the German joust of peace (Gestech), c. 1494
Armor made by Lorenz Helmschmid, German (active Augsburg)
http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/44242.htmlImage 3: Cuirass (Torso Defense), c. 1580
German. Made for Prince Nikolaus Christoph Radziwill, 1548 - 1616, or his cousin Prince Christoph Nikolaus Radziwill I, 1543 - 1603.
http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/71294.htmlImage 4: Tuck (Panzerstecher), c. 1500-1525
German or Austrian
http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/211938.htmlImage 5: Crossbow, c. 1470 - 1500
Austrian
http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/214732.htmlImage 7: Visored Sallet, c. 1510Attributed to the armorer Hans Maystetter, active Innsbruck and Graz, recorded 1508 to 1533
http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/71728.htmlImage 8: Coin Necklace, 19th century
Turkish
http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/272992.htmlImage 9: Arm Reliquary of Saint Babylas, 1467
German
http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/52231.htmlImage 10: Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite National Park
Ansel Adams, American, 1902 - 1984
http://bit.ly/16gpTS6
According to artist Cosmonail, the life of a superhero god is a lonely one. This series of comic cook inspired art called “A Lonely God” features characters living a solitary life.
Michael Bay has released the new vehicle modes for Transformers 4.
More are sure to be released soon. Follow them at http://michaelbay.com/
Timothy Anderson’s Star Wars pulp fiction covers
Realistic Voltron characters by Josh Burns
http://joshburnsart.blogspot.com
