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David Bowie - The Visionary Of The Future by Daniel Arrhakis (2016)
With the music : David Bowie - Wild Is The Wind
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David Robert Jones (8 January 1947 – 10 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie. Was an English singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, arranger, painter and actor.
My personal homage to this incredible artist that was a visionary of the future and arts ... a great lost for our World !
Public images were used, for the moon the image Astronaut Buzz Aldrin on the moon (1969) by NASA (modified for this work) ) in Public Domain :
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Portrait of David Bowie (Modified for this work) based in a image of the film Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983) directed by Nagisa Ôshima; Production Co: Recorded Picture Company (RPC), National Film Trustees, Oshima Productions and others.
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This is the ultimate iconic artwork of Michelangelo. While I do not have the opportunity of seeing in person the original sculpture, which is in marble (...and displayed also in Florence), this replica in bronze cast overlooking the city of Florence still mesmerizes me and many others who have come to admire it.
This was taken at Piazzale Michelangelo, Florence, Italy, as part of a series of excursion tours during my Mediterranean Cruise
David is a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture created between 1501 and 1504, by Italian artist Michelangelo. It is a 5.17-metre marble statue of a standing male nude. The statue represents the Biblical hero David, a favoured subject in the art of Florence. The original sculpture was moved indoors in 1873 to the Accademia Gallery in Florence, where it attracts many visitors. [Source: Wikipedia]
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David
Michelangelo's David -
ArtistMichelangelo
Yearc. 1501 – June 8, 1504
MediumMarble sculpture
SubjectBiblical David
Dimensions517 cm × 199 cm (17 ft × 6.5 ft)
LocationGalleria dell'Accademia, Florence, Italy
Preceded byPietà
Followed byMadonna of Bruges
David is a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture, created between 1501 and 1504 by the Italian artist Michelangelo. With a height of 5.17-metre (17 ft 0 in) the David was the first colossal marble statue after antiquity, a precedent for the 16th century and beyond. David was originally commissioned as one of a series of statues of prophets to be positioned along the roofline of the east end of Florence Cathedral, but was instead placed in the public square in front of the Palazzo della Signoria, the seat of civic government in Florence, where it was unveiled on 8 September 1504. In 1873, the statue was moved to the Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence, and in 1910 replaced at the original location by a replica.
The biblical figure David was a favoured subject in the art of Florence.[1] Because of the nature of the figure it represented, the statue soon came to symbolize the defence of civil liberties embodied in the Republic of Florence, an independent city-state threatened on all sides by more powerful rival states and by the hegemony of the Medici family.
History
Commission
The history of the statue begins before Michelangelo's work on it from 1501 to 1504.[2] Prior to Michelangelo's involvement, the Overseers of the Office of Works of Florence Cathedral, consisting mostly of members of the influential woolen cloth guild, the Arte della Lana, had plans to commission a series of twelve large sculptures for the buttresses of the cathedral.[3] In 1410, Donatello made the first of the statues, a figure of Joshua in terracotta. A figure of Hercules, also in terracotta, was commissioned from the Florentine sculptor Agostino di Duccio in 1463 and was made perhaps under Donatello's direction.[4] Eager to continue their project, in 1464, the operai contracted Agostino[5] to create a sculpture of David.
A block of marble was provided from a quarry in Carrara, a town in the Apuan Alps in northern Tuscany. Agostino only got as far as beginning to shape the legs, feet, torso, roughing out some drapery, and probably gouging a hole between the legs. His association with the project ceased, for reasons unknown, with the death of Donatello in 1466, and ten years later Antonio Rossellino was commissioned to take up where Agostino had left off. Rossellino's contract was terminated soon thereafter, and the block of marble remained neglected for 26 years, all the while exposed to the elements in the yard of the cathedral workshop. This was of great concern to the opera authorities, as such a large piece of marble was not only costly, but represented a large amount of labour and difficulty in its transportation to Florence.
In 1500, an inventory of the cathedral workshops described the piece as "a certain figure of marble called David, badly blocked out and supine."[6] A year later, documents showed that the operai were determined to find an artist who could take this large piece of marble and turn it into a finished work of art. They ordered the block of stone, which they called 'the giant',[7] "raised on its feet" so that a master experienced in this kind of work might examine it and express an opinion. Though Leonardo da Vinci among others were consulted, and Andrea Sansovino was also keen to get the commission, it was Michelangelo, at 26 years of age, who convinced the operai that he deserved the commission.[8] On 16 August 1501, Michelangelo was given the official contract to undertake this challenging new task. It said:
"... the Consuls of the Arte della Lana and the Lords Overseers being met Overseers, have chosen as sculptor to the said Cathedral the worthy master, Michelangelo, the son of Lodovico Buonarrotti, a citizen of Florence, to the end that he may make, finish and bring to perfection the male figure known as the Giant, nine braccia in height, already blocked out in marble by Maestro Agostino grande, of Florence, and badly blocked; and now stored in the workshops of the Cathedral. The work shall be completed within the period and term of two years next ensuing, beginning from the first day of September..."[5]
David is a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture, created between 1501 and 1504 by the Italian artist Michelangelo.
The statue is massive at 17 feet tall and more than 12,000 pounds, and is sculpted from a single block of white Carrara marble. The block of marble used to carve "David" had been worked on more than 50 years earlier by Donatello. That project was abandoned because the marble was said to have been flawed.
It's a god-awful small affair
To the girl with the mousy hair
But her mummy is yelling "No"
And her daddy has told her to go
But her friend is nowhere to be seen
Now she walks through her sunken dream
To the seat with the clearest view
And she's hooked to the silver screen
But the film is a saddening bore
For she's lived it ten times or more
She could spit in the eyes of fools
As they ask her to focus on
Sailors fighting in the dance hall
Oh man! Look at those cavemen go
It's the freakiest show
Take a look at the Lawman
Beating up the wrong guy
Oh man! Wonder if he'll ever know
He's in the best selling show
Is there life on Mars? . . .
Pic a mix of David and a very old pic made of me from SL
You see this image all over Valencia. The artist is David Limon and I liked this one with the contrasting derelict wall.
New David Choe piece from his Character Assassination show opening tonight at Fifty24SF Gallery in San Francisco. Photo courtesy of the gallery.
Davey Reynolds in his great looking Penrite Oils sponsored EREBUS ZB Holden Commodore.
Sydney Motorsport Park, New South Wales, Australia
David Geffen Hall, the 2,200-seat auditorium opened in 1962 and is the home of the New York Philharmonic. The facility, designed by Max Abramovitz, was originally named Philharmonic Hall and was renamed Avery Fisher Hall in honor of philanthropist Avery Fisher, who donated $10.5 million to the orchestra in 1973. In November 2014, Lincoln Center officials announced Fisher's name would be removed so that naming rights could be sold to the highest bidder as part of a $500 million fund-raising campaign to refurbish the venue. In 2015, the Hall acquired its present name after David Geffen donated $100 million to Lincoln Center.
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (popularly known as Lincoln Center), 16.3-acre complex of buildings, has thirty indoor and outdoor facilities. These include internationally renowned performing-arts organizations including the New York Philharmonic, the Metropolitan Opera, the New York City Ballet, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and the Juilliard School.
David Helbock´s Random/Control feat. Filippa Gojo - Jazz & the City Salzburg - 16.10.2025 - Szene Salzburg
Besetzung:
Filippa Gojo: vocals;
David Helbock: piano;
Johannes Bär: brass, drums, beatbox;
Andreas Broger: reeds;
David Heather -
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David is a masterpiece of Italian Renaissance sculpture, created from 1501 to 1504 by Michelangelo. With a height of 17 ft., David was the first colossal marble statue after antiquity, a precedent for the 16th century and beyond. David was originally commissioned as one of a series of statues of prophets to be positioned along the roofline of the east end of Florence Cathedral, but was instead placed in the public square in front of the Palazzo della Signoria, the seat of civic government in Florence, where it was unveiled in 1504. In 1873, the statue was moved to the Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence, and in 1910 replaced at the original location by a replica.
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475-1564), known as Michelangelo, was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance. Born in the Republic of Florence, his work was inspired by models from classical antiquity and had a lasting influence on Western art. Michelangelo is one of the best-documented artists of the 16th century and is lauded as the most accomplished artist of his era.