The theme on this week's Thursday photo Challenge website is "Beauty" and I was tempted to send this in - either ironically or as 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder'. Mostly ironically I think. Anyway, it's a very straightforward photo of a sculpture by Picasso, snapped at the Picasso Museum in Antibes. I do not know the title of the sculpture. I shall call it Fred, and see if it blinks.

Atkinson Grimshaw: An Autumn Idyll, 1885

Some downright nostalgia here - Britains catalogues from the late 60s, or in other words my childhood. Britains made model soldiers from about 1893, and diversified later on, especially into farm animals & machinery, and zoo animals. If interested, a bit more detail on James Opie. I think they were recently taken over by another company, but I can't find the info on the Web. Britains as we knew them no longer appears to exist.

Gerhard Richter: Korn, 1982

Joost Swarte: Jazzman
Joost Swarte - Dutch cartoonist & graphic designer.

Jose Bedia: Piango Piango Llego Lejos (2000-1)
Bedia is an installation artist from Cuba, born 1959.
"Piango Piango Llego Lejos" means "Step by Step, We Arrive Very Far"

Anselm Kiefer - The Red Sea

Olivier Rebufa: Film X (1994)

Pierre Bonnard: Standing Nude, 1920

Rene Magritte: The Human Condition, 1935
This has been our desktop for quite a time now, but it's almost buried under icons at the moment. Strange to see it all clear again!

Banjos - from Miquel.com

Gallen-Kallela: Askeli Valdemar. Finnish painter (1865-1931)

Lyonel Feininger - The Green Bridge, 1916

Andre Kertesz: Meudon, Paris 1928

Jeno Paizs Goebel - The Golden Age, 1931.
Find more works by this Hungarian artist under Paizs Goebel at Fine Arts in Hungary.

Railings at Preston Park, Brighton.
Thursday Challenge: Parks

Elbowroom

Here's some tasters of the sort of thing you'll find on my doodle & drawings blog. Find out more about it on Elbowroom.

John Nash: The Cornfield, 1918

Kandinsky: Yellow-Red-Blue, 1925

Navitrolla - High as a kite, 2001. Browse this Estonian's oil painting galleries for more giraffes. And mushrooms.

Red Grooms: Looking Along Broadway Towards Grace Church, 1991

Hurrah for Asterix! This is a free desktop picture, which you can get here. Not sure where all your icons would go.

Rene Magritte: The Listening Room

Max Ernst - rienplus

This is the back of one of my old home-made magazines from the late 70s. The back-cover jam disguise was mostly my brother's work.

by Jean Dubuffet