Some art for Valentine's Day


	Some art for Valentine's Day
JohnWaterman
2-13-2009 4:26 PM
462 views
2 Comments |
Add a Comment
2-13-2009 4:36 PM
ellington
A'HH LOVES SWEET DREAM WERE I 21 AGAIN.
2-14-2009 5:00 PM
Elfrida
The Kiss is just so beautiful!
Happy Valentine's Day everyone.
Login to Comment. Not a member yet? Sign up
Today's Top Clips

visit the Top Clips page
View the Top Clips from February 13, 2009
Embed This Clip In Your Site...
<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/c23efa59-8279-45fa-9f23-7daf4fb0e1d8/981B9DD7-8B60-413A-BCFC-61966501008D/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2009/feb/13/art-valentines-day-love" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2009/feb/13/art-valentines-day-love" style="font-size: 11px;">www.guardian.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2009/feb/13/art-valentines-day-love"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.guardian.co.uk/img/68B0DEDA-BAA4-46A0-87D1-3D28057D22BB" alt="Auguste Rodin's The Kiss" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2009/feb/13/art-valentines-day-love"><P>My <A href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2009/feb/13/art-valentines-day?picture=343217013">top five works of art for Valentine's Day</A> are a bit soft-centred, some might say, a bit corny and a bit cliched even - but that's Valentine's Day for you. Hardcore Japanese erotic photography is not the right thing to put on a Valentine's card or to see on a first date - is it? Who knows.</P></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2009/feb/13/art-valentines-day?picture=343217013" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2009/feb/13/art-valentines-day?picture=343217013" style="font-size: 11px;">www.guardian.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2009/feb/13/art-valentines-day?picture=343217013"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.guardian.co.uk/img/41C22C8D-79C7-4157-B633-A4C01AEC2BE1" alt="Valentine's Day art: Fragonard's The Swing" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2009/feb/13/art-valentines-day?picture=343217013"><P class="number"></p> <P>The Swing</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2009/feb/13/art-valentines-day?picture=343217013">Fragonard's melting garden vista through which a woman swings to a perfumed fop's delight may well be the most flirtatious painting of all time</blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2009/feb/13/art-valentines-day?picture=343217015" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2009/feb/13/art-valentines-day?picture=343217015" style="font-size: 11px;">www.guardian.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2009/feb/13/art-valentines-day?picture=343217015"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.guardian.co.uk/img/28C181A1-EE42-404C-A482-00437C188BBA" alt="Valentine's Day art: François Gérard's Cupid and Psyche" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2009/feb/13/art-valentines-day?picture=343217015"><P class="number"></p> <P>Cupid and Psyche (1798) by François Gérard</P></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2009/feb/13/art-valentines-day?picture=343219740" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2009/feb/13/art-valentines-day?picture=343219740" style="font-size: 11px;">www.guardian.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2009/feb/13/art-valentines-day?picture=343219740"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.guardian.co.uk/img/F9DAB15A-A33D-4F51-9192-51A83197A930" alt="Valentine's Day art: Botticelli's Venus and Mars" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2009/feb/13/art-valentines-day?picture=343219740">Venus and Mars (1485) by Sandro Botticelli</blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2009/feb/13/art-valentines-day?picture=343217017" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2009/feb/13/art-valentines-day?picture=343217017" style="font-size: 11px;">www.guardian.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2009/feb/13/art-valentines-day?picture=343217017"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.guardian.co.uk/img/492556EA-936B-4FF4-B82E-FFABD93A3F11" alt="Valentine's Day art: William Hogarth's Before" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2009/feb/13/art-valentines-day?picture=343217017">Before (1732) by William Hogarth</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2009/feb/13/art-valentines-day?picture=343217017"> two young lovers whispering sweet nothings in a deliberate pastiche of fancy French rococo paintings of gardens of love ...</blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2009/feb/13/art-valentines-day?picture=343217019" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2009/feb/13/art-valentines-day?picture=343217019" style="font-size: 11px;">www.guardian.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2009/feb/13/art-valentines-day?picture=343217019"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.guardian.co.uk/img/C9A1AC4C-B0D5-41ED-9BDF-8845FA60065C" alt="Valentine's Day art: William Hogarth's After" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2009/feb/13/art-valentines-day?picture=343217019">After (1732) by William Hogarth</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2009/feb/13/art-valentines-day?picture=343217019"> ... the silken clothes are in disarray, the loosened shirt spilling over the man's thigh a none-too-subtle allusion to his spent state</blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2009/feb/13/art-valentines-day?picture=343217011" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2009/feb/13/art-valentines-day?picture=343217011" style="font-size: 11px;">www.guardian.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2009/feb/13/art-valentines-day?picture=343217011"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.guardian.co.uk/img/A53D07AB-47F7-4A7C-8984-8715DAE3F043" alt="Valentine's Day art: Auguste Rodin's The Kiss" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2009/feb/13/art-valentines-day?picture=343217011"><P class="number"></p> <P>The Kiss (1901-4) by Rodin in Tate Modern. Rodin's enthusiasm is infectious, his sensuality awe-inspiring - this is modern art's most perfect Valentine</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/981B9DD7-8B60-413A-BCFC-61966501008D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
New from the makers of Clipmarks: Amplify.com - Don't just share the news...Amplify it!
Clipmarks: Home; New Clips; Top Clips; Dashboard
Popular Topics: News; Life; Science; Technology; Entertainment
Get Started: Sign Up; Install Clipping Tool; How Clipping Works; Clip-to-Blog™; ClipSearch
Tools and Resources: FAQ; ClipWeek; Top Clippers; Top Tags; Site Map
About Clipmarks: About Us; Contact; Copyright; Privacy; EULA
Search Options

Today's Top Clips
