A Damn Fine Collection Of 21 Fascinating Photos
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Deconstructing the Bull. Picasso’s The Bull, created in late 1945, reveals how a great artist turns an idea into a masterpiece. Starting the series with a realistic drawing of a bull, Picasso used the following 10 lithographs to mutate and dissect its form, stripping away details and stylizing its anatomy. In the end, Picasso turned a highly literal representation of a bull into an intertwined series of abstract elements that balance and counterbalance each other to make up a powerful and expressive work of art. The last image is a single sinuous line that is still unmistakably a bull.
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When naval personnel spotted an elephant 8 miles from shore, it was struggling to keep just its trunk above the waves as the rest of its body was underwater. Navy divers tied ropes to the elephant and called for two additional boats to help gently pull it back to shore – a 12-hour rescue mission
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Forced standing was a form of treatment for some patients in 19th century mental institutions. This is a real photo of such treatment taken in the year 1890
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Sperm donation extractor. Some hospitals in China are implementing these bizarrely gross machines to help patients who are donating semen to overcome “embarrassment” and to make their experience more enjoyable.
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A picture of every extraterrestrial body that robots from mankind have landed on and photographed
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This is the pizza order one woman used to get police to her home, where she was being held hostage by her boyfriend
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Cops Release Disturbing Photos Of Couple Who Overdosed On Heroin While Driving With A 4-Year-Old. The boy was put in child protective services, and his mother, identified as Rhonda Pasek, along with driver James Pasek, face a variety of charges.
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