Just Weird
Grow Your Artsy Mustache For Movember!
Movember November is a month of raising awareness about men’s health, in particular about prostate cancer, testicular cancer, and men’s suicide. I cannot grow a mustache myself but I want to join this fantastic campaign by showing you stuff I would grow if I could:
A Gentle architectural artsy mustache
Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Portrait of a Man with a Moustache (Supposed Self Portrait), c.1630, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
A Mysterious Mona Lisa mustache (and a goatee)
Marcel Duchamp, L.H.O.O.Q, Mona Lisa with moustache, 1919, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
A Surrealist mustache
Salvador Dali, Dalí’s Moustache, 1950, private collection
A Triple Van Gogh mustache
Vincent van Gogh, Two Self-Portraits and Several Details, 1886, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
A Handlebar van Dyck style
Anthony van Dyck, Self-portrait with a sunflower, 1632–33, collection of the Duke of Westminster
A Sombre Symbolist mustache
Edvard Munch, Self Portrait with Skeleton Arm, 1895, The British Museum, London
A Desperate French Fork
Gustave Courbet, The Desperate Man (Self-Portrait), 1845, private collection
A poetic mustache
Paula Modersohn-Becker, Portrait of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1906, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
A hanging mustache
Jeff Koons, Moustache, © Jeff Koons, 2003, source: artist’s website
See also “Bearded Paintings From Art History“. Enjoy!
