Aesthetica Ludens

Then, I say, let us first and foremost have works! and this means practice! practice! practice! The necessary faith will come later—be certain of that!

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Photo by Joshua Weiner

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Château de Muzot (also known as Maison Muzot or Muzot Castle) is a 13th-century fortified manor house located near Veyras in Switzerland’s Rhone Valley. In 1921, it was purchased by Swiss merchant and arts patron Werner Reinhart who then invited Rilke to live there rent-free. It was at Muzot, during a few weeks in February 1922, that Rilke after a long silence caused by severe depression finally completed the Duino Elegies and wrote the entire Sonnets to Orpheus (source).

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untitled by heddaselder on Flickr.

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La Guardiana del Huevo negro by Leonor Fini, 1955. Oil on canvas.

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Painting: James Abbot McNeill Whistler, Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket,

Oil on canvas, 

Phillips Collection, Washington

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Painting: Vincent van Gogh, Evening Landscape, 1885

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Steps leading to the lonesome tree

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Dissolving in a winter moor

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Works by Remedios Varo

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Heman Chong, Hunger, Knut Hamsun (2011) (via whitehotel)

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Månglitter by Sven Jonson, 1948. Oil on canvas.

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"The Temptation os St Anthony", Hieronymous Bosch. c.1516

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Durer self-portrait at the age of thirteen - Albrecht Dürer