Musings on Art

Passionate about the fine arts, classic and contemporary. I also try to post architecture, cityscapes, landscapes, sketches, quotes, and the ocassional pictures of wishful thinking.

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[habituallychic]

(via Habitually Chic® » Blue Monday: 18 January 2021)

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Jean Arp, Constellation with Five White Forms and Two Black, Variation III, 1932, oil on wood Guggenheim

[pintoras]

Sigrid Hjertén (Swedish, 1885 - 1948): On the beach (1934) (via Bukowskis)

[goodreadss]

Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.

Aristotle (via goodreadss)

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Petrus Christus, A Goldsmith in his shop, 1449

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Petrus Christus (c. 1410/1420 – 1475/1476) was an Early Netherlandish painter active in Bruges from 1444, where, along with Hans Memling, he became the leading painter after the death of Jan van Eyck.

[alongtimealone]

Paul Klee - Sicilian Landscape, 1924 at Barnes Foundation Philadelphia PA

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Water Lily Pond 1919

Claude Monet

[books0977]

The White Review (La Revue blanche), 1894. Pierre Bonnard (French, 1867-1947). Lithographed poster. MoMA.

Bonnard used as his model Misia Godebska Natanson Sert. La Revue blanche was a Parisian periodical that published work by avant-garde writers and included prints by contemporary artists. This and Bonnard’s other posters bear many of the same design hallmarks: unmodulated color, a playful depiction of flattened space, and a decorative handling of silhouettes and textures.

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Julio Larraz (Cuban, b. 1944), In Our Constellation, 2014. Oil on canvas, 180.7 x 151.8 cm.

via lilithsplace

[anon-i-mus]

“The sacred nothingness from which we all came is not oblivion or an empty vacuum of space; this fundamental emptiness can be said to be the zero-point field of unmanifested, Pure Potentiality (Source Awareness).”   ~Anon I mus

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[rickstevensart]

J. W. Tristram | Trees by Moonlight | 1930 | Watercolour | 10 x 14"

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The Doges’ Palace 1908

Claude Monet

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Psych2go features various psychological findings and myths. In the future, psych2go attempts to include sources to posts for the for the purpose of generating discussions and commentaries. This will give readers a chance to critically examine psychology. 

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And the need to read is like an awful raging hunger.

Susan Sontag, from a diary entry featured in As Consciousness Is Harnessed To Flesh: Journals & Notebooks, 1964 - 1980 (via violentwavesofemotion)

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And the need to read is like an awful raging hunger.

Susan Sontag, from a diary entry featured in As Consciousness Is Harnessed To Flesh: Journals & Notebooks, 1964 - 1980 (via violentwavesofemotion)