Perchance to Dream

[frostedmagnolias]

Navy Beaded Afternoon Dress

c. 1907-1912

Museum of Vancouver

[holespoles]

Piero Fornasetti, "Lunario del Sole", 1951

[urgetocreate]

Kobayashi Kiyochika (Japanese 1847-1915), Fireflies by the Kinu River, 1930, Color woodblock print

[huariqueje]

Fireflies - Thomas Sarrantonio .

American , b. 1954 -

Oil on panel , 6 x 6 in.

[thouartadeadthing]

[saltyocean]

holly chippindale

[yorkeantiquetextiles]

Fukusa (Gift Cover), Early Meiji period (1868–1912), 1868-1883, Japan

Mon side: silk, warp-faced, weft-ribbed plain weave (shioze); appliquéd with paper covered wood forms; embroidered with silk, laid threads couched along form edges; lined with silk, plain weave (heiken); sewn with front and lining matched in size (Tachikiri awase) 73 x 66 cm (28 3/4 x 26 in.) Gift of Mary V. and Ralph E. Hays, 2001.217.  Art Institute of Chicago.

[il-castagno-press]

A page of forget-me-nots from my current sketchbook.

[metmuseum]

Belt buckle. ca. 3rd–7th century CE. Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1934 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/323089

[thoodleoo]

i think maybe my new favorite category of roman intaglio art is "insects doing human things" because it's so indicative of the human need for whimsy. now take a look at this 1st century BC/AD intaglio of a grasshopper in a chariot pulled by butterflies

[valentineua]

Corner of a Garden (By the Lake) (1977) - Wu Guanzhong (1919–2010)

[ruknowhere]

“Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.”

― John Muir, Art by Sam Cannon

[rfsnyder]

Gordon Louis Mortensen (b. 1938), "Minnesota, Sumac

[florianpainkesblog]

Picture Puzzle

2019-03-28 / 7.743

[nobrashfestivity]

Helen Frankenthaler, Deep Sun

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[weepingwidar]

Mohammed Sami (Iraqi, 1984) - The Weeping Lines (2022)

[djofudd]

dunraven beach, south wales. 2026.