the king is dead and the king was picasso

honestly art is the only constant \ oracle + empathic alchemist \ over any of your shit \ "witch, scholar, poet, dreamer, and the rest,"

[doctors-star]

highly recommend keeping a small portrait of a historical figure who met a grisly end on your work desk. for perspective.

[doctors-star]

me: oh thomas cromwell, we're really in it now. every day i get emails.

the postcard of thomas cromwell i keep on my desk: i was on committees with the duke of norfolk. and they beheaded me.

me: yep. good point.

[babesies]

[academic-vampire]

𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆 𝑰 𝒄𝒓𝒂𝒗𝒆 ☕️

[archliches]

people always try to play the "but you're a lesbian" card whenever i say odd shit about men and i think that's because people are too cowardly to accept the truth: these are pure, objective observations. i don't have a leg in this race. when i say Gene Wilder has a kind of evil warlock's raw sexual charisma in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory you can't write me off as being too horny. because i'm literally not. i'm making a statement of fact here. and you'll just have to cope with it.

[bread-lowph]

😭 (source: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/jon-fosses-search-for-peace)

[darkcomedies]

my favorite thing about the painting Saturn Devouring His Son is that Goya didn’t name any of his Black Paintings and died before their discovery so we just assumed that’s what the painting was depicting. like we’re just hoping that this painting we found in Goya’s dining room of a terrible giant eating a beheaded corpse is a depiction of Saturn eating his kid. praying, even.

[forestdenizen]

Svend Rasmussen Svendsen

[dame-de-pique]

J. Ashby-Sterry, Boudoir ballads (London: Chatto and Windus, 1876)

[dame-de-pique]

Autume beauties along Niagara's precipitous banka- looking up towards the falls", 1902

[dame-de-pique]

Geraldine Moodie - Seed of Water Plant. Height 10 Inches, c.1906-1909

[dame-de-pique]

Suisse, Lac de Thoune, Coucher du soleil, c.1925

[imintheleaves]

[weary-hearted-art]

Frances Gearhart, Twilight, c.1930. Color block print on wove Japanese paper

[expressions-of-nature]

by Leire Unzueta

Otzarreta Forest, Spain

[write-on-world]

[for-the-freaks-and-geeks]

[yeoldegodzilla]

Pieter Bruegel the Elder painted Godzilla 4 times between 1556 and 1563.

[pocket-deer-belly]

hey op pieter bruegel the elder lived in northern belgium he would've never seen a mountain i have reason to believe these images may have been faked

[cryptotheism]

These were clearly painted during his conservatorship at Liege under George of Austria. Liege has a wonderful view of the Ardennes.

[cryptotheism]

Okay to be fair, these are all paintings of Godzilla's razing of Thimister-Clermont, which occurred in 1496, nearly 30 years before Bruegel was born, and St. Lambert's Cathedral was not damaged by Godzilla, it was destroyed by Austrian artillery.

[disgustinggf]