This Is An Ancient Gesture

[cryingpenelope]

If I had it my way, I'd own a single black silk gown and a thousand art-nouveau statement necklaces.

[luxocultapress]

[triste-le-roy]

The Readers (Santiago Caruso, early 21st century).

[thunderstruck9]

Karin Kneffel (German, b. 1957), Untitled, 1989. Oil on canvas, 18 x 24 cm.

[himelodi]

“They danced with shawls which were woven of mist and moonshine.” 

- one of Harry Clarke’s illustrations for Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen(1916)

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[magictransistor]

M.E. Chevreul. The Laws of Contrast of Colour. 1861.

[centuriespast]

CARRACCI, Annibale The Penitent Magdalen in a Landscape (with detail) c. 1598 Oil on copper Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

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[skeleton-hiccups]

autumnal bliss

[jonasgrossmann]

walter trier, 1946 @ fulltable

[templeofapelles]

John Singer Sargent El Jaleo study, c. 1882

[hello-artistspeaking]

Every day in London there is beautiful, absinthe-coloured weather. Is that enough to lure you here?

John Singer Sargent to Claude Monet, December 1894 (via hello-artistspeaking)

[ghibilis]

[bettydraperlookingpissed]

Fuck

[xxhorace]

Elizabeth Taylor

[latingolightly-blog-blog]

Neely O'Hara: A Day in the Life

[takahikohayashi]

D-9.Mar.2016 acrlyic pigment ink on gampi paper 42x28cm HAYASHI Takahiko 林孝彦

[dappledwithshadow]

Leonard Baskin (American, 1922-2000)