til death do us part

art history and classics student looking at the delightful, the macabre, and the delightfully macabre

[thecollectibles]

The Lady of the Lake by Teresa Ramos

[captainstevieart]

I drew a bunch of different kind of pumpkins :D 

[paganpillar]

Illustrated by: Jost Amman. Apollo, ca. 1580.

[thecollectibles]

Van Gogh And His Sunflowers by terry wei

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[thunderstruck9]

Eric Roux-Fontaine (French, b. 1966), A country in your eyes. Mixed media on canvas, 129.5 x 120 cm.

[thecollectibles]

Agony by Vetarmora

[ancientsstudies]

Could willingly waste my time in it.

[cottaqecore]

source: motherthemountain

[dtochomorocho]

Elizabeth Floyd (Contemporary American painter), Forsythia and Books

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mount massive asylum aesthetics

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[bookofthenewsun]

Napkin angels 1, 2, and 3

[simena]

Philip Alexius de László (detail)

[keymintt]

cathedral

[delightfulmacabre]

Hayefune tea bowl, Chojiro, c. 1590 A.D.

This hand moulded clay bowl is one of thousands of Chojiro’s tea sets. Working alongside the tea master Rikyū, the bowl exemplifies Zen Buddhism’s influence on the tea ceremony, from the large cracks throughout the bowl, repaired with a dark lacquer, and the scorch mark from the incredibly high temperatures of Chojiro’s kiln, we see a distinct awareness and appreciation for the inadequate and the aged.  Taking a step away from the precursory Pureland Buddhism, Japanese Zen Buddhism formulates a grounded nature as elements of the Indigenous Shintoism become more influential. Nature, insufficiency, imperfection, and external factors (causing error) are praised within the tea ceremony as participants are encouraged to contemplate within themselves - and objects demonstrating damage or age can assist said contemplation - “what did this bowl (or other object) look like before breaking?” “How did this break occur?”  Many of Chojiro’s pottery was glazed with local river pebbles (cf. atmospheric glazing), however this bowl merely maintains its bare terracotta form. The colours of the bowl compliment the green tea within, allowing the beholder to gaze into it, and further into himself. 

[faun-grove]

unicorn out of captivity, 2022

[nynph-desiree]

Monarch butterflies 🦋