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[catonhottinroof-deactivated2023]

Franz von Stuck (1863 - 1928) 

Rainbow landscape, 1927

[smithsonianlibrariesarchives]

Color charts of undifferentiated (top) and specialized (bottom) plumage of different warbler species from Charles Keeler's Evolution of the colors of North American land birds (1893).

Full text here.

[ymutate]

Attributed to Dagobert Peche

Austrian, 1887–1923

Diana mit Hirsch

Medium

lace on linen

75 x 58 cm (29,5 x 22,8 in)

[redlipstickresurrected]

Fiona Finnegan (Irish, b. 1979, Newry, Ireland, based Belfast, Ireland) - How the Light Gets In, 2022, Paintings: Oil on Linen

[dailycephalopods]

Daily Cephalopod #224

[classicalcanvas]

The Ally Point, Low Tide (1882) by Claude Monet

[i-merani]

Youtube comment on Bruce Springsteen's Dancing in the Dark music video

[nemfrog]

Melanesian sea spirit. Zur Psychologie der primitiven Kunst. 1917.

[funstealer]

A hand-painted parchment, wood and hammered brass side chair by Carlo Bugatti. via Batiti Gallery

[buckskinboots]

Whale bones in Gufuskálar

[nobrashfestivity]

Louise Bourgeois

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[miamaimania]

“Untitled, no. 36 of 36” from The Fragile (2007) ⌇ Louise Bourgeois

[zegalba]

Fata Morgana

a superior mirage caused by warm air resting on patches of colder air in an atmospheric duct that acts like a refracting lens. Objects on the horizon could appear to be mirrored, distorted, or float. This form of mirage could be the reason for the Flying Dutchman Legend.

[wherepetalsbecomeprayer]

Incense smoke direction & meaning :

[thunderstruck9]

Richard Mayhew (American, 1924-2024), Delusions, 2000. Oil on canvas, 30 × 40 in. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)

[publicdomainreview]

Happy 1st of June! Here’s its entry in the beautiful Très Riches Heures, a 15th-century Book of Hours: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/labors-of-the-months-from-the-tres-riches-heures https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/labors-of-the-months-from-the-tres-riches-heures

(Scyther to the right in pink getting into the Summer spirit… 😳)