[holohedral]

wildflowers thriving on the side of the road i see you i love you girls

[james-tissot-paintings]

-The Creation-

[centuriespast]

FRIEDRICH, Caspar David Wreck in the Moonlight c. 1835 Oil on canvas, 31,3 x 42,5 cm Nationalgalerie, Berlin

[intopermanence]

I must warn you, you must handle me delicately: I am covered with a mantle of iridescence as easily destroyed as a dust flower, and although I am quite willing to be arrested, if you handle me roughly you will lose much of the evidence. I don't want you to taint that fragile coat of astonishing colours created by my illusions, which no painter has ever been able to reproduce.

Anaïs Nin, from “A Spy in the House of Love”

[istanton]

[megairea]

“You give me a rose whose breath is sweet, Whose petals are poison”

— Langston Hughes, from Nonette.

[fanfanlemoko]

"Famine", John Charles Dollman, 1904.

[2colde]

much like a beautiful horse i like salt and roaming freely

[drakontomalloi]

Jean Barbault - Women Draped in White. N.d. 

[random-brushstrokes]

Albert Pinkham Ryder - Constance (1896)

 The subject for "Constance" comes from Chaucer's "The Man of Law's Tale." Constance, daughter of the Emperor of Rome, and her infant son were treacherously abandoned at sea in a boat without rudder or sail. They miraculously were kept alive for five years until their boat drifted back to Rome. Ryder may have considered the story a counterpart to the Old Testament story of Jonah and the whale, a painting of which he had completed before he began "Constance." The tale from Chaucer may also have served as a literary link between his biblical and Shakespearian subjects. As first glance, Ryder's "Constance" appears somewhat static and empty, conveying little of the emotional impact of Chaucer's story. However, on closer examination the composition is complex. The entire picture is arranged to focus the viewer's attention on two specific passages: Constance's expression of despair as she lies in the boat clutching her child, and the subtle aureole of benevolent light that surrounds the boat, outside Constance's range of vision. Early photographs of this painting reveal that both these details were once much more evident than they appear now, victim to the accelerated deterioration that has plagued most of Ryder's paintings. (source)

[macrolit]

“Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.”

— In Search of Lost Time, Marcel Proust (b. 10 July 1871)

[mrsclarkkent]

“Calm and queenly, comes the summer nymph, July—crowned with azure, clothed with splendour,”

— John Critchley Prince, from Dreams & Realities In Verse and Prose; “July,”

[satanasaeternus]

The Fall of the Damned, detail - Dieric Bouts (1468)

[huariqueje]

The Foam of the Ending Day - Michel Buylen , 2015.

Belgian, b. 1953 -

Acrylic on panel , 30 x 40 cm.

[mmaisonnnn]

[huariqueje]

Little crab  -   Michel Buylen.

Belgian, b. 1953 -

Oil on panel ,20 x 20 cm.

[wordx]

“My crime was feeling everything too deeply, my punishment was surviving it.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky