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I think that I’d live happily in a Vincent Van Gogh painting ♡

listening to creep on the radio in the car and after it ended the host just sighed and went “well, im sorry you feel that way thom” and then played the next song

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I have never heard of Norman Rockwell. I don’t understand anything about art. But this picture shook me and caused a storm of emotions. It is called Breaking Home Ties, 1954

The boy is going to a Uni and wearing his best outfit; the Uni sticker is on his luggage, even his tie and his socks are the colours of the sticker. He is excited and impatient. The father - obviously a farmer, is sitting at the worn farm truck with a flag and a storm lamp, because their place is so small the train won’t normally stop there, so the father will need to “catch” the train and signal with the light and the flag for it to stop.

His son will never come back to the farm.

I think I understand why this picture sold at 15,4 million dollars in 2006.

millie1098

Great paintings by Norman Rockwell of everyday Americana.

striving-artist

Norman Rockwell specialized in exactly this, OP. You can look at almost all of his paintings and find a story in it. Some are sweet, some are poignant, some just show family. They are all stories, and they all have story woven into every single detail.

And because it is my favorite, this is “Shiner”

lankyguy

Rockwell’s mentor was A.C. Leyendecker best known for his illustrations of the Arrow Collar shirt man. The model was Leyendecker’s lover. Rockwell was a pallbearer at Leyendecker’s funeral.

vaspider

Rockwell’s paintings also dealt quite a bit with social issues as he got older and after the Saturday Evening Post made him remove a Black person from an image bc Black people “could only depicted in service jobs”.

As a result he left the Post & created (among other works) The Problem We All Live With and Murder in Mississippi.

astrodael

the idea that your friends won't like you if you're too weird is wrong you just need better friends for example one time I told a friend whenever I was losing my mind I laid down on the floor under my desk and stared at it until I was better and next time she visited me she taped a bag of salami snacks to the underside of my desk with a message saying "going insane all by yourself, handsome?" which I only saw months later when I had a breakdown. that's friendship.

aropride

"never trust how you feel abt ur life after 9pm" is a spring & summer & fall rule. for winter it's never trust how u feel abt ur life after 4pm

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me and my friends when we’re generic thugs

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honestly reblog if you’re in a heinous mood

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endofeva1997

Do you like Marina and the Diamonds? Her early work really captures the essence of mentally fraught young womanhood, but she truly came into her own voice with Electra Heart. Some dislike its more pop-oriented direction, but I think the album is fantastic.

poetry-siir

If not, winter by sappho // ampio orizzonte by ettore tito // lesbos by sylvia plath.

expressions-of-nature

Carrizo Plain, CA by Marlin Harms

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every sci-fi franchise needs a Las Vegas planet

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I’m always fascinated when Las Vegas Planet also seems to be totally lawless and indifferent to murder, theft, and kidnapping, but the infrastructure is intact and functional and the galactic tourism industry seems to be thriving. I want to know more.

low-shear-velocity-province

It's very easy to say that magic doesn't exist, but ultimately computers work by channeling lightning through a series of crystals, so who's really to say.

leopharry

I have decided on a new constellation. I call it The Bees. If you look up at the night sky and see all those sparkly dots, congratulations. You see The Bees. I have just made astrology 10000x easier, you’re welcome.