remnants of khwaabon

hello, I still exist.

[baremyart]

“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.”

— Pablo Picasso

[mothersofmyheart-deactivated202]

“However bad life is, what’s important is to make something interesting out of it. And that has a lot to do with the physical world, with looking at stuff, snow and light and the smell of your screen door and whatever constitutes your phenomenal existence from moment to moment. How consoling—that this stuff goes on and that you can keep thinking about it and making that into something on the page.”

— Anne Carson explains an idea that she and Alice Munro have in common (attachment to the physical world and the details in life), from The Art of Poetry No. 88, Paris Review  (via podencos)

[quotemadness]

“I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.”

— Arthur Rubinstien

[seaoflove]

Mary Oliver, from The Fourth Sign of the Zodiac

I know, you never intended to be in this world.

But you’re in it all the same.

so why not get started immediately.

I mean, belonging to it.

There is so much to admire, to weep over.

And to write music or poems about.

Bless the feet that take you to and fro.

Bless the eyes and the listening ears.

Bless the tongue, the marvel of taste.

Bless touching.

You could live a hundred years, it’s happened.

Or not.

I am speaking from the fortunate platform

of many years,

none of which, I think, I ever wasted.

Do you need a prod?

Do you need a little darkness to get you going?

Let me be urgent as a knife, then,

and remind you of Keats,

so single of purpose and thinking, for a while,

he had a lifetime

[baremyart]

“I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of ‘madness’. Then: I’d arrange flowers, all day long, I’d paint; pain, love and tenderness, I would laugh as much as I feel like at the stupidity of others, and they would all say: ‘Poor thing, she’s crazy!’ (Above all I would laugh at my own stupidity.) I would build my world which while I lived, would be in agreement with all the worlds. The day, or the hour, or the minute that I lived would be mine and everyone else’s – my madness would not be an escape from ‘reality’.”

— Frida Kahlo

[baremyart]

My favourite painters or some of them handwriting:

Amedeo Modigliani Frida Kahlo Vincent van Gogh Leonardo da Vinci Claude Monet Michelangelo Edvard Munch Egon Schiele

Inspired by: x

[baremyart]

Water lilies by Claude Monet

[baremyart]

Jacques-Louis David: The Death of Marat, 1793

[detailsdetales]

The Death of Marat (1793)

Jacques-Louis David

[thegetty]

Art History Glossary Masterpost 

That’s a wrap on our weekly Art History Glossary series. Peruse this helpful list of art and architecture terms.

A:

arcade

amulet

B:

bacchus

baroque

C:

cameo

chiaroscuro

contrapposto

D:

daguerreotype

diptych

E:

écorché

ephemera

eucharist

F:

façade

fresco

G:

gargoyle

gorgon

H:

hatching

hypostyle

I:

iconoclasm

idealize

illumination

J:

juxtapose

K:

keystone

kiln

L:

limestone

M:

mannerism

modeling

mosaic

N:

necropolis

nymph

O:

obelisk

P:

painterly

pediment

pietà

Q:

quatrefoil

R:

repoussé

rococo

S:

self-portrait

stele

stigmata

T:

tempera

trident

triumphal arch

U:

underdrawing

underpainting

ushabti

V:

vanishing point

vanitas

W:

woodcut

[thegetty]

fresco:

noun | fres·co | freskō

Painting on lime plaster, either dry (dry fresco or fresco secco) or wet (true or buon fresco). In the latter method the pigments are mixed with water and become chemically bound to the freshly laid lime plaster. Also, a painting executed in either method. 

Art History Glossary: A helpful list of art and architecture terms to support curious rookies this back to school season.

[ec-phrasis]

Amrita Sher-Gil, Sumair, 1936

[darkmacademia]

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‘mystery of love’ by sufjan stevens but you’re picking flowers in your countryside backyard while your neighbor who you’re secretly in love with plays music you can hear through their open window. (headphones recommended) (youtube)

[mesogeios]

“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.”

— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

[seaoflove]

ken faulks / alisa aidarova / félix valloton / milton avery / david barnes / pierre boncompain

[myfairynuffstuff]

Antonio Tonelli (b.1934) - The Big Comet. 2004. Acrylic on canvas.

[vizuart]

Vincent Van Gogh - Roses (1890)