[radstudies]

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864-1901) - The Jockey, 1899

[grundoonmgnx]

Pierre Bonnard, Young Woman at Her Toilette, 1916

Oil on canvas, 61.6 × 92.08 cm

[fashionlandscapeblog]

Francis Bacon

Man in Blue IV, 1954

Oil on canvas.

[didierleclair]

Joshua Redman, jazz

[antonio-m]

Louis Fratino (American, b.1993) “Untitled”, 2023. Art Basel Berlin, 2023. oil on canvas

[nobrashfestivity]

Gustav Edolf Fjaestad Moonlight, Örebro 1897 Gouache on cream wove paper, laid down onto paperboard Signed and dated, lower right corner, in red gouache: “G Fjaestad” 60.3 × 45.7 cm (23 3/4 × 18 in.)

[coltonwbrown]

A Man with an Umbrella Stepping onto a Sidewalk, ca. 1876–77 preparatory drawing for one of the figures in the background of Paris Street; Rainy Weather Gustave Caillebotte

The Frick Collection: Source

[lilacsinthedooryard]

Akseli Gallen-Kallela (Finland, 1865-1931), 

Spring Night, 1914.

[devilishgames]

[kprchi]

Kevin Ray, “The Floating World,” encaustic, oil, and gold leaf on panels, 16 x 24 in.

[derangedrhythms]

As Sokrates tells it, your story begins the moment Eros enters you. That incursion is the biggest risk of your life. How you handle it is an index of the quality, wisdom and decorum of the things inside you. As you handle it you come into contact with what is inside you, in a sudden and startling way. You perceive what you are, what you lack, what you could be. What is this mode of perception, so different from ordinary perception that it is well described as madness? How is it that when you fall in love you feel as if suddenly you are seeing the world as it really is? A mood of knowledge floats out over your life. You seem to know what is real and what is not. Something is lifting you toward an understanding so complete and clear it makes you jubilant. This mood is no delusion, in Sokrates’ belief. It is a glance down into time, at realities you once knew, as staggeringly beautiful as the glance of your beloved. 

Anne Carson, from ‘Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay’

[thunderstruck9]

Ben Nicholson (British, 1894-1982), Sept 29-53 (Fiesole), 1953. Oil on canvas, 24 x 24 in.

[strictlyfavorites]

when women were stronger than strong

July 6, 1936, Route 66, New Mexico. This is Martha Evans, 32. She had been walking for three days. Her husband died of tuberculosis in Oklahoma in May. The farm was foreclosed. She took the six kids and a Radio Flyer wagon and started west for California. The twins in the wagon were 11 months old. The boys walking were 6, 5, 4, and 3. Her dress was torn on barbed wire. Her leg was cut and infected. She wrapped it with a feed sack. She had $1.60 in her pocket. A photographer from the Resettlement Administration saw them and pulled over. He offered her a ride. She said no. She said if she took a ride now, the kids would expect one every time they were tired. She gave him her name and kept walking. The photo ran in newspapers across the country. Donations came to a PO box in Barstow. She got $200 and a bus ticket. She made it to Bakersfield and picked grapes. All six kids lived. Three went to college. Martha died in 1978. The wagon is in the Smithsonian

[byneddiedingo]

eternal–return: Paul Klee ·Moonrise (1925)

[thiagonm]

Cy Twombly, Untitled, 1964

[fravery]

Vincent Van Gogh Wheat Field with a Lark, 1887 oil on canvas Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

[classicalcanvas]

Wood Lane (1876) by Claude Monet