Lesnik @lesnik---stolyarny-lane - Tumblr Blog

"Both the artist and the madman rather give up the world than their principles and ideals."

- Arnold Hauser, Philosophy of art history

main: @lesnik---asteroid-b-612

about me: my natural habitat is spending hours alone in art and history museums. currently working on a book i hope will be published by next year. i play electric guitar and im learning chinese. ate a cricket once

main interests:

art history (everything tbh)

classic lit (dostoevsky, kafka, beckett, etc etc)

ancient history (asking me about sumer and akkad unlocks a 30 minute unskippable yapping cutscene, youve been warned)

yugoslav rock (EKV my beloved)

paleontology (carnotaurus and therizinosaurus my favs<3)

im here to make friends, feel free to interact :]

#pinned post #friends can ask for my discord!

arte-artem-artibus

Remedios Varo - Naturaleza muerta resucitando, 1963, oil on canvas, 109.9 × 80.1 cm

lamine-19

The kindest thing that literature does is remind you that your little peculiar feelings have always existed. Someone, in some century, felt equally bewildered by love, bored by society, tired of pretending, and hungry for meaning.

weepingwidar

André Bauchant (French, 1873-1958) - The Styx (1939)

frederickchiltonsdivacup

Lord Henry is still one of the most fascinating characters in literary history. He just strolls leisurely into every room and says complete bullshit like "I don't think we really need water to survive" before smoking opium and walking away, and every single time, his pet twink (that he stole, by the way) just stares at him and says "Waaow..... that's so truee...... so based and true...." Like cmon dude not even Lord Henry believes that bullshit. You saw him drink water five minutes ago.

gorskivijenac

Portrait of Mabel Grujić dressed in a Serbian traditional costume, 1912. House of Jevrem Grujić

throatoftheworld

The Dragon Devouring the Companions of Cadmus by Hendrick Goltzius, 1588

postarcadian

truly the idea of "this scene is (un-)necessary to the story" is such a fundamentally uncurious and anti-art way of engaging with fiction. the story itself is unnecessary, in the sense that all art is unnecessary, because art is not a fucking optimization problem. that's the beauty of it

dragoninhumanskin

No but you see we need to efficiency and we need to optimal even when we're not working and we're just taking a breath to be human beings. That's what it's all about. Not feeling the wind on your face. Optimisation.

#true But #a scene absolutely can be unnecessary if it doesnt tell us anything abt the characters or the world or anything at all #sometimes it is bad writing bc ur sitting through something boring af and thinking “why tf am i watching this”#a scene that is just the characters playing around and that provides a break from the constant plot advancing isnt truly useless imo #sometimes (often) the unnecessary scenes are eg.writers adding useless bloat bc they think their story is inheretly worth more if its longe

update: turns out painting isnt so bad if your paint doesnt suck

#me when i realize i cant get by on the cheapest supplies🤯#i need a j*b

need to practice painting now😭😭 need to copy some old masters paintings😭😭 oooooohh😭😭

#im not quite fond of painting if u havent noticed #but u gotta do what u gotta do

deathandmysticism

John Ridewall, Fulgentius metaforalis, 15th century

mikeyfuckinway

"cozy bookstore" "cozy cafe with a bookshelf" "omg imagine if there was a place you could just sit and read at" we have this its called the library. you guys want to go to the library. the two college libraries near me have cafes inside and they are open to the public. people need to go to the library