let's cradle some dreams

I post my art and what inspires me here. Go to dantecaruso.com to view my work.

[burnmyuncle]

Deryk Thomas art

[wintercorrybriea2]

Lossapardo, no one’s coming to save you

[nobrashfestivity]

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾 北斎, Two bats flying, c. 1830-50

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[japaneseaesthetics]

Tigers in a Bamboo Grove (detail), mid‑1630s. Kano Tan’yū, Japanese, 1602–1674. Ink, color, and gold leaf on paper, set of four‑panel sliding doors, each door 72 13/16 × 55 ½ inches. Nanzen-ji Temple, Sakyō-ku, Japan. Important Cultural Property.

[fashionlandscapeblog]

Antony Gormley

Fall, 2025

Inkcap on paper.

[random-brushstrokes]

René Magritte - The Thought Which Sees (1965)

[image-plus-official]

Michael Whelan - Chasm (2000) [657 x 977]

[katelittleton]

Peter Weibel Self Portrait (original title: Knife as a Mirror), 1975

[ducissatenebrarum]

"The temptation of San Antonio" attributed to the Flemish painter David Teniers the Younger

[thiagonm]

Helen Frankenthaler, Requiem, 1992

[thekimonogallery]

This exceptionally tranquil, compositionally minimalist, and atmospherically expansive horizontal woodblock print is a celebrated landscape masterpiece by the renowned Shin-hanga (New Print) and Sōsaku-hanga (Creative Print) artist Shiro Kasamatsu (1898–1991). Titled "Scale Clouds" (Urokogumo), this magnificent design stands as a brilliant testament to mid-20th-century Japanese graphic art, shifting away from the dense urban theatricality of older traditions to capture a quiet, deeply poetic moment of rural labor. The artwork orchestrates a masterfully subtle palette of earthy moss-greens, warm straw-yellows, soft horizon ambers, and a vast, light-blue sky to crystallize the serene, rhythmic harmony between humanity and nature.

[museeno]

Oliwa Cathedral, Gdańsk.

[oldhollywood]

The Holy Mountain’s (1926, dir. Arnold Fanck) "Cathedral of Ice“ (via)

The 50 ft. tall cathedral was constructed from ice painstakingly shaped for months on an armature of metal pipes. 

[xaoca]

Hans Erni (1909-2015)

[horrorcitos]

The Decay of a Corpse by Kitō Dōkyō, 19th century

[cosmonautroger]

Ernst Fuchs, La Mort Cocue, 1974

[rosieandthemoon]

Charles E. Burchfield, ‘Untitled’; watercolor on paper (1918)