Love and Pleasure

a random collection of pictures ... enjoy

[arthistoryanimalia]

#CephalopodAwarenessDays : #NautilusNight :

Cornelis Bellekin (Dutch, c.1625-1711)

1. Nautilus shell with carved vines

Amsterdam, 1650-1700

W 7.5 cm x D 6 cm x T 4 cm

BK-1957-19-1

2. Nautilus shell carved from mother of pearl with floral tendrils

Amsterdam, 1650-1700

W 6 cm x D 4 cm x T 4 cm

BK-1957-18-2

Rijksmuseum collection

[galleryofart]

Woman in a Large Hat

Artist: Caesar van Everdingen (Dutch, 1616/17-1678)

Date: c. 1650

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Rijksmuseum, The Hague, Netherlands

Description

A young woman in a white tunic stands in a wooded landscape and looks out at the viewer from beneath a broad, disc-shaped hat. In her left hand she holds up a small basket of plums. The fluttering end of the ribbon that serves as a belt suggests movement, as if she is walking or dancing. The picture was unknown before the 2009 auction at which the museum bought it. It is not signed but is so typical of Caesar van Everdingen in style and execution that there is not the slightest doubt about his authorship, and Huys Janssen certified as much with his attribution in the sale catalogue.

[roldam]

(via Pin page)

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[fleur-aesthetic]

instagram | thesaltedimage

[europeansculpture]

César Orrico (*1984) - Edith, 2018

Bois et bronze

[edgina]

[loveandpleasure]

edgina:

Silver Foil on Very Thick Letterpress Business Cards « Studio Z Mendocino

[los]

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bclf8PclF3H/

[morgondagen]

Frank Stöckel

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[lifeonsundays]

[maldita-chinita]

trying to absorb literature through osmosis ig:daniemarianne

[loumargi]

La Regina della Luce della Luna (by L-E-N-T-E- S-C-U-R-A)

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“Night-born beauty. How sweetly she melts in her sin.”

— František Halas, tr. by Stephan Delbos, from “Malá Strana Night Vision,”

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[loveandpleasure]

Here’s the thing,  everything I read I see and not just pictures of the words.

As I’m typing this my brain is visualising it’s own running commentary of visuals pretty much like a movie.  I’m not sure how common this is.

 Research I’ve done points me to ‘teachers encouraging their pupils to  learn and then practise visualisation’, This  it seems to be something different to how my brain processes  written information though,

Its’ not something I learnt to do. And seeing as we didn’t have a TV at home when  I was a kid (and I could visualise this way before we had the TV) I haven’t been influenced by that media. 

Any thoughts or links to academic info would be appreciated. 

[opens-at-nightfall]

Goodness gracious, what on earth has Widget managed to capture in this jar?!

…perhaps it’s the scent of your sparkler-bitten fingers, smelling of gunpowder and almost-blood, and the taste of sweat licked off your upper lip, and said singed fingers, stuck in your mouth to soothe their sting. The sight of a darkened field filled with fireflies, winking through the night, and flickering in your hole-poked mayonnaise jar like glimmering constellations trapped between your hands. The sound of the pattering flicker of playing cards clothes-pinned to bicycle spokes, and the exhilarated screams filling a carnival midway. The prickly almost-burned tingle of hands that clutched the rope swing over the river, cooled by muddy water and a resounding splash, and the electric ozone air before a thunderstorm, and the subtly sudden beginning, with hot raindrops warming and cooling your skin at the same time.

I think Widget has managed to bottle Summer.