minor arcana

http://www.nealtwalsh.com    "The beauty of things was born before eyes and sufficient to itself; the heartbreaking beauty Will remain when there is no heart to break for it." from -"Credo" by Robinson Jeffers

[thiagonm]

Helen Frankenthaler, Requiem, 1992

[arthuntblog]

Brent Wadden [Canada] (b 1979) - ‘Untitled‘, 2019. Hand woven fibers, wool, cotton and acrylic on canvas, in the artist’s frame (185.7x143.2 cm).

[mart-singer]

LCVM25-09, acrylic and collage on paper, 15,9 x 11,6 inches / 40,5 x 29,5 cm

[fernpapst]

Nahrae Lee, Interdependence, 2025, Oil and Bunchae on canvas, 120 × 130 cm

[subnitida]

Alex Červený, Aquífera [detail], 2021, oil on linen

[thinkingimages]

Diana Harrison | 'working in cloth' Crafts Study Centre in Farnham

[iamjapanese]

Zhou Yansheng（周彦生 Chinese, b.1942）

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[paintedout]

Art and Sanity

"If there’s a coffee stain, and you see something in it, that’s a drawing. You didn’t necessarily draw it with your hand, but you made that. And that’s an old, old thing. In terms of evolution, it’s the immune system that allows the body to fight off a bacterial infection. I believe that the arts are like an external immune system. I believe that they have a biological function.

In the course of human life we have a million phantom-limb pains—losing a parent when you’re little, being in a war, even something as dumb as having a mean teacher—and seeing it somehow reflected, whether it’s in our own work or listening to a song, is a way to deal with it.

The Greeks knew about it. They called it catharsis, right? And without it we’re fucked. I think art is the thing that keeps our mental health or emotional health in balance, and we’re born with an impulse toward it." - Lynda Barry

[minor-arcana]

Teresa Baker, Shift in the Clouds, 2024. photo by Michael Tropea.

[likitesplit]

Betty Parsons

[sashasaari]

Sub Rosa, 2021 Approx. 21x28cm. Paper, glue, pigment, acrylic and watercolor on linen.

[minor-arcana]

Teresa Baker

Teresa Baker, “Paragraph of Trees” (2023), buckskin and yarn on artificial turf, 105 x 43 inches

The Poetry of Place

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Paul Cézanne outside his studio at Les Lauves in Provence. Photo was taken in April 1906, six months before his death. Photo by Gertrude Osthaus, colorized by painters-in-color

[slack-wise]

be gin by be ing pa tient with your self la ter you can be pa tient with oth ers (name of the game is pa tience.)

[abstracteddistractions]

Sam Gilliam, Wide Narrow, 1972,

Acrylic on canvas, 110 ¼ x 112 x 2 1/8 in. (280.04 x 284.48 x 5.4 cm)

Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University. 

Charles Mayer Photography.

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Bram Bogart 

Belgian, 1921-2012

Lenagarden, 1964 

Oil on canvas  

202 x 122 cm. | 79.53 x 48.03 in.

[minor-arcana]

Pierre Tal Coat, (1905-1985)

Untitled (no. 662) , oil on cigar box, 1980. 

“In Tal-Coat‘s works one can almost feel the mystic, transcendental analysis of nature and the world itself. He strived to recreate the elements of reality, which constitute the perceived by their equivalents. In a platonic sense he focused on the idea of the pictured element. Tal-Coat does not offer aspects but moments, passages of nature, the ”presence” as he would have called it. Samuel Beckett attested to Tal-Coat: ”Whether achieved by submission or ability, the result is a gaining of nature”.