[talesofpassingtime]

She’s lovely and intelligent. She needs only to be taught to overcome her affliction instead of reveling in it.

Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues  

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[artballetoperaclassical-deactiv]

Shin Saimdang (Korean,1504 - 1551) - Chochungdo (Pictures of Insects and Grass) 4, Pink Flower, Rat, Butterfly 

oil

artist, writer, calligraphist, and poet

[ducissatenebrarum]

Richard Girling (between 1800 and 1899) 

May day night on the Brocken, etching,

[veeyio-blog-blog]

Visit Original Link

[ofabsences]

I accept and I collect upon my body The memories of your devotion

[onriironrii]

Ma No Kakera by Junji Itou

[blackbirdcall]

[faerybites]

La Madre e la Morte (1911)

[artist-mcescher]

The 5th Day of the Creation, 1926, M.C. Escher

[artist-mcescher]

The 6th Day of the Creation, 1926, M.C. Escher

[thedarksideofthe-moon]

Jacques Henri Lartigue.

[redlipstickresurrected]

Clare Turlay Newberry aka Clare Newberry Trujíllo (American, 1903-1970, b. Enterprise, OH, USA) - Illustration from 1940 Edition of April’s Kittens.

[ducissatenebrarum]

The exhibition Vertigo. Op Art and a History of Deception 1520–1970 on view at mumok unfurls a whole panorama of artistic works that confound the senses, ranging from panel paintings, reliefs, and (kinetic) objects to installations and experiential spaces, to film and computer generated or computer controlled art. In this image:Guido Reni Umkreis, Jesus und Maria, first half of 17th century. Oil on wood, 33,5 x 26,5 cm © Sammlung Werner Nekes.http://ow.ly/4Adk50ursVk

[slumpbox]

Hans Bellmer

[philamuseum]

Skyscrapers were considered uniquely American: a new form of architecture that spoke to the power of the businessmen who funded them, the genius of the architects who designed them, and the perseverance of the laborers who built them. As such, skyscrapers became modern symbols of American ingenuity and optimism meant to rival the great cathedrals of Europe. Artists in the United States eagerly incorporated these symbols into their work, attempting to recreate the buildings’ power and prestige on two-dimensional surfaces. Learn more about Americans in the 1930s and 1940s in “We the People: American Prints from Between the World Wars." 

”Men of Steel,“ 1936 (published 1941), by Samuel L. Margolies 

[historical-nonfiction]

Ancient Mayans Were Beekeepers

Archaeologists in the ancient city of Nakum in northeastern Guatemala recently made a big discovery. Beneath a vast ritual platform dating from around 100 BCE to 300 CE they discovered a foot-long, barrel-shaped ceramic tube with covers at each end.

It is nearly identical to wooden beehives still made from hollow logs by Maya living in the region today. Their discovery is the only known Maya beehive. Since most beehives would probably have been wooden, they probably would not have survived.

[aseaofquotes]

Charles Bukowski, “The Bluebird”

[etchingwithaquatint]

Katherine Wildman. Desolation, Dissolution (2012)

[wnq-quotes]

It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn’t matter what we call it; what matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over.

Paulo Coelho, The Zahir

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