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"This, for me, is the crux of why I'm an artist. It's not in the detail of the picture; it is in the atmosphere of the world you enter."  -Grayson Perry

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pictures that fill me with infinite tenderness

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Alphonse Osbert (1857 - 1939)   

La Source (détail) 

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Planet Earth II (2016) Episode 05 “Grasslands” Directed by Chadden Hunter

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Death

The Nine of Cups

Justice

The Nine of Swords

The King of Swords

The Hanged Man

The Hermit

The Six of Swords

The Eight of Cups

The Five of Cups

The Sun

The Three of Swords

‘The Ghetto Tarot’: Haitian artists transform classic tarot deck into stunning real life scenes:

Welcome to the Ghetto Tarot, a project from award-winning documentary photographer Alice Smeets and a group of Haitian artists known as Atis Rezistans. The idea was to take the classic Rider-Waite tarot deck of 78 cards and create a photographic version of each card using settings and objects in the vibrant ghetto of Haiti.

As Smeets says, “The spirit of the Ghetto Tarot project is the inspiration to turn negative into positive while playing. The group of artists ‘Atiz Rezistans’ use trash to create art with their own visions that are a reflection of the beauty they see hidden within the waste. They are claiming the word ‘Ghetto,’ thus freeing themselves of its depreciating undertone and turning it into something beautiful.”

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Water lily harvest season in Vietnam.

-Water lily harvest season in Vietnam.

Credit: Trung Pham

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From Balestrand at the Sognefjord (detail), by Thomas Fearnley.

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Tara Jane Art on Instagram

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by Tom Hegen.

Aerial exploration of abstract and organic shapes of sand dunes in the Namib desert, Africa. 

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Tove Jansson: creator of Moominland, noted anti-fascist, lesbian icon. (photos from this lovely article)

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Wolfgang Mattheuer (German, 1927-2004), Abenddämmerung [Dusk], 1991. Oil on canvas, 60 x 80 cm.

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Portrait of Princess Sibylle of Cleve, 1526, by Lucas Cranach the Elder  (1472-1553)

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You have bewitched me, body and soul. Pride & Prejudice (2005) dir. Joe Wright

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Julia Butterfly Hill lived in a 180-foot (55 m)-tall, roughly 1500-year-old California Redwood tree  for 738 days between December 10, 1997 and December 18, 1999. Hill lived in the tree, affectionately known as “Luna,” to prevent Pacific Lumber Company loggers from cutting it down.

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