PIROZZO

PHOTOGRAPHY, PAINTINGS, SPACES, COMICS, ILLUSTRATIONS, MUSIC, NATURE, LANDSCAPES, CITIES, LIGHTS, OLD TIMES.

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Theodor de Bry. Illustration for Utriusque Cosmi Maioris Scilicet et Minoris Metaphysica by Robert Fludd. 1617.

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The Distortionists by Sammy Slabbinck (2014)

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La letra con amor, entra. (via)

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Master of the Blumenrahmen (After Master ES), Ars Moriendi (The Art Of Dying), German woodcuts, c.1470.

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You can delete me from your life. You can't delete me from your mind. I'm still there, like a virus. I'm still there like an old tiny shitty piece of memory you would pay for erase it. But I'm there. You know I am. You know I'm knockin' on you You know I will always bring you to the deepest side of your darkest black hours and find you. You know how a sparkle could be true, you know how a planet could be just dust in a minute. You know I'm there and I'll be always next to you. Close to your deep bloody electric connections. I'm stille there.

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Moonlit Landscape with a View of the New Amstel River and Castle Kostverloren, c. 1649.

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Women of the Harem, Morocco

Benjamin Constant, 1875

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Charles Darwin, c. 1854

Walker & Boutall

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Irises, Hokusai, s.d. Van Gogh, 1890

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Nobuhiro Nakanishi

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Daniel Pitin

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Jean-Michel Basquiat

Currency

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Daniel Pitin

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My little garden looks rad in the evening!

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Käthe Kollwitz was a German expressionist artist who lived from 1867 - 1945. She is a very well known and respected female printmaker who captured life’s sorrows in her work. She began etching in 1880 and eventually taught at the Berlin School of Women Artists from 1898 to 1903.

I scanned the images above from the book “Käthe Kollwitz: Works in Color.”

In 1891 she married Dr. Karl Kollwitz. The couple moved into their new home in a section of Berlin that was filled with poverty. Witnessing the lower class life, Kollwitz developed her socialist and pacifist beliefs which became obvious in her later work. 

Kollwitz outlived most of her family. Her son died in World War I and her grandson in World War II. When speaking about her son’s death, she told a friend, “There is in our lives a wound which will never heal. Nor should it.” These loses greatly affected her beliefs even more. Her art work repeats themes of poverty, hard working people, the lives of women and war. 

During World War II the Nazis labeled her work as “degenerate” and forbid her to exhibit any of her art. Other artists had fled the country yet Kollwitz stayed in Berlin, despite the Nazis’ censorship.

As Kollwitz was reaching the end of her life, she knew she was going. In a letter she wrote, “War accompanies me to the end.” She passed away two weeks before the end of World War II. 

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The airline industry’s first stewardesses ready for inspection for Boeing Air Transport, 1930.

via reddit

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Keith Arnatt (1930-2008), Pictures from a Rubbish Tip (1988-89), photograph, colour, on paper, 60.8 x 50.6 cm. Collection of Tate, UK. Via Tate.