The Plane of Immanence

This blog is more or less an aesthetic expression of metaphysics, of the way art resounds in concepts and in thinking our way through them. "The plane of immanence is not a concept that is or can be thought but rather the image of thought, the image thought gives itself of what it means to think, to make use of thought, to find one's bearings in thought."-Deleuze

[moonandtrees]

1910 | via Tumblr on We Heart It. http://weheartit.com/entry/59018457/via/lullabelle_

[themouthofthecaves-blog]

Albert Bierstadt Storm in the Mountains, ca. 1870

[thusreluctant]

Lake Tahoe, Spearing Fish by Torchlight by Albert Bierstadt

[solitaryfossil]

DURAND, Asher Brown

American painter (b. 1796, Springfield Township, d. 1886, Maplewood)

A Stream in the Wood

1865

Oil on canvas, 102 x 82 cm

Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

A Stream in the Wood is also typical of Durand’s subject matter, as most of his paintings depict woods. He almost invariably uses the same compositional format, comprising a few trees in the foreground, an empty middle area, and beyond these a luminous sky which casts light on the valley. Durand’s paintings show nature in its wild state, without any sign of human presence, and glorify American nature as a new Eden.

[planeofimmanence-blog]

Ich brauche reine glatte Spiegel für meine Lehren; auf eurer Oberfläche verzerrt sich noch mein eignes Bildnis.

Nietzsche, Also sprach Zarathustra

[jesus-montoya]

Elena Fortuna

[sam-i-jam]

[vcrfl-blog]

Ivan Aivazovsky: The Black Sea at Night, 1879.

[angeheurtebise]

[autruchon]

Pablo Picasso, Deux saltimbanques avec un chien (1905)

[german-expressionists]

Ernst Ludiwg Kirchner, Mask Dance, 1929 

[imagediver]

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Detail from Judith Beheading Holofernes, Caravaggio

[speciesbarocus]

José Joaquín Magón - De Español y de India produce Mestiza (c. 1770).

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[toniiu]

Rene Magritte - La Voleuse, 1927

[inneroptics]

Francis BACON - Studies for a Portrait of Peter Beard 

[inacom]

mermaids - sirens - monster fish (french, circa 1450-70)

[speciesbarocus]

Michael Maier - Chymisches Cabinet (1708). Detail.

[cloudyskiesandcatharsis]

Fictitious Dishes, Famous Meals From Literature by Dinah Fried

[psychotic-art]

CARMEN LUNA