[loveridden1999]

adult grief by louise glück

[ryebreadgf]

something something the poetry of science etc

[ryebreadgf]

woah

[dramaticwriter]

yeah

[everything-art]

Spirit (1885) by George Roux

[thunderstruck9]

George Roux (French, 1853-1929), Spirit, 1885. Oil on canvas, 108 x 79 cm.

[pnglove]

© platedmuse on instagram

[sisyphusshrugged]

Dan Hays Colorado Snow Effect 4 (with detail) 2007, oil on canvas

[silentauroriamthereal]

[the-real-seebs]

the average rap battle has nothing on people who are still deeply in love after twenty years

[itscolossal]

Dreamlike Scenes Unfold in Masha Foya’s Ethereal Illustrations

[malinaa]

Elizabeth Wilson, “Haunted Houses”

[huariqueje]

Uprising - Edwina Lucas , 2020.

American , b. 1991 -

Oil on panel , 8 x 8 in.

[voguely]

[kosmogrl]

[poet-dreaming]

Had such a lovely exciting day yesterday with someone very significant to me. Now I am relaxing with a book and coffee, full intentions to take the day off and just read.

[aseaofquotes]

John Steinbeck, East of Eden

[sbrown82]

“I remember an incident from my own childhood, when a very close friend of mine and I, we were walking down the street. We were discussing whether God existed. And she said he did not. And I said he did. But then she said she had proof. She said, ‘I had been praying for two years for blue eyes, and he never gave me any.’ So, I just remember turning around and looking at her. She was very, very Black. And she was very, very, very, very beautiful. How painful. Can you imagine that kind of pain? About that, about color? So, I wanted to say you know, this kind of racism hurts. This is not lynchings, and murders, and drownings. This is interior pain. So deep. For an 11 year-old girl to believe that if she only had some characteristic of the white world, she would be okay. [Black girls] surrendered completely to the master narrative. I mean the whole notion of what is ugliness, what is worthlessness. She got it from her family, she got it from school, she got it from the movies — she got it everywhere; it’s white male life. The master narrative is whatever ideological script that is being imposed by the people in authority on everybody else. The master fiction, history, it has a certain point of view. So, when these little girls see that the most prized gift that they can get at Christmastime is this little white doll, that’s the master narrative speaking: “This is beautiful. This is lovely, and you’re not it.”

Toni Morrison on what inspired her to write her first novel, The Bluest Eye.

[classicalcanvas]

First Steps (1890) by Vincent van Gogh

[margindoodles2407]

YOU DO NOT GET TO LEAVE THIS IN THE TAGS.

[seeking-elsewhither]

HERE IT IS!!!

[the-bibrarian]

The reason it is not as well known as other paintings by Van Gogh is probably because it’s actually a « copy » of a drawing by Jean-François Millet, an artist he admired greatly.

I put copy in quotation marks because the two artworks are very different. Van Gogh made 21 copies after Millet’s works from the asylum in Saint-Remy, and he called them « translations ».

The original title of the painting posted by op is actually First steps, after Millet.

Here’s the drawing that inspired him :

First steps, c. 1859-66, Jean-François Millet

[big-smiling-monkey]

🥲

[spaceforrent]

Historic Sweetheart Restaurant 35mm January 2019

[unbfacts]

Long before the introduction of color film, a Russian chemist and photographer named Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky used an innovative technique. He took three individual black and white photos, each through a colored filter (red, green, and blue), to create fully colored, high-quality pictures. The photo of this woman, taken by him, is around 107 years old!

[redladydeath]

No wait I looked this guy up and this shit’s amazing

It’s so incredibly humanizing to see people from the very distant past in such authentic color

And like. look at these landscape shots!! They’re so vivid!! Even aside from the historical value, these are just legitimately beautiful photographs

[polo-yaoman]

Oooh but you cannot NOT mention Sergei Makhailovich’s photography in the snow ! The colours on these are incredible

btw all of his works can be found in high definition and neatly catalogued on the library of congress website

@averageinstabilityenjoyer

[crazy-as-a-jaybird]

woah…