Queen in the South

Julieta, 24, Argentina! Grafic Design student. instagram: queennuwanda

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Salvador Dalí Tarot Deck Artworks

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by Theodor von der Beek 

by Constantin Emile Meunier /detail/

by John Everett Millais /detail/

by Alexandre Cabanel /detail/

by Jean-Baptiste (James) Bertrand /detail/

also by Jean-Baptiste (James) Bertrand

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Fay Ku (Taiwanese, b. 1974, Taipei, Taiwan, based NY, USA) - Bitch Is Golden, 2010, Metallic Watercolor on Black Stonehenge Paper

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Eye movements made by subjects while examining I. E. Repin’s painting “An Unexpected Visitor”, with different questions in mind

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i’m watching an art theft documentary and they’re interviewing this art history professor from new york who was asked to go with the fbi to authenticate a rubens that had been stolen but it was a sting operation so they had to pretend like they weren’t the fbi, that they were some private buyer about to pay $3.5 million for it, and the fbi was like “this is a VERY delicate operation because you never know how they will react to what you have to say so let the agent do all of the talking, don’t say a word to anyone just nod if it’s the rubens, the last operation we did the guy in your position got shot because things went wrong in a second” and then it cuts to the professor’s interview and he says “i wasn’t going to fly down to miami to be a part of an undercover fbi sting operation to handle what could be rubens’s aurora and just NOT say anything. i was gonna have to ad lib a little” and then he tells the interviewer that when he & the fbi agent got to the hotel while he was examining the painting he started lecturing the other people, first on how badly they had wrapped it, and then about like how it had been painted, the history of it, what the subject was and what she was doing, etc etc, and he was like “i hadn’t taught a class on rubens in 15 years, so for me it was like being back in the classroom except my students couldn’t leave” 

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at one point during the deal the professor turned to the woman selling it and he said “isn’t this just the most beautiful rubens you’ve ever seen outside of a museum?” (because the fbi had told him earlier that this piece had been stolen from a museum) and THEN he said “where on earth did you get it from?” and the group of people the woman had with her was like taxidermy-fox.png but the woman was like “inheritance” can you IMAGINE the fbi agent about to have a fucking aneurysm when this random guy you’ve brought in just to nod if it’s the right painting not only starts giving an impromptu lecture but then he asks how they got it

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B4Zm-Aa74Y&t=2613s

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omg BLESS YOU for the link and the time stamp that was as glorious as described by the OP

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Edward John Poynter, An Evening at Home (1888) | Oscar Wilde, De Profundis (1905)

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Untitled shoe concept - James Morrison - Parsons School of Design (1996-1997)

Scanned from Graphis Student Design ‘97

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[profeminist]

Someone tweeted to me that my father “didn’t offend people.” At the time Daddy was killed, a poll reflected that he was the most hated man in America. Most hated. Many who quote him now & use him to deter justice would likely hate him too if they truly studied #MLK. #MLK50Forward

People were offended by him speaking truth to power, calling attention to and engaging nonviolence to end racism, war and poverty. In fact, his ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’ was in response to clergy who called him an “outside agitator.” #MLK

- @BerniceKing 

“Letter from a Birmingham Jail [King, Jr.]”

“I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a “more convenient season.” Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.”  

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Reblogging for Black History Month 2019

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How You Will Die In The Decadent Movement

The year is 1885 and everybody in Europe is worn out from being Symbolists! It’s time to become a Decadent and shut yourself away in your room in order to be strongly influenced by Gautier and uncomfortable psychological positions! It’s time to retroactively apply the term to writers of a generation before you and signal a vague set of seemingly-unrelated people, ideas, and qualities! Someone told you what Egypt was and now you’re dying on your own sickeningly green couch! Are you ready to invest in perversity and disease? Okay!

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François-Édouard Picot (1786-1868) “L'Amour et Psych” (1817)