Et in Arcadia ego

Thank you for not discussing the outside world.

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Salvador Dalí - Archeological Reminiscence of Millet’s Angelus, 1933-1935. 

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René Magritte - The Portrait, 1935. 

[spookyfuzzface]

More spooky shenanigans from one of Japan’s masters of the ancient art of making-you-shit-yourself  Kawanabe Kyosai. I’m not sure what type of yokai these little buggers actually are, but I do know that they’re fun on a mother-fuckin’ bun. More soon.

[caravaggista]

“People are often unable to do anything, imprisoned as they are in I don’t know what kind of terrible, terrible, oh such terrible cage. I do know that there is a release, the belated release. A justly or unjustly ruined reputation, poverty, disastrous circumstances, misfortune, they all turn you into a prisoner. You cannot always tell what keeps you confined, what immures you, what seems to bury you, and yet you can feel those elusive bars, railings, walls. Is all this illusion, imagination? I don’t think so. And then one asks: My God! will it be for long, will it be for ever, will it be for eternity?”

- Vincent van Gogh, in a letter to his brother Theo, July 1880.

[goodreadss]

Vincent van Gogh: Skull with burning cigarette (1886)  Skull (1887/1888) 

[gustavklimt-art]

Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I 1907

Gustav Klimt

[juju-be-art]

Francisco de Zurbarán - Cup of Water and a Rose on a Silver Plate, c. 1630

[unbroken-ice]

Diego Velasquez - Las Meninas, 1656

[leonardodavinci-art]

Head Of A Young Woman With Tousled Hair (Leda) 1508

Leonardo da Vinci

[antigonick]

There was something terrible in me sometimes at night I could see it grinning at me

William Faulkner, The Sound and The Fury (via antigonick)

[artist-goya]

The Forge, 1812, Francisco Goya

Size: 125x181.6 cm Medium: oil, canvas

[thunderstruck9]

René Magritte (Belgian, 1898-1967), Le faux miroir [The false mirror], 1952. Gouache on paper, 14.5 x 19.2 cm.

[artist-aivazovski]

Sunset, 1866, Ivan Aivazovski

[artist-goya]

Don’t scream, silly, 1799, Francisco Goya

Size: 15.1x21.8 cm Medium: etching, paper

[artist-monet]

Camille Monet On Her Deathbed via Claude Monet

[leonardodavinci-art]

Head Of A Young Woman With Tousled Hair (Leda) 1508

Leonardo da Vinci

[thetruelight-blog]

The oldest known icon of Christ Pantocrator, Saint Catherine’s Monastery in Mount Sinai.

The two different facial expressions on either side emphasize Christ’s dual nature as fully God and fully human.