today for me

hi, im strzyga. let's not make it anymore awkward

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Giacomo Favretto - Entrance of a patrician house in Venice (1874)

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The Tryst (exterior and interior), c.1840s by Jean-Léon Gérôme (French, 1824–1904)

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Anna Passini on the balcony of Palazzo Priuli in Venice, c.1866 by  Ludwig Johann Passini (Austrian, 1832–1903)

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A young girl eats a red apple in the market in Leh, the capital of Ladakh, India.

Ric Ergenbright

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*I worship you Tumblr don’t remove it

Once upon a time

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brick by brick (crow by crow)

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and hope to die

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Adam Styka (Polish, 1890–1959)

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Daniele Accossato

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one more time!!! 💚🍹✨

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Ivan Myasoedov - Frederic Chopin and George Sand (ca. 1910)

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Una catastrophe, 1887 by Gaetano Chierici

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Frank

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Leonhard_Niederwimmer

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I have never heard of Norman Rockwell. I don’t understand anything about art. But this picture shook me and caused a storm of emotions. It is called Breaking Home Ties, 1954

The boy is going to a Uni and wearing his best outfit; the Uni sticker is on his luggage, even his tie and his socks are the colours of the sticker. He is excited and impatient. The father - obviously a farmer, is sitting at the worn farm truck with a flag and a storm lamp, because their place is so small the train won’t normally stop there, so the father will need to “catch” the train and signal with the light and the flag for it to stop.

His son will never come back to the farm.  

I think I understand why this picture sold at 15,4 million dollars in 2006. 

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Great paintings by Norman Rockwell of everyday Americana.

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Norman Rockwell specialized in exactly this, OP. You can look at almost all of his paintings and find a story in it. Some are sweet, some are poignant, some just show family. They are all stories, and they all have story woven into every single detail.

And because it is my favorite, this is “Shiner”

[lankyguy]

Rockwell’s mentor was A.C. Leyendecker best known for his illustrations of the Arrow Collar shirt man. The model was Leyendecker’s lover. Rockwell was a pallbearer at Leyendecker’s funeral.

[vaspider]

Rockwell’s paintings also dealt quite a bit with social issues as he got older and after the Saturday Evening Post made him remove a Black person from an image bc Black people “could only depicted in service jobs”.

As a result he left the Post & created (among other works) The Problem We All Live With and Murder in Mississippi.

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OP post “Breaking Home Ties”.

Look at the dog.

Oh boy…

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Human World of The Sea Best