[loumargi]

Odilon Redon tears-les-pleurs

[artist-chagall]

St. Mark and St. Matthew, 1978, Marc Chagall

Size: 141.5x34.5 cm Medium: vitrage

[expressionism-art]

Iesu nativitas (Matthew 1:20), 1964, Salvador Dali

[thepolishstufflove]

“In prison” ( second half of 19th century) by Cyprian Kamil Norwid (Polish;1821–1883), oil on canvas; National Museum in Warsaw

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

I cynically keep myself alive…

Arthur Rimbaud, from a letter to Georges Izambart c. May 1871, featured in “I Promise to be Good: Letters,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

[acehotel]

Yoko Ono’s “Cleaning Pieces”

CLEANING PIECE I 

Write down a sad memory. 

Put it in a box. 

Burn the box and sprinkle the ashes in the field. 

You may give some ashes to a friend who shared the sadness. 

CLEANING PIECE II 

Make a numbered list of sadness in your life. 

Pile up stones corresponding to those numbers. 

Add a stone, each time there is sadness. 

Burn the list, and appreciate the mount of stones for its beauty. 

Make a numbered list of happiness in your life. 

Pile up stones corresponding to those numbers. 

Add a stone, each time there is happiness. 

Compare the mount of stones to the one of sadness. 

CLEANING PIECE III 

Try to say nothing negative about anybody. 

a) For three days 

b) For forty-five days 

c) For three months 

See what happens to your life. 

CLEANING PIECE IV 

Write down everything you fear in life. 

Burn it. 

Pour herbal oil with a sweet scent on the ashes. 

CLEANING PIECE V 

Let a list of arbitrary names come into your mind as you go to sleep. 

Say “bless you” after each name. 

Do this with speed, by keeping a constant rhythm, so, in no way, you would hesitate to bless them.

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Cameo Glass Skyphos. Culture: Roman Place of origin: Roman Empire Date: 25 B.C. - 25 A.D. Medium: Glass

[expressionism-art]

Dancer in a Blue Skirt, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

[terminusantequem]

Germán Gárgano (Argentinian, b. 1953), Requiem III, 2006-08. Oil on canvas, 170 x 200 cm

[expressionism-art]

Ieremiae prophetia contra regem Ioachin (2 Kings 24:12), 1964, Salvador Dali

[expressionism-art]

Girls on a Bridge, 1900, Edvard Munch

Medium: oil on canvas

[fleurdulys]

Mourning - Anatoly Shumkin

[artist-chagall]

Being informed about Absalom’s death, which has been killed by Joab and has been found hanging on the tree in the forest, David gives vent to his grief (Samuel II, XIX, 1-4), 1956, Marc Chagall

Size: 32.5x22.4 cm Medium: etching on paper

[expressionism-art]

The brutal embrace, 1900, Pablo Picasso

Medium: oil on canvas

[amare-habeo]

[wetreesinart]

George Desvallières (Français, 1861-1950), La Fuite en Egypte, 1913, huile sur toile

[thoodleoo]

the proto-indo-european word for horse, ekwos (which shows up in other indo-european languages, such as the latin equus and the greek ἵππος), very possibly comes from an adjective h₁eḱus, meaning “swift”

so basically at some point people were coming up with a word for horse and they were like "it’s the thing that goes nyoom”

[thoodleoo]

proto-indo-european dude #1: hmm what should we call this animal PIE dude #2: let’s call them Speedy Boys cause theyre fast PIE dude #1: shit dude they sure are

[artist-chagall]

The Avenue of Opera, 1969, Marc Chagall

Medium: oil on canvas