[punlovsin]

[etherealacademia]

if someone doesn’t fall in love with me soon i’m actually going to wither up and die

[verenadrawsthings]

a wanderer, all ready to go (he’s invited to a birthday brunch!)✨

[verenadrawsthings]

welcome autumn, very dearest of seasons 🧡

[verenadrawsthings]

ah yes, my weakness…..small girls + their big scary companions 🐺✨

[sictransitgloriamvndi]

Manor with Tower in the Moonlight (1882 / Oil on canvas) - Heinrich (Henri) Gogarten

[opheliaacademia]

‘Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness’ To Autumn, Keats

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[opheliaacademia]

“for the limits, to which our thoughts are confined, are small in respect of the vast extent of Nature it self; some parts of it are too large to be comprehended, and some too little to be perceived…we often take the shadow of things for the substance.”

— Robert Hooke, Micrographia, Preface, 1665.

[nevver]

The Muse’s Revenge, Ilya Milstein

[colombianomarica]

[portabellogna]

So I’m just going to leave this picture of an old Pablo Picasso here for reference.

[kingohats]

#I recognized the reference but had assumed it was more of a general influence however they used the same molding and everything#I’m sure it’s supposed to be more of a general statement rather than being about any one artist and I’m sad there’s no caption on her site#but Picasso was certainly one of Those Artist Dudes#which is to say he was an abusive douchebag to most of the women in his life (x)

[phantomthread2017]

[helloitsbees]

yeah fuck this dude

[cats-moss-gays]

Not to be dramatic but this is absolutely the right way to deal with creepy old men whose “art” is just pictures of naked women

[charismat1c-megafauna]

By the way if you like cubism but really dont want to look at Picasso, check out Francoise Gilot. She tends to do a lot of really stylized paintings of women but… Yanno. Without the abuse.

She’s also one of Picasso’s exes and consequently one of his muses. She’s spoken at length about her experience. And thus far, she’s had some pretty sweet revenge. She’s free, her artwork is simply gorgeous, and she’s still alive today (as of 2020) at the age of 98!

Edit: i would also like to add that Gilot was already an accomplished artist when she became involved with Picasso, and he completely sabotaged her career when she left him. He discouraged museums from showing her work, and he unsuccessfully tried to block the publication of her memoir, Life with Picasso. To my knowledge, she’s the only one of his “muses” who is still alive, so let’s maybe take this time to explore and celebrate the work of a woman who was overshadowed by her abuser.

[ambassadorquark]

art history is an endless loop of learning how fucked up and crazy every artist is. art history professor will show you a painting of 4 oranges and be like the guy who painted this killed his wife

[nobrashfestivity]

Unknown, Japanese matchbox from the 1920s

[medusagirlfriend-blog]

x x x

[soracities]

(x) via @billypotts​

[suspend]

[gorgonapologist]

The Original Goths: Why Women Write Gothic Horror

[butternaan]

theindianexpress / pascalchampion / hozier, ‘to noise making’ / titanic (1997) dir. james cameron / my chemical romance, ‘sing’ / abc news / dead poets society (1989) dir. peter weir / bertolt brecht

[existential-celestial]

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Robert Hass, from "Faint Music," in Sun Under Wood

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Jack Gilbert, from “Horses at Midnight Without a Moon,”in Collected Poems

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Paul Celan, from “Threadsuns,” from BREATHTURN INTO TIMESTEAD: THE COLLECTED LATER POETRY A BILINGUAL EDITION (translated by Pierre Joris)

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Denise Levertov, from “In California: Morning, Evening, Late January,” in A Door in the Hive 

[amandaherzman]

night blooming jasmine (nyctanthes arbor-tristis) 🌟🌛

the work is inspired by a folktale about the parijata tree. there was once a princess called Parijat, she fell in love with the sun god Surya. Surya didn’t return her love, and in despair Parijat became the night blooming jasmine tree. the flowers bloom in the night, and in the day when the sunlight touches them, they fall to the ground.

[campaignagainstcliche]