The Art of Recovery

Pensive, eating-disordered, slave to unemployment, college drop-out, survivor, intern, pseudo intellectual, blogs her psychosis away through art curation. Seeking sobriety from self-harm through self-education and self-love. Anonymous, open book, affable - ask away. I am the tenderness my father didn't give to me. The archive is user-friendliest.

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Woman in Profile with Flowers - Odilon Redon

Pastel.

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Goofbutton Collab #1 - 

Jesse Treece

United States - 2011

Assemblage / Collage - Photomontage

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Siren - 

Doris Tesárková Oplová

Czech Republic - 2012

Painting - mixed media

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Self Portait As a Fountain - Rabih Mroue

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Eve

Jean-Francois Dupuis - Canada

Acrylic - 2011

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    The Future is Crushing in My Face and Leaving

Acrylic on Canvas

Liu Chenyang - China - 2012

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The Japanese Bridge (The Water-Lily Pond, Water Irises) - Claude Monet

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A Pinch of Snuff

Marc Chagall  

Oil and gouache on paper, c. 1912.

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May Picture

Paul Klee (German (born Switzerland), Münchenbuchsee 1879–1940 Muralto-Locarno)

Oil on cardboard.

This work is one of Paul Klee's Magic Square series of oil paintings and watercolors that derive from the 1914 Tunisian watercolors in which he fractured the landscape into squares. They are also related to Klee's preoccupation with the laws of color, prompted by his teaching at the Bauhaus. The squares in this painting might be viewed as odd-shaped stones-in all the colors of the rainbow, to say nothing of the various shades of gray-assembled to form an abstract mosaic.

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The Tenderness My Father Didn't Give to Me.

Painting and caption submitted by wanderfullauren:

I grew up with a father who gave me the world, minus the tenderness.  I love him so much, and he loves me.  But he didn't have a father around to show him how to do it right.  

I am beginning a series of paintings that feature incredibly beautiful women who are looking for more than what this world has to offer.  

Thank you so much for your beautiful blog.  It brings me to tears.

Thank you for submitting, sweet one. I am glad that anyone else can enjoy it and heal from it as I do. Also, let me gently beseech you to use this series of paintings to portray women whose skin color and body size are not always described as beautiful in the mainstream media.

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Mr. and Mrs. America.

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Squint

Cecily Brown (British, born 1969)

2002. Lithograph, Composition.

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Indian Man and German Woman

August Sander (German, 1876–1964)

1926. Gelatin silver print.

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by AngryWhistler

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Widad Al Orfali

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Eastern Tale - Martiros Saryan - 1903

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Butterflies on Deep Blues and Greens - Lily Greenwood