zach's brain-juice bottle

this is my brain-juice for to drink. this is what it looks like in my brain.

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Ferdinand KNAB

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5.12 I Yu I 2020 - Instagram

Shengsi Islands,China_

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Kryžių kalnas (The Hill of Crosses), Northern Lithuania

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Hill of Crosses is a site of pilgrimage about 12 km north of the city of Šiauliai, in northern Lithuania. The precise origin of the practice of leaving crosses on the hill is uncertain, but it is believed that the first crosses were placed on the former Jurgaičiai or Domantai hill fort after the 1831 Uprising. Over the generations, not only crosses and crucifixes, but statues of the Virgin Mary, carvings of Lithuanian patriots and thousands of tiny effigies and rosaries have been brought here by Catholic pilgrims. The exact number of crosses is unknown, but estimates put it at about 55,000 in 1990 and 100,000 in 2006. It is a major site of Catholic pilgrimage in Lithuania. Over the generations, the place has come to signify the peaceful endurance of Lithuanian people despite the threats they faced throughout history. [x]

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Zdzisław Beksiński

Untitled

c.1976

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Beksiński undertook painting with a passion, working intensely and whilst listening to classical music. He soon became the leading figure in contemporary Polish art. In the late 1960s, Beksiński entered what he himself called his "fantastic period", which lasted up to the mid-1980s. This is his best-known period, during which he created very disturbing images, showing a gloomy, surrealistic environment with very detailed scenes of death, decay, landscapes filled with skeletons, deformed figures and deserts. These paintings were quite detailed, painted with his trademark precision. At the time, Beksiński claimed, "I wish to paint in such a manner as if I were photographing dreams". [x]

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Easter Morning, ca. 1828-35

Caspar David Friedrich

Throughout [Friedrich’s] life, he sought communion with nature as a means of expressing his feelings and ideas, his hopes and yearnings. Friedrich’s landscapes are open to a profound religious interpretation. The one here, for instance, is imbued with a rich symbolism that successfully conveys his message to the viewer. Everything in it has meaning: the moon and the dawn are symbolic of death and the hope of eternal life; the season chosen—late winter giving way to early spring—is linked to the Resurrection. This beautiful painting formed a pair with the canvas entitled Early Snow, now in the Hamburg Kunsthalle. [x]

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The Abbey in the Oakwood, ca. 1809-10

Caspar David Friedrich

There are figures entering the abbey with a coffin. The artist is trying to convey a sense of the passage of time by painting a human passing away. There’s a sense of coldness around the area. The remains of the abbey show this old broken window with no remaining of glass. What is seen is that nature is forever there, while man’s creation is temporary. [x]

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Morning in the Riesengebirge, ca. 1810-11

Caspar David Friedrich

With his friend Kersting he had made a tour of the mountainous area near Dresden known as 'Saxon Switzerland', in the summer of 1810. Morning in the Riesengebirge, painted shortly afterward, is another exposition of his theme of the cross on a peak. It may be seen as a sort of continuation of the Tetschen Altar. The planes of earth and sky, representing the bodily and the infinite, are bridged by the crucifix, lit by the morning sun. [x]

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Two Men Contemplating the Moon, ca. 1825–30

Caspar David Friedrich

These two figures are seen from behind so that the viewer may participate in their communion with nature. They have been identified as Friedrich, at right, and his friend and disciple August Heinrich (1794–1822). Fascination with the moon ran high among the German Romantics, who regarded the motif as an object of pious contemplation. This is the third version of one of Friedrich’s most famous compositions, of which the first was painted during Heinrich’s lifetime (1819; Gemäldegalerie, Dresden) and the second soon after his death (ca. 1824; Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin). [x]

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Ladyhawke - Etienne and Isabeau reunited at dawn.

RIP Rutger Hauer.

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Lucia di Lammermoor - Graveyard of the Ravenswood. Edgardo is resolved to kill himself on Enrico's sword. He learns that Lucia is dying and then Raimondo comes to tell him that she has already died. Edgardo stabs himself with a dagger, hoping to be reunited with Lucia in heaven. Set design for act 3, scene 3 by Francesco Bagnara, circa 1844 (Civica Raccolta Stampe Bertarelli Milan). 

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Ladyhawke - Sunsets.

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Ladyhawke - Phillipe consults exiled friar Imperius regarding the afflicted Isabeau.

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Ladyhawke - Navarre mourns Isabeau, his lover-turned-hawk.