An Aesthetic Blog

[prinnay]

Summertime; Groceries…

AcrylaGouache and uv print on paper n cardboard. I tried to fake risograph with the background

[rowanclair]

In an ancient forest, shallow pools reflect not the trees above, but a luminous city of elsewhere.

[yoannlossel]

"Les Jardins de Nuit" (censored version) - Mixed media: colored pencils, pastels, ink, and gold leaf on paper. I created this artwork in 2020 for my book Forgotten Gods.

[az0lla]

[velvetcloak]

Brooch by Marcus & Co., 1900. The Newark Museum of Art.

[existennialmemes]

Every Website right now: Give us a scan of your driver's license or be banished. It's for safety.

Every Website for the last 10 years: Oopsies we had another massive data breach! Tee-hee!

[trb752]

Kodak Coquette Camera with matching lipstick and compact, 1930

[wondersofasia]

[wondersofasia]

[prettynpaid]

[wizardarchetypes]

my beautiful drying laundryyyy : )

[robinboardman]

Quarry Bay, Hong Kong Photograph: William Shun

[ymutate]

Filippo Palizzi (Italian painter 1818–1899)

Excavations in Pompeii, 1870

Oil on Canvas

119.5 × 86 cm.

Private Collection

[rabid-transcendentalist]

@anthropologist-on-the-loose get peer-reviewed because your shared experience with the subject of the painting really heightened the emotional impact of this artwork for me ( An impact which was already high tbh. The idea that Pompeii was built by generations, buried by generations, uncovered by generations. What if I just started screaming and never stopped. )

[anthropologist-on-the-loose]

"Built by generations, buried by generations, uncovered by generations" is ruining me, thanks

[anthropologist-on-the-loose]

But it was buried by generations! Yes, it was buried in a volcanic eruption, but it was also figuratively buried. Over the centuries the location of Pompeii was lost, and it was found again by accident during construction projects. The ruins were not conclusively identified as the city of Pompeii until the 18th century (more than a millennia and a half after the eruption!) and it has been excavated ever since. People have been digging there since before the formation of the United States.

It's truly an incredible, one-of-a-kind site.

[thecollectibles]

Oil paintings by Tomas Honz

[allthingseurope]

London

[thecollectibles]

Digital watercolor by Geoffroy Thoorens

[lamorchemoveilsoleelaltrestelle]

Mia Wasikowska in Crimson Peak (2015)