Zanshin Art

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[huariqueje]

The Art of Reading - Jordi Sàbat

Catalan , b. 1960  -

Acrylic on canvas , 30 x 30 cm.

[joeinct]

George Chakiris (center) in a scene from the movie West Side Story as it was being filmed on the streets of San Juan Hill on New York City’s West Side, just after the residents were evicted and just before the buildings were demolished to make way for Lincoln Center, Photo by Eddie Hausner, 1961

[kafkasapartment]

Georgia O’Keeffe, 1956. Yousuf Karsh. Silver gelatin on card paper.

“Equal Rights and Responsibilities is a basic idea that would have very important psychological effects on women and men from the time they are born. It could very much change the girl child’s idea of her place in the world. I would like each child to feel responsible for the country and that no door for any activity they may choose is closed on account of sex.”

Georgia O'Keeffe, February 10, 1944

[politicalprof]

"Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that's invented between when you’re 15 and 35 is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you're 35 is against the natural order of things."

Douglas Adams

[summertimenoir]

Out of the Past (1947) - dir. Jacques Tourneur

[thekimonogallery]

Kimono titled “Moe Izuru” by artist Takayuki Takahashi

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Ralph Bunche, one of the founders of the United Nations and a co-creator of the Universal Declaration of Human Right, gives a life membership in the New York Branch of the NAACP to Josephine Baker, May 20, 1951.

Photo: INP/AFP/Getty Images/Harper's Bazaar

[politicalprof]

“As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.”

― Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln Letters

[newyorkthegoldenage]

People (NYU students?) taking time out to enjoy a few moments of relaxation in Washington Square Park, June 10, 1951.

Photo: Robert Kradin for the AP

[citizenscreen]

“Gloria Grahame demonstrates that Hollywood movies can be real when it comes to sleep in the raw and to wake up in public.” (Original caption) IN A LONELY PLACE (Nicholas Ray, 1950)

[artemisdreaming]

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Tsuba with a Frog in a Lotus Pond, Japan, gold-copper alloy (shakudo), gold, silver, not dated, The Walters Art Museum

Description from the Walters Art Museum:  ”The primary motif of this tsuba is large lotus leaves in gold. The leaves at either side fold over the edge, which connects the two sides. Below the leaves, stylized lines in silver indicate water. Lotus grows in ponds of water. On the obverse, a frog is on the left, near the hole for the utility knife. The lotus is associated with Buddha and a state of purity.”   Creative Commons license

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Tsuba (鍔 or 鐔):The tsuba is a hand guard for a Japanese sword.

[rhade-zapan]

Cleopatra ~ Cecil B. DeMille ~ 1934

Feat: Claudette Colbert

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[sitting-on-me-bum]

Painted woolly bats are nocturnal and sparsely distributed in the landscape, roosting in small groups.

faridmuzaki via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0).

[henk-heijmans]

Aerial view of Edinburgh, Scotland, ca. 1920 - by Alfred Buckham (1879 - 1956), English

[thumper1000]

'The Nymph' by Giovanni Battista Lombardi (1822 - 1880) is in Palazzo Facchi, Brescia, Italy.

Look at the detail showing the extreme skill in depicting water with marble.

[amnhnyc]

While the crab-eating fox’s (Cerdocyon thous) name implies that crabs make up most of its diet, this canid is omnivorous and has a wide-ranging menu that changes with the seasons. It lives in parts of eastern and northern South America, where it’s found in forests, savannas, shrubland, and wetlands. During the dry season, it may snack more on insects; during the wet season, it favors crustaceans.

Photo: gabriel_delasala, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist

[citizenscreen]

Remembering Robert Preston (June 8, 1918 – March 21, 1987)