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I love the smiths but how could a man ever know how joan of arc felt
if I had a nickel for every time politicians were thrown out the window in Prague I'd have three nickels. which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened three times???
when virginia woolf said "who shall measure the heat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?" i felt it in the deepest corners of my soul i didn't even know existed.
Today I was lonely. So, I went to the Courtauld to see some beauty.
Duchamp playing chess with Eve Babitz, 1963
My piece for the Art history style swap by @artists-guild-of-exandria
Museum Garden in the National Archaeological Museum in Athens
“The new garden has been designed both as a showpiece in its own right and as a complement to the exhibits, as it has been planted with native Greek species that appear in the country’s mythology."
https://www.greece-is.com/botanic-garden-national-archaeological-museum/
and
The Central Courtyard of the Rockefeller Museum in Jerusalem
"The central courtyard was inspired by the 14th century Alhambra Palace in Granada, Spain, considered one of the wonders of Moorish architecture in medieval Spain and of all times."
https://www.antiquities.org.il/Article_eng.aspx?sec_id=39&subj_id=156&id=163
Something that kills artists:
🌸 Some people will demand the best of you since you begin, forgetting the passion and effort and the stage you're at. The misunderstanding, the rigid definition of "perfect" and "talent" that leaves no place for efforts, kill them. 🌸
PS: keep going! Efforts matter.💫
▪Picture Credit : Pinterest
the way ivan aivazovsky looks at the sea…i think…i think that’s what love looks like.
Lake Lucerne (1802) by J.M.W. Turner
Pirosmani (1969)
I studied this in class for about 4 months, the idea is for it to be perceived differently at different tides. At certain points in the day you can walk all the way through it! If you like it you might also enjoy the (slightly more anatomically correct) snake he did for his "Empires" piece as part of the Monumenta series in Paris https://francetravelplanner.com/go/paris/museums/monumenta.html
150 meter aluminum sea serpent skeleton sculpture in Nantes, France. Artist Huang Yong Ping