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“Humanity’s self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order.”
— Walter Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,“ 1936 (via infiniteradius)
Kirsten Deirup (American, 1980) - Sleeper (2024)
One of us.
“I don’t mind being killed, but I don’t want them to touch me.”
— excerpt from Antigone by Jean Anouilh (trans. Lewis Galantiere)
I’m so curious what I’m gonna do now . !
Ok men are nothing ready to be a beautiful competent Anne of green gables type angel again. I can do everything all by me self
Ok men are nothing ready to be a beautiful competent Anne of green gables type angel again. I can do everything all by me self
Chantal Akerman on making Jeanne Dielman, 1975.
Frantz Zéphirin (Haitian, b. 1968)
Inside Agoue Aroyo's Eye, 2021
Acrylic on canvas
Nothing feels sacred anymore I don’t understand what happened and I want to go home to myself
Samira Abbassy (Iranian, 1965) - Flower Encounter (2021)
leiko ikemura, "floating face," 2007, tempera on canvas
Xie Lei (Chinese, 1983) - Initiation (2022)
Melancholy (1876) by Odilon Redon
Happy National Library Week!! A great time to ask everyone you know if they have a library card.
Chaos. The Genesis (Ivan Aivazovsky, 1841)
The forest parts and the sword glows. Do you take it or leave it be?
Wang Muyuu (Chinese, 1975) - Water Gives Rise to All Things (2021)
I want to paint mermaids like that and make art that has real spirit again :( when can I finally go home to myself and how
'The Red Tapestry'. Jaime Corum. 2011.
w. h. auden, marginalia
!["AMONG THE WAVES" IVAN AIVAZOVSKY // 1898 [oil On Canvas | 97 X 66 Cm.]](https://64.media.tumblr.com/f76b7b4dce3490012e2bb53b0733166f/476c6a43f908f59c-e0/s500x750/348a2ff62cc8147ec0e638737e3b1c022b0ffb6a.jpg)
"AMONG THE WAVES" IVAN AIVAZOVSKY // 1898 [oil on canvas | 97 x 66 cm.]