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Tag Archives: ART
Daniel: You ever go back and visit the buildings you painted in?
Marius: /looks at camera
(alt title: marius and the teenagers)
A.F. Vandevorst for Arnhem Mode Biennale (2011)
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“I could see a world of frescoes and murals surrounded us, their colors deep and vibrant above the dancing flame, and gradually the theme and content beside us came clear. It was the terrible `Triumph of Death’ by Breughel, painted on such a massive scale that all the multitude of ghastly figures towered over us in the gloom, those ruthless skeletons ferrying the helpless dead in a fetid moat or pulling a cart of human skulls, beheading an outstretched corpse or hanging humans from the gallows…. So vivid, so perfect was it, I shuddered.”
– Louis de Pointe du Lac, Interview with the Vampire
Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin – find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less.
Maya Angelou, you will be missed. (via hydeordie)
Italian Girl with Flowers – Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida
1886
merciful-death: #art#[ itlookslikebbykinzlouis ]
Agreed ^_____^
“When the Japanese repair broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something has suffered damage and has a history, it becomes more beautiful.”
This is so eloquently applicable to the VC & the VC fandom, both suffered damage and have a history, both became more beautiful.
Le génie du mal [The genius of evil, aka; Lucifer]; Guillaume Geefs
“The statue was originally a commission for Geefs’ younger brother Joseph, who completed it in 1842 and installed it the following year. It generated controversy at once and was criticized for not representing a Christian ideal. The cathedral administration declared that “this devil is too sublime.” The local press intimated that the work was distracting the “pretty penitent girls” who should have been listening to the sermons.” [x]
[The original ‘sublime’ version shown below, and the ‘revised’ one in the photoset above]
> Make sculpture of the devil
> No this sculpture is too hot for church
> Make another one
> It’s even hotter
This is pretty much my headcanon of Memnoch the Devil. I prefer it this way, rather than in actual canon, which I think indicated it/he was supposed to be made of a black granite.
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