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Guess who received an original Brooks Kelly for their birthday?...

Thu, 23 May 2013 19:46:00 -0400

Guess who received an original Brooks Kelly for their birthday? This girl.

monstography: The first known mermaid stories appeared in...

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:41:09 -0400

The first known mermaid stories appeared in Assyria, ca. 1000 BC. The goddess Atargatis, mother of Assyrian queen Semiramis, loved a mortal shepherd and unintentionally killed him. Ashamed, she jumped into a lake to take the form of a fish, but the waters would not conceal her divine beauty. Thereafter, she took the form of a mermaid—human above the waist, fish below—though the earliest representations of Atargatis showed her as a fish with a human head and arm, similar to the Babylonian god Ea. The Greeks recognized Atargatis under the name Derketo. Prior to 546 BC, the Milesian philosopher Anaximander proposed that mankind had sprung from an aquatic species of animal. He thought that humans, with their extended infancy, could not have survived otherwise.

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Wed, 22 May 2013 17:34:36 -0400

"A thinking woman sleeps with monsters."

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:32:44 -0400

“A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.”

- Adrienne Rich (via vulpeaverde)

sullenmoons: Mermaids at Play - Arnold Bocklin, 1886

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:30:53 -0400

sullenmoons:

Mermaids at Play - Arnold Bocklin, 1886

gallowhill: Alberto Giacometti in his Paris studio, 1960 Photo...

Tue, 21 May 2013 21:33:02 -0400

gallowhill:

Alberto Giacometti in his Paris studio, 1960

Photo by Ernst Scheidegger

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Tue, 21 May 2013 19:50:46 -0400

lecerise: Alice, Jan Svankmajer

Tue, 21 May 2013 19:17:21 -0400

lecerise:

Alice, Jan Svankmajer

unparadise: Jabberwocky (1971)

Sun, 19 May 2013 15:16:28 -0400

unparadise:

Jabberwocky (1971)

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Sun, 19 May 2013 11:15:22 -0400

if you love art history like me, this is the blog for you

Sat, 18 May 2013 20:40:02 -0400

if you love art history like me, this is the blog for you

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Sat, 18 May 2013 20:31:01 -0400

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Fri, 17 May 2013 19:50:55 -0400

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Fri, 17 May 2013 17:05:00 -0400

"If they don’t need you, it’s okay. You do not live for other people."

Thu, 16 May 2013 20:53:32 -0400

“If they don’t need you, it’s okay. You do not live for other people.”

- Kyo (via witchi)

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Tue, 14 May 2013 19:37:23 -0400

Willem de Kooning, Rosy Fingered Dawn at Louise Point, 1963

Tue, 14 May 2013 17:41:33 -0400

Willem de Kooning, Rosy Fingered Dawn at Louise Point, 1963

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Tue, 14 May 2013 07:26:35 -0400

compelling-paintings: Cai Guo-Qiang Desire for Zero Gravity,...

Mon, 13 May 2013 18:57:11 -0400

compelling-paintings:

Cai Guo-Qiang

Desire for Zero Gravity, 2012

gunpowder on canvas

I know this isn’t a painting but I love this man and all his artwork. so innovative, interesting and simply complex.