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arsvitaest: The BirdsPierre Puvis de Chavannes(via as the...

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:41:37 -0500

arsvitaest:

The Birds
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
(via as the clever crow flies)

Hark! A Vagrant

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:55:00 -0500

Hark! A Vagrant

scarlettohara:icicletusks: If you havin’ hull problems I feel...

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:45:15 -0500

scarlettohara:icicletusks:

If you havin’ hull problems I feel bad for you son

Danse Russe by William Carlos Williams

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:53:57 -0500

If when my wife is sleeping
and the baby and Kathleen
are sleeping
and the sun is a flame-white disc
in silken mists
above shining trees,—
if I in my north room
dance naked, grotesquely
before my mirror
waving my shirt round my head
and singing softly to myself:
“I am lonely, lonely.
I was born to be lonely,
I am best so!”
If I admire my arms, my face,
my shoulders, flanks, buttocks
against the yellow drawn shades,

— Who shall say I am not the happy genius of my household?

suicideblonde: The Wounded Deer - Frida Kahlo

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:01:19 -0500

suicideblonde:

The Wounded Deer - Frida Kahlo

therivanqueen: sisterspock: (via bastardette)

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:59:06 -0500

therivanqueen:

sisterspock:

(via bastardette)

sealmaiden: Robert Frank (American, b. Switzerland,...

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:58:19 -0500

sealmaiden:

Robert Frank (American, b. Switzerland, 1924)
Parade—Hoboken, New Jersey, 1955

sealmaiden: Robert Frank (American, b. Switzerland,...

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:58:17 -0500

sealmaiden:

Robert Frank (American, b. Switzerland, 1924)
Trolley—New Orleans, 1955

Without Regret by Eleanor Wilner

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 05:36:53 -0500

Nights, by the light of whatever would burn: tallow, tinder and the silken rope of wick that burns slow, slow we wove the baskets from the long gold strands of wheat that were another silk: worm soul spun the one, yellow seed in the dark soil, the other.

The fields lay fallow, swollen with frost, expectant winter. Mud clung to the edges of our gowns; we had hung back like shadows on the walls of trees and watched. In the little circles that our tapers threw, murdered men rose red in their clanging armor, muttered words that bled through the bars of iron masks: the lord who sold us to the glory fields, lied.

Trumpets without tongues, we wove lilies into the baskets. When they asked us what we meant by these, we’d say “mary, mary” and be still. We lined the baskets on the sill in the barn, where it is always dusk and the cows smell sweet. Now the snow

sifts through the trees, dismembered lace, the white dust of angels, angels. And the ringing of keys that hang in bunches at our waists, and the sound of silk whispering, whispering. There is nothing in the high windows but swirling snow,

the glittering milk of winter. The halls grow chill. The candles flicker. Let them wait who will and think what they want. The lord has gone with the hunt, and the snow, the snow grows thicker. Well he will keep till spring thaw comes. Head, hand, and heart— baskets of wicker, baskets of straw.

The Concert by John Anster Fitzgerald Watercolor on paper.

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 05:21:55 -0500

The Concert by John Anster Fitzgerald

Watercolor on paper.

He finds her and this is the consequence (1870) by Richard...

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 05:06:55 -0500

He finds her and this is the consequence (1870) by Richard Doyle

Lithograph on paper.

A Golden Day Dream by Emily Mary Osborn Oil on canvas.

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 04:51:53 -0500

A Golden Day Dream by Emily Mary Osborn

Oil on canvas.

The Heir to All the Ages (1900) by Thomas Cooper Gotch Oil on...

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 04:36:52 -0500

The Heir to All the Ages (1900) by Thomas Cooper Gotch

Oil on canvas.

The Child in the World (1900) by Thomas Cooper Gotch Watercolor.

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 04:21:54 -0500

The Child in the World (1900) by Thomas Cooper Gotch

Watercolor.

The Delphic Oracle (1899) by John William Godward Oil on canvas.

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 04:05:55 -0500

The Delphic Oracle (1899) by John William Godward

Oil on canvas.

Two Girls Bathing by William Etty Oil on paper laid down on...

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 03:50:51 -0500

Two Girls Bathing by William Etty

Oil on paper laid down on panel.

The Gates of Dawn (1900) by Herbert James Draper Oil on canvas.

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 03:35:58 -0500

The Gates of Dawn (1900) by Herbert James Draper

Oil on canvas.

Pot Pourri (1897) by Herbert James Draper Oil on canvas.

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 03:18:57 -0500

Pot Pourri (1897) by Herbert James Draper

Oil on canvas.

Flying Fish (1910) by Herbert James Draper Oil on canvas.

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 03:03:55 -0500

Flying Fish (1910) by Herbert James Draper

Oil on canvas.

Boreas and Orithiya (pre-1900) by Evelyn de Morgan Oils.

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 02:48:54 -0500

Boreas and Orithiya (pre-1900) by Evelyn de Morgan

Oils.