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Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate. C.G. Jung
Madonna and Child in a Niche Luca della Robbia ca. 1460 “like fragments of the milky sky itself, fallen into the cool streets, and breaking into the darkened churches.” ~Walter Paret (19th century art critic) #dellarobbia #glazedterracotta #renaissancemasters #italianmasters #metropolitanmuseum
Our greatest sin may be choosing to remain unconscious, in spite of all the evidence that mounts through the years that other elements within us are actively making choices on our behalf, often with disastrous consequences.~James Hollis
The Soul as Guide, Showing the Way Watercolor by William Blake for Dante's Purgatorio, Canto IV, 1827 "This mountain's of such sort that climbing it is hardest at the start; but as we rise, the slope grows less unkind." #romanticism #watercolors #spiritualart #dante #divinecomedy
Every spoken word betrays us. The only tolerable form of communication is the written word, since it isn’t a stone in a bridge between souls but a ray of light between stars.~Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
Christ Pantocrator mosaic in the apse of the Cefalù Cathedral in Sicily. Completed around 1148 by Constantinople craftsmen. #bizantineart #mosaics #cefalu #sicily #medievalart #middleages #arthistory
“Your unconscious is a particle and at the same time the totality of the cosmos.”~Alejandro Jodorowski, Psychomagic
«Estoy y estuve en muchos ojos, yo solo soy la memoria y la memoria que de mí se tenga». ~ Elena Garro #escritoraslatinas #escritorasmexicanas #mujeresescritoras #latinawriters #womenwriters #mexicanwriters
Débora Arango - Esquizofrenia, 1949 - Matilde posando como actriz retirada, 1942 - La masacre del 9 de abril, 1948 - Las monjas y el cardenal, 1970 #colombianartists #womenartists #tornexpressionism #arthistory
Wifredo Lam: The Power of Art, Exile, and Transformation www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTnx... #art #ArtHistory #cuba
Wifredo Lam: The Power of Art, Exile, and Transformation
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The Trees have Ears and the Field has Eyes Hieronymus Bosch, 1500 "One way to stop seeing trees, or rivers, or hills, only as 'natural resources,' is to class them as fellow beings—as kinfolk.” ~ Ursula Le Guin #northernrenaissance #netherlandishart #arthistory
A culture cannot evolve without honest, powerful storytelling. When a society repeatedly experiences glossy, hollowed-out, pseudo-stories, it degenerates. We need true satires, tragedies, & comedies that shine a clean light into dingy corners of the human psyche & society.~Robert McKee
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use www.openculture.com/2024/11/the-...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use
Update: The Metropolitan Museum of Art has put online 492,000 high-resolution images of artistic works. Even better, the museum has placed the vast majority of these images into the public domain, mea...
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Singing Man Jonathan Borofsky, 1994 "…I am fully aware that I was once physically part of a female human being... When male and female energies combine with grace and balance, all things are in harmony and peace and creativity is at its peak." #conceptualart #neosurrealism #sculpture #arthistory
Sandro Botticelli Birth of Venus, mid 1480s Primavera, early 1480s “I wear myself out trying to render the orange trees so that they're not stiff but like those I saw by Botticelli in Florence. It's a dream that won't come true.” ~Berthe Morisot #florentinerenaissance #florentineschool #arthistory
Landscape from a Dream Paul Nash, 1938 “I believed that by a process of what I can only describe as inward dilation of the eyes I could increase my actual vision.” #surrealism #britishmodernism #arthistory
Beatriz Gonzalez Los Suicidas del Sisga No 1, 1965 Ánimas benditas, 1967 La pesca milagrosa, 1992 Empalizada, 2001 "Art says things that history cannot.” #artistascolombianas #colombianartists #popart #conceptualart #arthistory
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) -El caballero de la mano en el pecho, 1580 -El entierro del Conde de Orgaz, 1586 -Vista de Toledo, 1600 #mannerism #spanishrenaissance #counterreformation #spanishmysticism #arthistory
Consuelo Kanaga Frances with a Flower, 1932 She Is a Tree of Life, 1950 “Most people try to be striking to catch the eye. I think the thing is not to catch the eye but the spirit.” #photojournalism #modernism #groupf64 #womenartists #photography #arthistory
The Lacemaker Johannes Vermeer, 1670 “Vermeer is not a sun painter, but rather a moon-painter – like Uccello – that’s good, it is the pure, final stage of art, the moment when it becomes more real than reality.” ~Arshile Gorky #dutchbaroque #delftschool #dutchgoldenage #genrepainting #arthistory
In 1819, Madrid’s Museo del Prado opened to the public, transforming a royal collection into a national museum and reshaping how European masterpieces were preserved, studied, and shared with society at large. #ArtHistory
Self portraits by four artists: Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, Self-Portrait with Daughter Julie, 1789 Paula Modersohn-Becker, Self-Portrait with Hat and Veil, 1907 Amadeo Modigliani, Self Portrait, 1919 Stanley Spencer, Self-Portrait with Patricia Preece, 1937 #selfportraits #arthistory
New York City Piet Mondrian, 1942 “To approach the spiritual in art, one will make as little use as possible of reality, because reality is opposed to the spiritual. ” #destijl #thestyle #neoplasticism #modernart #dutchartists #arthistory
El mismo modelo para distintos personajes: Santo Tomás y el rey Melchor, de Rubens
Window or Wall Sign Bruce Nauman, 1967 "My work is basically an outgrowth of the anger I feel about the human condition. The aspects of it that make me angry are our capacity for cruelty and the ability people have to ignore situations they don't like.” #postminimalism #arthistory #conceptualart
Woman I Willem de Kooning, 1950-52 “I might work on a painting for a month, but it has too look like I painted it in a minute.” #abstractexpressionism #newyorkschool #figurativepainting #modernart #arthistory
Rosa Bonheur —- The Wounded Eagle, 1870 King of the Forest, 1878 El Cid, 1879 Two Horses, 1889 “…I loved to move among animals. I would study an animal and draw it in the position it took, and when it changed to another position I would draw that.” #animalier #romanticism #womenartists #arthistory
Paul Delvaux The Hands, 1941 Sleeping Venus, 1944 “In my opinion [surrealism] is above all a reawakening of the poetic idea in art, the reintroduction of the subject but in a very particular sense, that of the strange and illogical.” #surrealism #figurativepainting #femalenude #arthistory
Chaos and Nature Andy Goldsworthy, 2007 “We often forget that we are nature. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we've lost our connection to ourselves.” #environmentalart #ephemeralart #landart #photography #arthistory
