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Valentina; 1994; this is just a collection of things that has called my attention.
detail of The Virgin by Gustav Klimt
March 21st 2012 at 07:30PM | 36 notes
detail of Hope I by Gustav Klimt
March 10th 2012 at 07:31PM | 11 notes
La Toilette, Henri Toulouse Lautrec
January 30th 2012 at 06:15PM | 23 notes
skull of a skeleton with a burning cigarette by Vincent Van Gogh
October 6th 2011 at 09:32PM | 14 notes
I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.
― Vincent van Gogh (via hargreavesstudios)

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October 6th 2011 at 09:22PM | 4 notes
furrylittlepeach:

‘Jar of Stars II’ - September, 2011.
October 1st 2011 at 05:39PM | 50,076 notes
welovepaintings:

George Frederick Watts (1817-1904)
Hope
1886
Oil on canvas
142 x 111
Tate Collection
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In the Bible (Hebrews, 6:19), hope is ‘an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil.’ Here, Hope is blindfolded, seated on a globe and playing a lyre of which all but one of the strings are broken. Watts wanted to find an original approach to allegory on universal themes. But Hope’s attempts to make music appear futile and several critics argued that the work might have been more appropriately titled Despair. Watts explained that ‘Hope need not mean expectancy. It suggests here rather the music which can come from the remaining chord’.
Tate.org.uk
September 7th 2011 at 09:53PM | 122 notes
thepowerofart:

Vincent van Gogh, Roses, 1890.
August 27th 2011 at 03:23PM | 11,094 notes