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"There are two sides to every person. One that we reveal to the world and another we keep hidden inside. A duality governed by the balance of light and darkness." ('Emily Thorne')
Walter de la Mare, "Me"
📷me
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Oscar Droege (1898-1983), the German master of woodcuts. I particularly like his wonderfully delicate trees and his luminous colours, especially his various blues.
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The day passes
in a horizon of colors
all meeting
less severe in loveliness
the petals fallen now well back
till flower touches flower
all round
at the petal tips
merging into one flower
W. Carlos Williams
from "The Crimson Cyclamen"
@ValerieCalleno1
art
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Tara Turner, the fine art photographer, a digital artist who creates such appealing, imaginative pieces of work. "Some things", she says, "can't only be seen... they must be felt".
The Subdued Tree
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Not far away we saw the port,
the strange, old-fashioned, silent town,
the lighthouse, the dismantled fort,
the wooden houses, quaint and brown...
~H. W. Longfellow
(full poem👇)
a
#watercolor
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@lgvd
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Went down to the river, sot me down an' listened,
Heard de water talkin' quiet, quiet lak an' slow:
"Ain' no need fo' hurry, take yo' time, take yo' time..."
Heard it sayin' "Baby, hyeahs de way life go..."
Sterling A. Brown
🎨
@ValerieCalleno1
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Drawing made of a single line, by the Croatian graphic artist, Paolo Ceric.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
Tennessee Williams, Orpheus Descending
Ray Hendershot, Milkhouse
#watercolor
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"Some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one’s own castle."
Franz Kafka (aged 20), in a letter to Oskar Pollak
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@twschaller
Aren't those shapes and shadows just incredible?! To think he processed them to woodcuts, makes it even more extraordinary! I found some more. My absolute favorite is still the left image from those three I posted yesterday.
Oscar Droege
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Berndnaut Smilde creates fluffy clouds in locations where nature never would place them. The Dutch artist’s sculptures last five seconds—10 seconds tops—before they disappear.
from
National Geographic, Feb.14, 2018
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An incredible shot by the Indian photographer, Arun Kumar. Kingfisher and Great Egret.
@lgvd
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Beautiful, foggy landscapes by the Russian watercolorist Ilya Ibrayev.
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"People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned."
James Baldwin
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"The painter tumbles like a blind man in the darkness of the white canvas. The light that slowly appears is paradoxically created by the artist who draws one black curve after another."
(Picasso)
drawing by
@twschaller
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Watercolor portraits by the Chinese artist Guan Weixing (b.1949).
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"Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road."
Jack Kerouac -
#BOTD
a 100 years ago.
On the road (in Devon), one of my favorite watercolors by another Kerouac enthusiast :)
@twschaller
- "Drive" (2016)
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A fine art photographer & digital artist, Tara Turner captures the beauty of her surrounding environment in an ingenious way. Many of her works look like abstract paintings but they are a combination of photography and digital art.
"Tree Spirits..."
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How can a painting, with an economy of details, evoke so much feeling? The place depicted, though great, is almost irrelevant, as you're in fact looking at the emotion it conjured.
"True art lies in a reality that is felt." - Odilon Redon
🖌
@twschaller
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"Without imagination we would not have the wherewithal to challenge certainty, and we could never rise above ourselves."
- Mark Helprin
'The House was Blue'
by Thomas W. Schaller
@twschaller
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While browsing in second-hand bookshop, G.B Shaw was amused to find a copy of one of his own works which he had inscribed for a friend: "To --, with esteem"
He purchased the book and returned it to the friend with a 2nd inscription: "With renewed esteem"
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Two more drawings by the great Victor Hugo.
"Le phare d'Eddystone" (1866)
"La Tougue en 1835" (1876)
pen and brown ink wash on laid paper.
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"Some days seem to fit together like a stained glass window. A hundred little pieces of different color and mood that, when combined, create a complete picture."
~Maggie Stiefvater
Eileen McGann
#watercolors
from the stained glass series.
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"And yet, we shouldn’t have needed the cataclysm to love life today.
It would have been enough to think that we are humans, and that death may come this evening."
~Marcel Proust
Alan Rickman, reciting a timely text by Proust (!) Many thanks to
@FredrikKbg1
!
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"Paintings. Or the collapse of time in images." - Paul Auster
'View of Verona' by
@twschaller
From his course: Design and the Power of Imagination (month 5)
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It is the inner life, the life of the soul, that holds who you truly are.
~Jan Blencowe
Amedeo Bocchi (1883-1976)
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Nothing describes the work of Jakub Schikaneder better than Leonardo da Vinci's words: "Painting is poetry that is seen"
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Amazing paintings by Alex Venezia (b.1993). Primarily a self taught painter, he first became aware of the transcendent power of art during a high-school art lesson on chiaroscuro, while examining the works of Caravaggio.
(TY
@newfingernail
for mentioning him)
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There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
☆Simone Weil☆
🎨
@ampomata
"Soothing Blue"
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If we had just two words to describe the work of Laurent Parcelier (b.1962), they would probably be: poetry & light.
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The beauty of watercolours lies in the white of the paper, the lightness, the movement, the transparency, the vibrant colours.
I paint from nature& I bow before the beauty & the forces of the Nature & the simple, ordinary things around us.
Atanas Matsoureff
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When I was young, I painted the beauty I saw in the world around me. As I got older, it became more important to paint the felt world- to dive beneath the surface and represent the internal, intrinsic qualities of my subject matter.
~ Dan McCaw
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"The architect who combines in his being the powers of vision, of imagination, of intellect, of sympathy with human need and the power to interpret them in a language vernacular and time, is he who shall create poems in stone."
- Louis H. Sullivan
.
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"The landscape is almost incidental, my main objectives are to try and capture the atmosphere and ‘spirit’ of a place. Ultimately it is the mood and light within the painting which becomes the central theme."
Harry Brioche (b.1965)
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At night everything is more intense, more true. The echo of words that have been spoken during the day takes on a new and deeper meaning. 💫
Elie Wiesel
Jef Bourgeau, Fool Moon over Lake Arcadia
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‘The River at Ascutney’, c. 1942, oil on board, by Maxfield Parrish (1870–1966)
study and final painting
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"For there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men."
('Moby-Dick') ✒
Herman Melville, born on this day, in 1819.
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There are ghosts of yourself scattered everywhere.
Whispers of a moment suspended in time
Where every life that you’ve brushed up against
Now lives with a piece of you trapped in their mind.
~Erin Hanson
🎨
@twschaller
"Echoes"
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Solid flesh can never live up to the bright shadow cast by its absence. Time & distance blur the edges. Then, suddenly, the beloved has arrived, and it's noon with its merciless light, every spot & pore & wrinkle & bristle stands clear. *
🎨Signed: Huang, 2014. It's all I know.
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I found family photos at the back of a drawer today. This is my mum as a young woman. They say true beauty is a reflection of the soul. She never lost hers when youth was gone. I miss you mum. Miss your kindness, your wit, your humor. And I miss your love.
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Turner's 'Snowstorm' was in his time said to look as if it had been painted with cream, chocolate, eggs & jelly and dismissed as soap suds and whitewash.
Ruskin knew better: "one of the grandest statements of sea- motion, mist &light, ever put on canvas."
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Once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won't be the same person who walked in. (1/2)
Haruki Murakami
'After the Storm', by
@twschaller
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"There is a time, between night and day, when landscapes sleep. Only the earliest riser sees that hour. Or the all-night traveller..."
(Phillipa Pearce,
"Tom's Midnight Garden")
Little House by the Lake
by Tom
@twschaller
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"We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains..."
李白 Li Bai
"Shadows of the San Jacinto" by Thomas W. Schaller
@twschaller
#California
#watercolor
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“You can’t blame movies for a world that is so fucked up that anything can trigger it. That’s what the movie is about. It's not a call to action. If anything, it’s a call to self-reflection to society.”
Director Todd Phillips on 'Joker'
📷 Joaquin Phoenix
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The miracles of the church rest not upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer. For a moment, our eyes can see, our ears can hear what is there about us, always.
Willa Cather
@twschaller
church* light
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"In my paintings I want to express the joy and importance of colour, texture, energy and vibrancy, with an awareness of space and construction. A celebration of life - taking risks so creating the unexpected."
~ Wilhelmina Barns-Graham
(1912- 2004)
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"The vibrant season.
Chroma of amber and rust.
Nature’s masterpiece."
#watercolor
by
@mikeb4i8
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S. Adjiashvili's rooms are the kind of which Tanizaki wrote in his book 'In praise of shadows'. Where you sense "a fear that you might lose all consciousness of the passage of time, that untold years might pass and you should find you had grown old and gray"
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"Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself."
C.G. Jung
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"Night kneels at your feet like a gypsy glistening with jewels."
~Tracy K. Smith
Dao Hai Phong, 'Story Under the Moon'
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"The struggle for simplicity is a painful search for a form adequate to the truth you have grasped"
~ Andrei Tarkovsky
Christophe Jacrot, The Red House,
from the series 'Snjór' (snow in Islandic).
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I believe in wonder. I look for it in my life every day; I find it in the most ordinary things.
~Keith Carter
📷 Mehmet Unal
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"Each of us chooses the tone for telling his or her own story. I live among diffuse shadings, veiled mysteries, uncertainties; the tone of telling my life is closer to that of a portrait in sepia."
~Isabel Allende
🖌
@twschaller
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Hope is not a form of guarantee, it is a form of energy, and very frequently that energy is strongest in circumstances that are very dark.
John Berger, Bento's Sketchbook
@twschaller
"Hope"
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"I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos, a stillness which characterizes prayer, too." Saul Bellow
"All true artists create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness." Eckhart Tolle
🎨
@SarahjevsEvans
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"We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality, we create it to be able to stay."
-Lynda Barry
Imaginary Cityscapes by
@twschaller
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"Search out, subject all things to your brush. But in all, see that you find the hidden soul, and most of all, strive to attain to the grand secret of creation. Blessed is the elect one who masters that!"
(Nikolai Gogol)
🖌
@twschaller
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The Rookery. Burnham and Root. Completed in 1888. Frank Lloyd Wright redesigned the skylit lobby in 1905. Chicago, Illinois.
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Leonardo obviously stayed true to his own words: "art is never finished, only abandoned."
The Leonardo Da Vinci 500 year retrospective at the Louvre, Paris reveals a conflicted, frustrated Leonardo. A man who hated completing paintings & only felt free when conducting research into the hidden (mathematical, scientific, Platonic) rules beneath the surface of the world.
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'My images speak of inner feelings which we often hide in our daily life.' - Catrin Welz-Stein
#art
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"Nature always wears the colors of the spirit."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tara Turner, A party in the Forest
#photography
#digitalart
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Sometimes, we all need a word of encouragement to be able to move on...
My beautiful, faithful boy ❤
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There is no art without a poetic aim. There is a species of emotion particular to painting, an effect that results from a certain arrangement of colors, of light, of shadow. It is this that one calls the music of painting.*
@twschaller
Piano, Pfanner Palace
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"It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful." - Oscar Wilde
🖌 Denis Oktyabr
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"Although my intention is not to create an image that would inherently be described as painterly, I do try to convey the feeling of that moment perhaps without necessarily recording its exact details, like journalistic photography would." J.H
Jamie Heiden 📷
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Take a look at this wonderful watercolor by
@PamJohns6
Aren't those shadows just beautiful? You can see more of Pam Johns' work here 👇
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"My idea of Heaven is to wake up, have a good breakfast, and spend the rest of the day drawing."
Peter Falk
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Cityscapes by Tibor Nagy, an artist born and raised in a small town in Slovakia.
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“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”
~Joseph Campbell
Oil paintings by James Naughton
- caves and the way intense light enters complete darkness...
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"We think that art demands special knowledge; we demand some higher meaning from an author, but the work must act directly on our hearts, or it has no meaning at all."
~Andrei Tarkovsky
"Gone" by Thomas W. Schaller
@twschaller
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One of my favorite things about Faith, was said by Madeleine L'Engle: "Some things have to be believed to be seen".
🎨
@twschaller
"Faith"
A wonderful painting. Look at that ray of light streaming through the window like a manifestation of grace...
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Because watercolor actually moves on the paper, it is the most active of all mediums, almost a performance art.
(Nita Engle)
"After the Flood"
by
@ChrisStephenArt
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"There are empty rooms, and then there are rooms that feel crowded, corner to corner, with absence."
~Trenton Lee Stewart
Paintings by Simeon Nijenhuis
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"If Hugo had chosen to become a painter rather then a writer, he would have been one of the greatest of the century."
~ Eugène Delacroix
Works by Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
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Gao Xingjian has described his ink works as “more than self- expression, self- purification.” After suffering political persecution and being forced to destroy his paintings during the Cultural Revolution, he fled China to begin a life in exile in 1987.
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The Canadian artist David Lidbetter looks for inspiration in bleak and desolate landscapes.
"My landscapes must have an emotional content. Feelings of isolation, solitude and quiet pervade in my work. I am not interested in painting pretty pictures" D.L
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"Many works are talked about. But the one which reduces us to silence is the most beautiful."
Paul Valéry, Cahiers 2
@twschaller
- Snow Day, Ohio
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A nostalgic Paris, in the incredible watercolors of Thierry Duval 🖌
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"I have been one acquainted with the night.
I have walked out in rain -and back in rain.
I have outwalked the furthest city light..."
-Robert Frost,
#BOTD
in 1874-
"Acquainted with the Night"
watercolors by Tom
@twschaller
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There is nothing you have to do now
but stay here.
Look at them, the dark stars
that have made you -
Listen. Be still
and listen.
The moon is always here to say
just wait, wait,
and the parting of the darkness will change you.
~Joseph Fasano *
🎨 Devin Leonardi (1981-2014)
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"By painting something as simply as possible, you can get to the spirit of it, and then subject and artist reveal themselves to each other." (David Lussier)
art by
@alicecgagnon1
🤍
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"We leave something of ourselves behind, when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there."
(Pascal Mercier)
#home
🖌 Tom Schaller
@twschaller
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"There is also the equal and opposite temptation to look at the world as though it were an extension of the imaginary..."
(Paul Austen)
Imaginary Falconer
by
@twschaller
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"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
📖 "De Profundis"
Oscar Wilde
#BOTD
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What could the world be doing while staying at home? The Italian illustrator Pierpaolo Rovero says it with his fabulous illustrations.
New York reads, Paris plays music, Genoa hugs, Bruxelles prepares breakfast.
#StayAtHome
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"A good picture is equivalent to a good deed." -Vincent van Gogh
Still operational today and now named Café Van Gogh, this is the café that Van Gogh painted at night, in The Café Terrace on the Place du Forum, Arles.
Café Van Gogh, by
@HeystekJ
#watercolor
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trees do not fear failure
rebellion
the cinder of time sifting
into nothingness
trees can see mortals
see our sins
see
what consumes us
that's why trees cling to the sky
with their branches high above
Zoltán Böszörményi
Jan Mankes, Row of trees (1915)
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A uniquely beautiful storytelling with the brush. Not so much about a place to live, but of the mind living there, or imagining it. The inner world versus the outer world?
From a Window - Inside Out, by
@twschaller
. Thought provoking as always.
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