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Study of a Girl’s Head, c. 1890
William Adolphe Bouguereau (French, 1825 - 1905)
oil on canvas, paintingpleasantly surprised to see this piece this morning.
drew a sketch of this when I was fourteen during my internship at the AGO. I recall sensations of feeling overwhelmingly enamoured, sketching as if in a trance.
almost ten years have passed since then and to gaze upon it now, I feel a wholeness of lightness and heaviness, emptiness and fulfilment. this unison of striving for perfection and forever floating in incompletion.
always looking outwardly inwards; gazing viscerally into a drop of memory.
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Dizzy Dali Dinner, A Surreal Dinner Hosted by Salvador Dali (1941)
“Surrealist artist Salvador Dali designs and hosts a party held in the Bali Room of the Hotel Del Monte, Monterey, California. The event was titled Night in a Surrealist Forest and it was a fund raiser to help European artists displaced by the war.”
(Source: laughingsquid)
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Enclosed Field behind Saint-Paul Hospital (1889) by Vincent van Gogh
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Field of Grass with a Round Clipped Shrub (1888) by Vincent van Gogh
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Enclosed Wheat Field With Reaper (1889) by Vincent van Gogh
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People are often unable to do anything, imprisoned as they are in I don’t know what kind of terrible, terrible, oh such terrible cage… You cannot always tell what keeps you confined, what immures you, what seems to bury you, and yet you can feel those elusive bars, railings, walls… Do you know what makes the prison disappear? Every deep, genuine affection. Being friends, being brothers, loving, that is what opens the prison, with supreme power, by some magic force. Without these one stays dead. But whenever affection is revived, there life revives.
— Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh, July 1880 -
Untitled (Date Unknown) by Helen Frankenthaler
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Nepenthe (1972) by Helen Frankenthaler
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May 26, Backwards (1961) by Helen Frankenthaler
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Helen Frankenthaler in her New York Studio (1964) by Alexander Liberman
Helen Frankenthaler (1928 - 2011)
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Pearl (1904) by Mikhail Vrubel
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Lilac (1900) by Mikhail Vrubel
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Flowers In A Blue Vase (1886-1987) by Mikhail Vrubel
