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arsvitaest: "Dandelion Seed Balls and Trees" Author: Charles...
"Dandelion Seed Balls and Trees"
Author: Charles Burchfield (American, 1893–1967)
Date: 1917
Medium: Watercolor, gouache and graphite on paper
Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Burchfield’s style was largely developed by the summer of 1915, after his junior year at the Cleveland School of Art, as he sketched and painted constantly in and around Salem, Ohio, “gathering the materials for a lifetime,” according to his journals. Exposed in school to modernist European trends, he developed an almost fauvist use of broad areas of simplified color, enlivened by delightful particularizations of nature, and in 1917 began combining visual motifs projecting human moods, often disturbing, into the pictures. Biographers note his exposure to modernist trends and traditional Chinese painting while in art school, but overlook that the hallucinatory quality in his work may be partly traced to an episode of nervous exhaustion in 1911 while a junior in high school. Determined to record all the area’s flowering plants that spring, he stayed up late at night painting whole bouquets of the blooms and had a bout of what was referred to at the time as “brain fever,” which might now be termed mania. He seems to have learned to use it as source of energy and inspiration. —Source
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GREASED LIGHTNING COMEDY CRUISE: Famous Poems Rewritten as Limericks
GREASED LIGHTNING COMEDY CRUISE: Famous Poems Rewritten as Limericks:
The Raven
There once was a girl named Lenore
And a bird and a bust and a door
And a guy with depression
And a whole lot of questions
And the bird always says “Nevermore.”Footprints in the Sand
There was a man who, at low tide
Would walk with the Lord by his…
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louayarniam: immortalinfernalengines: suchre: grassfire: you...
you ok there lil’ buddy
click the link.
just click the link
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squishythings: allhorns—-andthorns: Watching last week’s Project Runway and I just want to set...
Watching last week’s Project Runway and I just want to set British Dude on fire for mangling his knitting/textile terms. CABLE SWEATERS ARE KNITTED, NOT WOVEN. YOUR TECHNIQUE IS APPLIQUE, NOT “WEAVING.” CABLE KNIT AND ARGYLE ARE NOT THE SAME THING. NOT EVEN A LITTLE BIT. JEEZY CREEZY. YOU ARE A PROFESSIONAL FOR FUCK’S SAKE.
THAT MAN MAKES ME YELL AT MY TV A LOT
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Root beer floats cure many ills.
Root beer floats cure many ills.
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tastefullyoffensive: Bunny Anatomy [via]
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arsvitaest: Dandelion Seeds, Taraxacium officinale Author:...
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kylelaidig: vase with flower on post-it note, 2013
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jaredhenriques: last shot
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kylathegreat: queennubian: fuckyeahfeminists: rhrealitycheck: ...
A 7-year-old girl named Tiana Parker was recently sent home from Deborah Brown Community School, the charter school she attends in Tulsa, Oklahoma, because of her hair. Tiana has dreadlocks and dress code states that “hairstyles such as dreadlocks, afros, mohawks, and other faddish styles are unacceptable.”
Natural hair is not a fad.This is ridiculousness. Please sign my petition! This racist dress code is just another reminder of the long history of making black political. There is nothing unacceptable with natural hair. I wear my afro out 90% of the time. Guess what? My classmates still learn.
The sad part is that Langston U, its sponsor, is an HBCU. It’s terrible how black people internalize racist beliefs about our own bodies and end up making rules like this.
You know but white people with dreads aren’t an issue. It’s just a hair style for you but we are getting kicked out of schools and our children are being denied the ability to wear their hair naturally.
NO you still can’t wear them!Sign & reblog !
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snapandgo: The shit show with Adobe Books/Jack Spade was well publicized and is only one example of...
The shit show with Adobe Books/Jack Spade was well publicized and is only one example of how gentrification is pushing out San Francisco residents and businesses that have contributed to its amazing culture. Here’s another local business, located in the Mission, that’s been punched in the face by gentrification.
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erikkwakkel: Girls versus boys This is a great scene on a great...
Girls versus boys
This is a great scene on a great medieval object. You are looking at the remains of an ivory mirror case, made in fourteenth-century Paris. It depicts a very lively scene: the allegorical Castle of Love, under attack by knights and defended by ladies. It’s a delightful mix of “boys against girls” and “come here, go away”. All individuals want the same thing, but the ladies are playing hard to get. Some knights did make it inside and are about to kiss and frolic. A lady at the right-hand top is impatiently waiting to be courted. You can just imagine the giggles the Parisian lady had while powdering her nose. Perhaps she used the mirror to peek at her secret lover. Perhaps he was standing nearby, building up courage to climb the ladder and give her a kiss.
Pic: mirror case, c. 1350 (Paris, Louvre).
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ageless-aislynn: Boop to turn off kitten.
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bad-postcards: HONEY and BUTTER in your WEENEE Valleydale...
HONEY and BUTTER in your WEENEE
Valleydale HONEE-WEENEE
Non-Fat Dry Milk Added
Artificially Colored
Honey and Butter AddedIs there a bad Anthony Weiner joke here?
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