Favourite Pictures Of Artists

[free math]

[Adrian]

Samuel Beckett in Tunesia (?)
lovely pic of a great writer

[Wombatz]

One of his favorite places to get plastered was 5 minutes from where I was born.

Samuel Beckett
ne manquez pas à Stuttgart

ne manquez pas à Stuttgart
la longue Rue Neckar
du néant là l'attrait
n'est plus ce qu'il était
tant le soupcon est fort
d'y être déjà et d'ores

(nothing much changed there)

[Wombatz]

[rolandtravy]

Who are these guys?

[Wombatz]

Pals Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris. Quite obviously this is the way to get older. (You can find the change in attitude also in Burne-Jones' art; he started out with next to no talent for painting, but kept pushing and finally in his last decade (he only lived to 65 or so) he became a great painter with a technique completely his own (looks like paint growing/crystallizing on the canvas of its own will)).

[rolandtravy]

Yes! This reminded me of a beautiful quote by Hokusai, the japanese painter, I've read in Henry Miller's "Big sur and the oranges of Hyeronimus Bosch":
“From around the age of six, I had the habit of sketching from life. I became an artist, and from fifty on began producing works that won some reputation, but nothing I did before the age of seventy was worthy of attention. At seventy-three, I began to grasp the structures of birds and beasts, insects and fish, and of the way plants grow. If I go on trying, I will surely understand them still better by the time I am eighty-six, so that by ninety I will have penetrated to their essential nature. At one hundred, I may well have a positively divine understanding of them, while at one hundred and thirty, forty, or more I will have reached the stage where every dot and every stroke I paint will be alive. May Heaven, that grants long life, give me the chance to prove that this is no lie.”

[rolandtravy]

Cy Twombly in Rome:

[Yii]

Hong & Bong (via http://hongsangsoo.tumblr.com/)

[Lao Tsu Ben]

Amira Baraka.

[yonhosago]

he gone

[yonhosago]

Nancy Holt (April 5, 1938 – February 8, 2014)

[yonhosago]

Buster up front, Samuel on the back

[faster]

Chris Kraus

[j-p]

Tarkovsky:


more here: http://immos.livejournal.com/67613.html

[apophenia]

[Wombatz]

(O how the family affections combat
Within this heart, and each hour flings a bomb at
My burning soul! Neither from owl nor from bat
Can peace be gained until I clasp my wombat.)

[MRS]

Ed Dorn, I bet those are Luccheses

[Wombatz]

Frederick Leighton fashion shoot by James Tissot

[lao]

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