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Vrubel channelling rays

Horseman, 1890, Mikhail Vrubel

Medium: pencil,paper

#vrubel

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Yard Keepers (Dvorniki), 1913, Pavel Filonov

Medium: brush,graphite,ink,watercolor,paper

#pavelfilonov #filonov #art

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Me: “Adulthood is a trap I just want to live in the Underground.”

The Goblin King watching me:

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Domino Players, 1943, Horace Pippin

#horacepippin #pippin

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Orestes by Euripides, 408 BCE (“…μὴ θεαί μ᾽ οἴστρῳ κατάσχωσι.”)

trans. Michael Wodhull, 1782 (“Lest those Goddesses should seize me/ With frenzy.”)

trans. T. A. Buckley, 1858 (“I fear lest the Goddesses should stop me with their torments.”)

trans. E. P. Coleridge, 1891 (“I am afraid the goddesses will prevent me by madness.”)

trans. Arthur S. Way, 1898 (“Lest the Fiends by madness stay me.”)

trans. Philip Vellacott, 1972 (“This: suppose the Furies drive me mad?”)

trans. Kenneth McLeish, 1997 (“If the goddesses come… another fit…”)

trans. David Kovacs, 2002 (“…the fear that the goddesses may seize me with frenzy.”)

trans. Anne Carson, 2009 (“The ghastly goddessess—they’ll send my wits astray.”)

trans. Ian Johnston, 2010 (“I’m worried the goddesses will stop me with this madness.”)

#translation

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Nervous Heads, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

#ernstkirchner #expressionism #kirchner

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Black Square (3rd version), 1929, Kazimir Malevich

Medium: oil,canvas

#suprematism #kazimirmalevich #malevich

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Girl, 1932, Kazimir Malevich

Medium: oil,canvas

#malevich

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The Port City of Alexandria

Attributed to a member of the Sangallo family (Florence, ca. 1530–1545)

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Legolas pretty quickly gets in the habit of venting about his travelling companions in Elvish, so long as Gandalf & Aragorn aren’t in earshot they’ll never know right?

Then about a week into their journey like

Legolas: *in Elvish, for approximately the 20th time* ugh fucking hobbits, so annoying

Frodo: *also in Elvish, deadpan* yeah we’re the worst

Legolas:

#linguistics #lotr #Tolkien

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Washerwomen, 1911, Natalia Goncharova

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Self-Portrait, 1946, Elaine de Kooning

#art #women #women in art #self-portrait

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Red Balloon, 1922, Paul Klee

Medium: chalk,oil

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Star Maker, Remedios Varo

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Todd Alcott

(via This isn’t happiness)

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on genre

Started reading the witcher books and watching The Mandalorian, and it's a great simple example of how genres work together and contaminate each other. Both come from very specific genres, the "mediaeval' fantasy and the space opera, and both rely on the western: the door flies open, the mysterious stranger with an impenetrable face enters the tavern.

#genre #literature #movies #the mandalorian #the witcher

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Udarnitzi (Record Breaking Workers) at the Factory Krasnaya Zaria, 1931, Pavel Filonov

Medium: oil,canvas

#filonov