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illustratus · 2 months

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Landscape with Overthrown Statue by Carel Willink

#carel willink #art #magic realism #imaginary realism #statues #statue #landscape #europe #european

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collectionstilllife · 2 months

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Miriam Escofet (Spanish, b. 1967) • The Heavans • Oil on linen

#art #painting #fine art #oil painting #artist #contemporary painting #woman painter #still life #contemporary realism #magic realism #art of the still life blog #miriam escofet #art blogs on tumblr #art lovers on tumblr

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smokefalls · 5 months

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Her heart was heavy because it was open, and so things filled it, and so things rushed out of it, but still the heart kept beating, tough and frighteningly powerful and meaning to shrug off the rest of her and continue on its own.

Helen Oyeyemi, Mr. Fox

#Helen Oyeyemi #Mr. Fox #quote #fiction #magic realism #2023 reads

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oliverscarlin · 6 months

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PaJaMa, Paul Cadmus and Jared French, Fire Island, 1941

#pajama collective #paul cadmus #jared french #margaret french #fire island #photography #queer art #magic realism

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permament-witzelsucht · 1 year

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Carel Willink, 1900-1983, Dutch - Chateau en Espagne, c.1939

#Carel Willink #realism #magic realism #cityscape #ancient rome #ancient roman architecture #roman architecture #architecture #skyscape #ruins #statue #Apollo Belvedere #sculpture #20th century art #dark academia #light academia #painting #oil painting

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internationalemeteorologie · 10 months

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Walter Gramatté

Still life with night city view. 1922-23

#walter gramatte #still life art #expressionism #magic realism #night and the city #german artist #brücke-museum berlin #walter gramatté

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dkaism · 17 days

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petting the solar eclipse

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#solar eclipse #surreal art #surrealism #unreality #weirdcore #magic realism #megalophobia

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4eternal-life · 1 month

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Ivan Marchuk (Ukrainian/Soviet, b.1936)

The sun rose over the Dnipro, 2003

Acrylic paint on canvas Pliontanism @ Wikimedia Commons

#ivan marchuk #ukrainian art #pliontanism #dnipro #soviet art #dnipro river #soviet nonconformist art #nonconformism #landscapes #magic realism #art #mu art #mu #wikimedia commons #50 art #50 notes #100 art #100 notes

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merildae · 1 month

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Transfigure, 2024

16 x26 in

Oil on canvas

#my art #oil painting #traditional art #self portrait #painting #saint sebastian #trans artist #lgbt art #figure painting #surrealism #magic realism #a little Apollo and Daphne #rib cage

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mostlysignssomeportents · 2 months

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Kelly Link's "Book of Love"

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/13/the-kissing-song/#wrack-and-roll

Kelly Link is one of science fiction's most important writers, a master of the short story to rank with the likes of Ted Chiang. For a decade, Kelly's friends have traded whispers that she was working on a novel – a giant novel – and the rumors were true and the novel is glorious and you will love it:

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/book-of-love-9781804548455/

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/239722/the-book-of-love-by-kelly-link/

It's called The Book of Love and it's massive – 650 pages! It is glorious. It is tricky.

If you've read Link's short stories (which honestly, you must read), you know her signature move: a bone-dry witty delivery, used to spin tales of deceptive whimsy and quirkiness, disarming you with daffiness while she sets the hook and yanks. That's the unmistakeable, inimitable texture of a Kelly Link story: deft literary brushstrokes, painting a picture so charming and silly that you don't even notice when she cuts you without mercy.

Turns out that she can quite handily do this for hundreds of pages, and the effect only gets better when it's given space to unfold.

Hard to tell you about this one without spoilers! But I'll tell you this much. It's a story about three teenaged friends who return from death and find themselves in the music room at their high school, face to face with their mild-mannered music teacher, Mr Anabin. Anabin explains what's happened in frustratingly cryptic – and very emphatic – terms, but is interrupted when a sinister shape-shifting wolf enters the music room.

This is Bogomil, and whenever he speaks, Mr Anabin turns his back – and vice versa. Anabin and Bogomil appear to be rivals, and Bogomil may or may not have been the keeper of the land of the dead from which the three have escaped. There's also a forth, a tattered shade who's been dead so long they don't remember who they are or anything about themselves. Bogomil would like to take the four back to the deadlands, but Anabin proposes a contest and Bogomil agrees – but no one explains the contest or its rules (or even its stakes) to the four dead teenagers.

That's the wind up. The pitch that follows is flawless, a long and twisting mystery about friendship, love, queerness, rock-and-roll, stardom, parenthood, loyalty, lust and duty. There's a terrifying elder god of Lovecraftian proportions. There are ghosts upon ghosts. There are ancient grudges. There are sudden revelations that come from unexpected angles but are, in retrospect, perfectly set up.

More than anything, there are characters. It's impossible not to love Link's characters, despite (because of) their self-destructive choices and their impossible dilemmas. They are so sweet, but they are also by turns mean and spiteful and resentful, like the pinch of salt that transforms a caramel from inedible spun sugar into something that bites even as it delights.

These characters, so very likable, are often dead or at death's door, and that peril propels the story like an unstoppable locomotive. From the very start, it's clear that some of them can't survive to the end, and Link is merciless in making you root for all of them, even though this means rooting against them all. This, in turn, creates moments of toe-curling, sublime horror.

Link has built a complex machine with more moving parts than anyone has any business being able to keep track of. And yet, each of these parts meshes flawlessly with all the others. The book ends with such triumphant perfection that it lingers long after you put it down. I can't wait to read this one again.

#pluralistic #romance #books #reviews #kelly link #magic realism #horror #gift guide #fantasy #cthulhoid #fhtagn #rock and roll #queer

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silvascribble · 4 months

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Bottled lake water

#art #my art #silvascribbles #silvascribble #I can’t remember if I posted this already #style #turtle #fish #water #bottled water #surrealism #magic realism #magic #koi #frog #lake #pond

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icecreamwithjackdaniels · 5 months

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"He said that people who loved [animals] to excess were capable of the worst cruelties toward human beings. He said that dogs were not loyal but servile, that cats were opportunists and traitors, that peacocks were heralds of death, that macaws were simply decorative annoyances, that rabbits fomented greed, that monkeys carried the fever of lust, and that roosters were damned because they had been complicit in the three denials of Christ."

— Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera, 1985