La Meditation, Detail.

We don't have our parents

Füsun Ürkün

“Lat be thy wepyng and thi drerynesse, And lat us lissen wo with oother speche; So may thy woful tme seme lesse.”

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Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde (Norton Critical Editions)

“Leave your anguish, leave your sighs, and mitigate your sorrow by talking, becase doing this makes suffering pass…”

Giovanni Boccaccio, Il Filostrato (Norton Critical Editions)

The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1920–1923

Kibong Rhee - The last seduction, 2020

“So, if you are too tired to speak, sit next to me because I, too, am fluent in silence.”

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R. Arnold (via surqrised)

Gotta get myself a T-shirt with this printed on…

Skull Wearing a Wreath of Flowers, Thomas Satterwhite Noble, circa. 1874

“In the war film, a soldier can hold his buddy—as long as his buddy is dying on the battlefield. In the western, Butch Cassidy can wash the Sundance Kid’s naked flesh—as long as it is wounded. In the boxing film, a trainer can rub the well-developed torso and sinewy back of his protege—as long as it is bruised. In the crime film, a mob lieutenant can embrace his boss like a lover—as long as he is riddled with bullets. 

Violence makes the homo-eroticism of many “male” genres invisible; it is a structural mechanism of plausible deniability.”

–Tarantino’s Incarnational Theology: Reservoir Dogs, Crucifixions, and Spectacular Violence. Kent L. Brintnall.

hi i hope you don't mind me asking! who are some of the artists that inspire your work and if any art movements too, which ones? i absolutely adore your work and wanna dive into the artists that inspire you because you fill me with so much inspiration 💫

Duilio Cambellotti

Paul Jouve

Norbertine Bresslern-Roth

J. C. Leyendecker

Théophile Alexandre Steinlen

Akseli Gallen-Kallela

Harry Clarke

Nico Marlet

Mike Mignola

Carl Otto Czeschka

Alphonse Mucha

Klaus Haapaniemi

Sanna Annukka

Takato Yamamoto

Ivan Bilibin

Gennady Pavlishin

Evgeni Rachev

Ludvig Hohlwein

Tove Jansson

Just to name a few that have influenced me a lot and continue to live in my head permanently! Sorry about the long post, I thought it'd be helpful if I included examples.

My favorite art movement is art nouveau, I like poster art and antique fairytale illustrations a lot, and in terms of art history I'm most interested in renaissance, early baroque and gloomy 19th century romanticism.