Jae Liu
Sweeping, expressive strokes, underneath which seems to seethe so much inform Jae Liu’s work with a dense character that I like a lot; that, combined with her mastery of different styles makes for a great oeuvre.
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Source: chromaticwatch
I really wish I could paint in this classical style, because then I would paint all the queerpunx and make them look like “rulers” of the 17th century
*in scare quotes because ideally said queerpunx would be anarchists and therefore they wouldn’t actually rule anything
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Source: gagweed
My dear Sir
Art is useless because its aim is simply to create a mood. It is not meant to instruct, or to influence action in any way. It is superbly sterile, and the note of its pleasure is sterility. If the contemplation of a work of art is followed by activity of any kind, the work is either of a very second-rate order, or the spectator has failed to realise the complete artistic impression.
A work of art is useless as a flower is useless. A flower blossoms for its own joy. We gain a moment of joy by looking at it. That is all that is to be said about our relations to flowers. Of course man may sell the flower, and so make it useful to him, but this has nothing to do with the flower. It is not part of its essence. It is accidental. It is a misuse. All this is I fear very obscure. But the subject is a long one.
Truly yours,
Oscar Wilde (x)
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Source: ethicveganFOREVER THE GREATEST LotR EXTRA EVER
DIRTY BUGGERS oh my god I need a moment
OMGOMGOMGOMG~ ADFGHJKL!!!! -dies-
That little emoticon at the end of a threatening sentence is actually the scariest thing in internet existence
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Source: heathyr
Amputation Instruments: saw, 18th. cent., by Lesueur, knife, c.1850, by
Eberle of ‘A’ddorf’; saw, 17th. cent (?) and trepan.
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Source: images.wellcome.ac.uk
