No sympathy for the devil

About

I am an art history student currently living in Canada. This blog is a place for me to keep the things I like, the things I know about, and the things I'd like to know more about. It is by no means meant to be impressive. It is a teaching platform for myself, and perhaps you will learn discover something too.

All content is not owned by me unless otherwise stated. All posts I make will be credited, and reblogs will be credited where none is already present, whenever possible. I am happy to remove any content upon request with good reason, which does not include whiny teenagers claiming "their posts" were "stolen."

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Art

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Historical

Painting
Photography
Printmaking
Collage
Sculpture
Illustration
Installation
Mixed media
Digital art
Video art
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Abstract
Anatomy
Artist(s)
Artists on tumblr
Appropriation
Black and white
Baroque
Chiaroscuro
Chronophotography
Conceptual
Death
Detail
Embrace
Erotic
Expressionism
Facial distortion
Figurative
Fragments
Grotesque
Hands
Impressionism
Light painting
Manipulation
Mannerism
Monochrome
Mouths
Nude
Portrait
Realism
Religious
Renaissance
Romanticism
Sfumato
Skeletal
Versus

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"To hell with them. Nothing hurts if you don’t let it."Ernest Hemingway
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Popular error

Alexander Rodchenko, About That, 1923. Photomontage for Vladimir Mayakovsky’s “Pro Eto”

"I believe I am in Hell, therefore I am."Arthur Rimbaud
(Source: dream--is--my--reality, via sagagronqvist)
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hnota:

Leitaðu mín

Alltaf

sagði mosinn

er ég hér.

Leitaðu mín

á heiðinni

leitaðu mín

hjá steinunum.

Þar vex ég í hljóðleysi

og angan daganna.

Anna S. Björnsdóttir (Vörður, 1993)

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Permalink "Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us."Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time
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Permalink "Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes? (But who guards the guardians themselves?)"Juvenal, Satura VIPermalink "It’s a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind."Naguib Mahfouz
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e. e. cummings

"The girl dreams she is dangerously ill. Suddenly birds come out of her skin and cover her completely … swarms of gnats obscure the sun, the moon, and all the stars except one. That one star falls upon the dreamer." C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols (via milktree)
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Permalink "Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am the fire."Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths
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Permalink "I never linger over such memories, for they have long since lost any emotional significance for me. There was no way I could restore them to life except by transforming them and making them unrecognizable, at first glance, to my eyes, solely because during that deformation they acquired the lewdest of meanings."Georges Bataille, Story of the EyePermalink "

My bad habit.

Always trying not to strike up another
when the windows are open
and I get that nervous feeling.
-

I may not be lighting cigarettes, but
that memory of
you holding me tight to you,
lest I get up and answer the phone,
is the tar in my lungs.

I wonder if I will ever
just
…cough it up.

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"History is merely a list of surprises… It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again. Please write that down."Dr. Wilbur Swain, Slapstick (Kurt Vonnegut)Permalink