Solus Rex

vguiscard:
Henri Matisse, The Piano Lesson, 1916

Henri Matisse, The Piano Lesson, 1916

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Jean Cocteau reading

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When religion, science, and morality are shaken (the last by the strong hand of Nietzsche) and when outer supports threaten to fall, man withdraws his gaze from externals and turns it inwards. Literature, music and art are the most sensitive spheres in which the spiritual revolution makes itself felt. They reflect the dark picture of the present time and show the importance of what was at first only a little point of light noticed by the few.

— Wassily Kandinsky, Concerning the Spiritual in Art

✖ 15 notes ❖ Source: toniiu ⟲ Reblog ✒Wassily Kandinsky ✒quote ✒art

Egon Schiele, Mother and Child, 1908.

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german-expressionists:

Edvard Munch, The Four Sons of Dr. Linde, 1903

✖ 47 notes ❖ Source: german-expressionists ⟲ Reblog ✒Edvard Munch ✒1900's ✒interior ✒portrait ✒Neo-impressionism

blastedheath:

William Nicholson (English, 1872-1949), The Lustre Bowl, 1911. Oil on canvas, 55 x 60 cm. Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh.

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lyghtmylife:

Raffaellino del Garbo, [Italian Early Renaissance Painter, ca.1466-1524], Portrait of a Young Man, c. 1495. Tempera on poplar panel, 42 x 32 cm. Staatliche Museen, Berlin

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sporadicq:

‘Humanistic Book of Hieroglyphs’
This book was probably intended for presentation to Henry VII as a companion volume to the Tabula Cebetis (nearby). It contains a mysterious text known as the Hieroglyphica, believed to be an ancient Greek translation of an Egyptian text. The present manuscript is the earliest illustrated copy of this work and includes a series of hieroglyphic emblems. The image here depicts a crown and sword and the inscription below praises the monarch as the preserver of justice and the guardian of peace.
Filippo Alberici?, Hieroglyphica and Emblematic Inscriptions
Paris, c. 1507
Owned by Prince Henry Frederick
Royal 12 C. iii, f. 20
© The British Library Board

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sporadicq:

Images from the 18th century manuscript on alchemy Clavis Artis, attributed to Zoroaster. Biblioteca dell’Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Roma. (Source)

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impartart:

Benozzo Gozzoli, Dream of the Innocent Three and the Confirmation of the Rule, c. 1452

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The world is already constituted, but also never completely constituted; in the first case we are acted upon, in the second we are open to an infinite number of possibilities…. There is, therefore, never determinism and never absolute choice, I am never a thing and never bare consciousness.

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception (via doubtlr)

(via doubtlr)

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bofransson:

Georges Braque, Still life with flowers, 1945.

✖ 67 notes ❖ Source: bofransson ⟲ Reblog ✒Georges Braque ✒cubism ✒modernism ✒still life ✒1940's ✒XX century

darksilenceinsuburbia:

Christian Holstad. Defending Decisions, 2005. Pencil on newspaper, 13 x 18 cm.

✖ 405 notes ❖ Source: darksilenceinsuburbia ⟲ Reblog ✒Christian Holstad ✒XXI century ✒pencil ✒contemporary art

doubtlr:

Maurice Blanchot, The Space of Literature

(Image: Gilbert Garcin)

✖ 263 notes ❖ Source: invisiblestories ⟲ Reblog ✒Maurice Blanchot ✒literature ✒extract ✒Gilbert Garcin ✒photography

thisisblackwhite:

Diane Arbus - Three Circus Ballerinas

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