[rthko]

Mark Rothko on the "recipe of a work of art," lecture at the Pratt Institute, 1958:

1. There must be a clear preoccupation with death—intimations of mortality... Tragic art, romantic art, etc. deals with the knowledge of death.

2. Sensuality. Our basis of being concrete about the world. It is a lustful relationship to things that exist.

3. Tension. Either conflict or curbed desire.

4. Irony. This is a modern ingredient—the self effacement and examination by which a man for an instant can go on to something else.

5. Wit and Play..for the human element.

6. The ephemeral and chance...for the human element.

7. Hope. 10% to make the tragic concept more endurable.

[mariaramosbravo]

[barrowsteeth]

All of Us Strangers - December 2023
↳ dir. Andrew Haigh

@lgbtqcreators - battleship bingo - family
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[sioltach]

Ed Hall: Hazelnuts do not grow on a dead planet

Ed Hall is an artist and banner-maker who has created banners for campaigns, artists and trade unions since 1984. Hazelnuts do not grow on a dead planet is a reference to Julian of Norwich, a 14th-century mystic and believed to be author of the earliest surviving work in English to be written by a woman.

[thearchaicsmile]

Late Roman stone mosaic from the Greek city of Halicarnassus, Caria (modern Bodrum, Turkey), dated 4th century AD, now in the British Museum. A coloured laurel wreath encloses a Greek inscription with the following words:

ΥΓΙΑ "Health"
ΖΟΗ "Life"
ΧΑΡΑ "Joy"
ΕΙΡΗΝΗ "Peace"
ΕΥΘΥΜΙΑ "Happiness"
ΕΛΠΙϹ "Hope"

🏛️: © The Trustees of the British Museum

[wonderstruck]

If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

[sirfrogsworth]

This 4 minutes took 5 years to make.

Timelapse photography on this scale is the definition of a labor of love, because if you didn't love it, nothing else would compel you to do it.

[thefrogman]

If you have access to a large screen, I highly recommend putting this on it.

[k-wame]

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ANDREW SCOTT as Adam & PAUL MESCAL as Harry
All of Us Strangers (2023) dir. Andrew Haigh

[writhe]

Astronauts talking about viewing the earth from the moon, from The Overview Effect: Awe and Self-Transcendent Experience in Space Flight

[canelarolls]