“Screwing things up is a virtue. Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.”
Jasper Johns
Dancing is poetry with arms and legs. -Charles Baudelaire
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Dancing Couple (1914)
Frida Kahlo
(Source: miamou)
Marc Chagall
(Source: miamou)
(Source: spicylatte)
Mary Delany - Amaryllis Sarniensis, Guernsey Lily. 1775
Les Impressionnistes: Édouard Manet, Edgar Degas, Alfred Sisley, Paul Cezanne, Claude Monet, Pierre-August Renoir.
So I’ve been cataloging hundreds of Matisse paintings at work. Sometimes they make me want to decorate my whole apartment with dozens of crazy, bold, colorful patterns. I don’t think I could ever pull it off, though.
(Henri Matisse, Checker Game and Piano Music, 1923)
Cy Twombly - Leda and the Swan, 1963
Stephanie Metz, Damask Familia Blackbird, detail. Wool fibers punched through paper, 22” x 30”, featured in the Avicular Exhibition at Penland School of Crafts, May 4-27th.
Cy Twombly - Herodiade, 1960
‘Bird Rider’
mixed media - collage, acrylic paints, washes & glazes, charcoal and pastels
This is the Indian Pipe plant, an eerie-looking plant, in my opinion. Monotropa uniflora is a heterotroph. That means that it doesn’t photosynthesize. Instead, it’s a parasitic plant that relies on mycorrhizal fungi for its nutrients.
Why is it white? No chlorophyll, no green.
It’s also known as the Ghost Plant, and the Corpse Plant.
