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Spring Scene

Artist: Rupert Bunny (Australian, 1864-1947)

Date: c. 1921

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Collection: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

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Alone • Francisco Fonseca

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Teatime Poem

By Anonymous

When the world is all at odds, and the mind is all at sea. Then cease the useless tedium, and brew a cup of tea. There is magic in its fragrance, there is solace in its taste. And the laden moments vanish, somehow into space. The world becomes a lovely thing, there’s beauty as you’ll see. All because you briefly stopped to brew a cup of tea.

Painting 🫖 Evening Tea 🫖 Yelena Sidorova

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When Twilight Comes With Dreams

By William Stanley Braithwaite

O let the music play a little longer, And sweetheart clasp me closer to your breast. Life is strong, and death; but love is stronger - And sweeter, sweeter, rest.

Oh, sweet is rest when love is watching over, And twilight comes with dreams that reassure; Weaving out of the silences that hover Hopes which must endure.

Painting🔹A Little Night Music🔹Trudi Doyle

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In the Sunset

Artist: Sui Hoe Khoo (Malaysian, born 1939)

Date: 1968

Medium: Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Collection: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

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“She was beautiful, but not like those girls in magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn't beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul. She is beautiful.”

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

🖌️Painting • Fern • Leslie Barron

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The little ginger watches over the soul, that is tired from a long trip, it hugged itself into its warm body and fell into a deep sleep. The cold, autumn wind is cradling the birch branches, from which the yellow leaves are falling.

Art by Laura Makabresku

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“There is no greater journey than the one that you must take to discover all of the mysteries that lie within you.” ~ Michelle Sandlin

🖌️Painting • Passages • Nom Kinnear King

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“I used to think I was the strangest person in the world, but then I thought there are so many people in the world; there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it's true I'm here, and I'm just as strange as you.”

~ Frida Kahlo

Painting 🌹Frida Kahlo🌹Jose Alberto

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“When nothing seems to be working out, remember that God has not forgotten you. Have faith and things will be okay one day.”

~ Gift Gugu Mona, The Essence of Faith: Daily Inspirational Quotes

Illustration 🌿Leap of Faith 🌿 Claire Elsaesser

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Córdoba, Un Silencio Perfecto • Juan Luis Seco

Description

A historic Roman bridge with multiple arches spans across a flowing river at twilight. In the background, an impressive cathedral with a prominent tower and domed roof rises above the ancient cityscape, illuminated softly against the fading light of day.

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Girl at a Window

Artist: Rupert Bunny (Australian, 1864-1947)

Date: c. 1914-1917

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Collection: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

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“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.”

~ George Augustus Moore, The Brook Kerith

Digital Art by Juan Brufal

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"When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young." ~ Maya Angelou

🎨Artwork: The Yellow Books

Creator: Vincent van Gogh Date: 1887 Medium: Oil on canvas Location: Private Collection

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“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.” ~ Khalil Gibran

Painting • Among Friends • Lynn Coldwell

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The White Man

Artist: Lyonel Feininger (American, 1871-1956)

Date: 1907

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Collection: Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum, Madrid, Spain

Description

In July 1906, Feininger left Berlin for a protracted stay in Paris. Having worked as a caricaturist for a succession of mainly humorous or satirical German magazines, it was perhaps natural that he should again gravitate towards literary and journalistic circles. Among the Parisian magazines for which he provided illustrations was Le Témoin, founded the same year by Dagny Björnson-Langen and the designer Paul Iribe. One of these illustrations was a drawing, compositionally identical to The White Man, entitled "Les regrets de M. Hearst, " which appeared in one of the first issues of Le Témoin in autumn 1906.

The White Man, which incorporates even the smallest details of this drawing, was completed in Paris a year later, in autumn 1907. It is among Feininger's earliest paintings in which he takes the human figure as his theme. In a letter written shortly after his arrival in Paris, he affirmed his determination to devote himself henceforth more to painting and less to drawings and caricatures. According to an old inscription, the artist considered this to be the second painting of his Parisian period, by which he presumably meant his second painting on canvas, discounting an earlier series of small-scale, Impressionistic landscapes done earlier the same year.

The title given to the published drawing has provoked speculation about the meaning of the painting but was almost certainly invented by the magazine's editor. Although the figure of the man in a white suit with hat and pipe may well have suggested the image of an American newspaper baron, it is most unlikely that Feininger intended it as a portrait of his compatriot William Randolph Hearst. More plausible is the suggestion that the "white man" may have been a satirical self-portrait. There is an undeniable resemblance between the spindly figure with its exaggeratedly long legs and enormous feet and the artist's own depiction of himself in the Chicago Sunday Tribune (29 April 1906) introducing the paper's new "comic supplement" The Kin-der-Kids. On the other hand, Ulrich Luckhardt, the most recent author to have written extensively about Feininger, emphasises that there is "no supporting evidence" to prove that the artist painted The White Man as a representation of himself.

Because of the discrepancy in scale between the two figures, it is easy to overlook altogether the smaller "black man" who appears in the background scurrying along between the legs of the purposely striding principal figure, as if bent on distracting him or tripping him up. If, however, the suggestion that the "white man" was conceived as a self-portrait is at least plausible, then the "black man" surely represents some sort of alter ego, perhaps signifying the darker side of the artist's personality. That Feininger's drawings and caricatures of this pre-war period did sometimes have a more profound psychological significance is shown by other, stylistically related works, for example the ink drawing Melancholy of 1911.

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"A word after a word after a word is power."

~ Margaret Atwood

Illustration: A Novel by Virginie Cognet