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Lady of the Night by Don Blanding c. 1935. 

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"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."

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Art History Meme ❧ 3/8 Artists

Harry Clarke (1889 – 1931)

An Irish stained glass artist and book illustrator. Born in Dublin, he was a leading figure in the Irish Arts and Crafts Movement.Clarke’s work can be compared to that of Aubrey Beardsley, Kay Nielsen, and Edmund Dulac. Stained glass is central to Clarke’s career. His glass is distinguished by the finesse of its drawing, unusual in the medium, his use of rich colours (inspired by an early visit to see the stained glass of the Cathedral of Chartres, he was especially fond of deep blues), and an innovative integration of the window leading as part of the overall design (his use of heavy lines in his black and white book illustrations is probably derived from his glass techniques).

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Virginia Frances Sterrett’s illustration for Old French Fairy Tales by Comptesse de Ségur. The fairy tales in full can be found here.

“Terrified and most desolate, she tried to force her way in the midst of the ruins, to seek some knowledge for her kind friends.”

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This is an example of a Tibetan Sand Mandala.  They are made up of millions of grains of sand painstakingly arranged by monks over days or weeks.  After creation they are ceremoniously destroyed.  I can think of no better analogy for life than this. This epitomizes Nietzche’s concept of life as art.  We live our lives and shape it to be a work that we find beautiful and fulfilling.  At the end, we are destroyed and the work is lost with it.  This photograph of the piece represents the memory we leave in others.  Though it may capture the shape, it loses the essence.  That will forever be gone.  No matter what your thoughts or beliefs about what comes after, this work will never be repeated and never be the same.

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Mount Wilson & Palomar Observatories, Milky Way (negative print), +/- 1950, United States.

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"Nature, red in tooth and claw" -Lord Tennyson

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"How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room.... There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world." -Franz Kafka

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Toadflax, Goldilocks. Plate from ‘Hortus Eystettensis’ by Basilius Besler (1561-1629). Published 1640.

Biodiversity Heritage Library.

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“In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion."

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