Caspar David Friedrich, Evening [1821] “… Joseph Koerner has written… sensitive lines about the effect of those two figures in the painting. Put a finger over the painting, he suggests, blocking out the figures. Immediately the restlessness is calmed… Lift the finger, though, and the landscape suddenly turns and centers on those two figures. They haul us into the scene and from then on we are always moving: it is as if we are left behind, rushing to catch up, and they are ahead, farther into the darkness. We are always late, even later than they are.” - James Elkins, Pictures & Tears Thank you, invisiblestories.

Caspar David Friedrich, Evening [1821]

“… Joseph Koerner has written… sensitive lines about the effect of those two figures in the painting. Put a finger over the painting, he suggests, blocking out the figures. Immediately the restlessness is calmed… Lift the finger, though, and the landscape suddenly turns and centers on those two figures. They haul us into the scene and from then on we are always moving: it is as if we are left behind, rushing to catch up, and they are ahead, farther into the darkness. We are always late, even later than they are.”

- James Elkins, Pictures & Tears

Thank you, invisiblestories.

Francisco de Zurbarán, Still Life with Lemons, Oranges and a Rose, 1633Spanish, 1598-1664 On view at the Norton Simon Museum Although painted with meticulous naturalism, there is something unique and mysterious about this group of common place objects silhouetted against the darkness by a brilliant almost unearthly light, the motif seems suspended before us like objects of meditation with Zen-like clarity. Zurbarán is best known for his numerous paintings of saints in which he portrayed their devotions, visions and ecstasies. This painting is his only signed and dated still life. Its underlying and symbolic theme may be an homage to the Virgin. The citrons are a paschal fruit and, with the orange blossoms, suggest chastity. Love and purity are symbolized in the rose and water-filled cup. An air of gravity and spiritual austerity proceeds from the strict horizontal rhythm and the limitation of detail. Indeed, the objects appear to have a mystical allusion, just like the votive offerings on an altar. Sharon The Art History Blog sources: The Norton Simon Museum Thank you, arthistoryblog.

Francisco de Zurbarán, Still Life with Lemons, Oranges and a Rose, 1633
Spanish, 1598-1664
On view at the Norton Simon Museum

Although painted with meticulous naturalism, there is something unique and mysterious about this group of common place objects silhouetted against the darkness by a brilliant almost unearthly light, the motif seems suspended before us like objects of meditation with Zen-like clarity.

Zurbarán is best known for his numerous paintings of saints in which he portrayed their devotions, visions and ecstasies. This painting is his only signed and dated still life. Its underlying and symbolic theme may be an homage to the Virgin. The citrons are a paschal fruit and, with the orange blossoms, suggest chastity. Love and purity are symbolized in the rose and water-filled cup. An air of gravity and spiritual austerity proceeds from the strict horizontal rhythm and the limitation of detail. Indeed, the objects appear to have a mystical allusion, just like the votive offerings on an altar.

Sharon
The Art History Blog
sources: The Norton Simon Museum

Thank you, arthistoryblog.

Because the whole is enfolded in each part, so are all other parts, in some way and to some degree… The more fundamental truth is the truth of internal relatedness - the implicate order… in this order the whole and hence all the other parts are enfolded in each part.
David Bohm, Physicist (1917 - 1992) Thank you to, The Tao of Photography
Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth.
Naomi Shihab Nye, “Kindness.” Epigraph from Before You Know Kindness by Chris Bohjalian (via epigraphic)
Swell. Courtesy of astroinquiry & nevver.

Swell.

Courtesy of astroinquiry & nevver.

(via frederickwoodruff)

I believe in getting into hot water. I think it keeps you clean.
G.K. Chesterton (via libraryland)
track Reach Out I'll Be There
artist Lee Moses
album Time and Place [Bonus Tracks]

Lee Moses: Reach Out, I’ll Be There from the album Time and Place released in 1971.

Ansel Adams, Old Faithful Geyser, Late Evening, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. 1942  |  #2 Thank you, melisaki

Ansel Adams, Old Faithful Geyser, Late Evening, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. 1942  |  #2

Thank you, melisaki

Nja Mahdaoui, Untitled, indian ink & gold paint on Papyrus by Nja Mahdaoui, 2003. From melisaki

Nja Mahdaoui, Untitled, indian ink & gold paint on Papyrus by Nja Mahdaoui, 2003. From melisaki

Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness, by Edward Abbey (New York: Ballantine 1971). This quote also appeared in Parabola Volume 2:4 - Relationships. From: parabola-magazine.

Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness, by Edward Abbey (New York: Ballantine 1971). This quote also appeared in Parabola Volume 2:4 - Relationships.

From: parabola-magazine.