Art
beauty in the mundane
Art
“The False Mirror” (1929) by René Magritte - the eye reflecting the sky captures my essay’s opening paradox: the longing to be seen while fearing what that gaze might reveal. The image of vision turned outward and inward at once, surveillance disguised as intimacy, echoes the question: are we really seen, or merely reflected back through someone else’s sky? (moma.org)
I often think Hasui Kawase was simply the greatest at depicting weather — not just how it looks, but how it feels…
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“Not To Be Reproduced” (1937) by René Magritte - this painting of a man whose mirror shows only his back embodies the crisis of recognition at the heart of the performance culture. Like Magritte’s subject, we face rhetorical mirror of the digital self and find only repetition, our own image endlessly optimised yet never truly known. (moma.org)
There are days when I wake up, stretch into my spine like a cat, and feel that tight, electric bliss of simply being alive. The man I adore adores me too, madly, completely, without performance. My son, miraculous in his autonomy, is out in the world doing beautifully, his laughter now its own weather system. There’s the scent of brioche drifting... See more
Tamara • When Did Joy Become Embarrassing?
this is art.
The dreamlike skies of American artist Maxfield Parrish — so good they named a shade of blue after him.
Hard to comprehend these were painted 100 years ago.
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