Art Academia - Blog Posts
The Secret History
“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
“I prefer to think of it, he had said, as redistribution of matter.”
“It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.”
“In short: I felt my existence was tainted, in some subtle but essential way.”
“Anything is grand if it's done on a large enough scale.”
“Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly the ones i did not.”
“There is nothing wrong with the love of Beauty. But Beauty - unless she is wed to something more meaningful - is always superficial.”
Totally didn't make this like a year ago but posting it just now what definitely nott
The Elegance of Indian Art
These paintings, according to me, justify the beauty and the mystical feeling of nostalgia and euphoria when one hears the word "India"...
Jamuna ~Kshitindranath Tagore art
Sati ~Nandalal Bose
Bengal Fairy Tales ~Abanindranath Tagore
Chashma Shahi ~Abanindranath Tagore
Apsaras Dancing on the clouds ~Kshitindranath Mazumdar
Departure of Siddhartha ~Abanindranath Tagore
Nasim Bagh ~Abanindranath Tagore
Night at the Shalimar-The Emperor Shah Jahan ~(Abanindranath Tagore)
Fate and Pleasure ~Abanindranath Tagore
Ashoka ~Abanindranath Tagore
(Reblogs are appreciated)
Let's bring back putting flowers in your beloved's hair
Among the stars on a Friday afternoon (2022)
Never argue with stupid people. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.
Female hands in paintings
Time to start studying, Your Highness
“Time is a game played beautifully by children.”
-Heraclitus
“A morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs”
-Donna Tartt, The Secret History
Being an AP art history student.. my textbook is 14 pounds!!📚🎨
Italy post n. one
I haven't found God in Vatican, but at least I found The Hot Priests calendar and bought it.
paintings from my aunt's walls
Tomorrow will be a long day
my classmate invited me to some gathering with her artistic friends where we would enjoy photos (from some old camera i quess) projected on a balcony wall and drink wine. She herself said that its very pretentious and that is exactly what i am looking for but i am intimidated by the chaotic academia vibe people coming, what should i do?
Reading by the window while it rains
na bc this
Shameless and callous I love you.
Out of indifference I love you.
cashmere and forgotten love letters
echoes from the halls of knowledge
I love the smiths but how could a man ever know how joan of arc felt
if I had a nickel for every time politicians were thrown out the window in Prague I'd have three nickels. which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened three times???
"listening to music in your target language is the best way to learn it" they said "it'll be fun" they said but now i'm listening to smells like teen spirit in classical latin with weird instrumentals in the background.
my love language is poetry and I think I'm willing to finally accept that I'll always be the poet and never the poem as long as my muse lets me write about them forevermore