“Rather than use another piece of costly paper, Austen would turn the page sideways and continue writing at right angles...”
Cross hatched letter by Jane Austen. Learn about her letter writing process here.
Vincent van Gogh, Still Life: French Novels, 1888.
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Pamela Colman Smith, First edition illustration for Bram Stoker's The Lair of the White Worm, 1911. Colman Smith, designer of the Waite-Smith tarot deck, experienced early success as a fine artist and illustrator. She exhibited at Alfred Stieglitz’s 291 Gallery in 1907, but later life she fell into obscurity. Learn more about her here.
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Famous Cases of Addiction and Alcohol in Literary and Art History Addiction knows no bounds. While there are certain people who are more likely to fall prey to addiction, no one is exempt from it, including celebrities and those who live their lives in the spotlight. Some of the most famous masters of literary and …
“Writers were 121% more likely to have bipolar disorder...”
The curse of creativity. We explored this topic in a blog post about art and madness.
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Vanessa Bell, The Memoir Club, c.1943, oil on canvas, 60.8 x 81.6 cm, National Portrait Gallery, London. Source
Three portraits can be seen in the background of this particular meeting of Bloomsbury Group members and associates. They represent Virginia Woolf, Lytton Strachey and Roger Fry, figures who had once been prominent members of the group before their deaths.
Secrets of a painting. We love analysis like this!
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In the magnificent fierce morning of New Mexico one sprang awake, a new part of the soul woke up suddenly, and the old world gave way to a new."
D.H. Lawrence
...and a sunrise by O’Keeffe:
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"The painting was done so it could be hung with any end up."
Georgia O'Keeffe's "The Lawrence Tree", and a photograph of the tree on the D.H. Lawrence Ranch in Northern New Mexico.
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In another moment Alice was through the glass, and had jumped lightly down into the Looking-glass room. The very first thing she did was to look whether there was a fire in the fireplace, and she was quite pleased to find that there was a real one, blazing away as brightly as the one she had left behind. "So I shall be as warm here as I was in the old room," thought Alice: "warmer, in fact, because there'll be no one here to scold me away from the fire. Oh, what fun it'll be, when they see me through the glass in here, and can't get at me!"
-Lewis Carroll, with an image by Pierre Bonnard
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There is no better place for hiding a secret than an unfinished novel.
Italo Calvino
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For J.R.R. Tolkien's birthday, his little-known original art.
Happy 123rd birthday, Tolkien! His artwork is gorgeous...
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Rodin’s famous statue The Kiss was originally titled Francesca da Rimini and depicts the thirteenth-century woman in Dante’s Inferno who falls in love with her husband’s younger brother Paolo. Their lips do not actually touch, hinting at their eventual doom.
So, one of art history's most famous kisses doesn't quite make contact...
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An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.
- J D Salinger
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"And that Jean Valjean, whom society oppresses, outlawed; with his love, his strength, isn’t he too the image of an Impressionist today?” –Paul Gauguin to Vincent van Gogh, 1 October 1888
Paul Gauguin, Self-Portrait with Portrait of Bernard
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The New Architecture of Europe
Great art, design, architecture. This Tumblr is delicious-> secretempires
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Reading Couple (Edmond Renoir and Marguerite Legrand) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1877
This is what we'll be doing all fall.