I guess this is growing up

The Duel. Illustration for Eugene Onegin by Lydia Tymoshenko.

Mother and Child

Silkworms and Night-closing Blossom Ju Chao 1852 Night-closing blossoms open in the evening, The reality doesn’t agree with its name. I asked, “Why?” in the face of the flower But hiding under leaves, it only smiles modestly. The whole world is wrong in conceiving it so, ‘Little Purple’, its other name makes more sense than that. But whatever happens, The flower still smiles. (fragment of the inscription)

Elderbrook - Could

(Scottish, 1887-1976)

Kimon Loghi - Zâna lacului, 1910-1915

Thoughts and wonders… 

Reapers of the Apocalypse, Ryan Begley

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Art history meme (x) - 5-6/10 painthings - On the Seashore (1879) by  George Elgar Hicks and Distant Thoughts by Wilhelm August Lebrecht Amberg

Howard Tangye 2014, “Oscar”, 100 cm x 70 cm, Mixed media on Paper