hazel motes

Liturgy, The Seraph’s costume, Natalia Goncharova

by Kikugawa Eizan, Asian Art

H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Polychrome woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper

“In this world turned to ashes, With an inheritance of memories and nearby troubles, I certainly dreamed I was finite…”

The Butterflies

Some of the ways Brits end their emails, taken from Very British Problems Volume 3, now available in paperback

@SoVeryBritish

Artist: Katsukawa Shunshō (Japanese, 1726–1792)

Title: The Syllable Mu: The First Red Maple Leaves, from the series Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Prints (Fûryû nishiki-e Ise monogatari)

風流錦絵伊勢物語　「む」　かえでの初紅葉

the girl with a pomegranate (1875)

Eiger, Monch and Jungfrau in Moonlight, 1908, Ferdinand Hodler

Medium: oil,canvas

Fukiya Koji 蕗谷虹児 (1898-1979)

Bara to shoujo 薔薇と少女 (rose and girls) solo exhibition work - Japan - 1968

A Hellenistic gold earring in the shape of a dove.

2nd century BCE