the heart of standing

Losing my shit. This is so fucking funny

Finally got one with both of them. Weeping with laughter

meetcute I force my way into your house and break your arm

the heart:

COMIA: Herbívoro, plantas a altura media

starling

Andrey Remnev, The Unplaiting of the Hair, 1997. Egg tempera and oil on canvas, 100x100 cm.

Above the door to the studio corridor hangs this portrait of the poet, Paul Roche, reclining in green satin pants. He was an especially close friend of the artist, Duncan Grant, and was an important part of his life. Grant painted this portrait of him around 1945, shortly after they’d met by chance at Piccadilly Circus in London. “As we plunged across the Circus, more or less together, he darted me a look in which I thought I saw something tenderly curious and questioning.” – Paul Roche Roche had mostly female lovers in his lifetime, but he became Grant’s model, muse, friend and lover – they even lived together for a time. Grant painted him over and over, and some of his sketches and paintings of Roche are explicitly erotic. After getting married, Roche settled in America, but he returned to visit Grant at Charleston after he heard of Vanessa Bell’s death in 1961. Roche and his wife, Clarissa Tanner, moved back to the UK to take care of Grant who was increasingly frail. The bond between these two men dominated the later part of Grant’s life and he spent his final months at Roche’s home, where he died in 1978. (source)

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Edoardo Berta (Italian, 1867–1931) - Portrait of a girl

The Custom of the Country, Edith Wharton

buoyant, 2025, oil on canvas, 90 x 120 cm

A Nymph Beside a Pool (1910) by Reginald Grenville Eves RA (British, 1876 – 1941), signed and dated top right ‘R. G. Eves / 1910’, oil on canvas, 132 cm (51.9 in) x 101.6 cm (40 in), Private Collection

Frankenstein 2025, dir. Guillermo del Toro

Janus la Cour - A glade in the forest in springtime (1860)

Jeune fille de face (Lucien-Victor Guirand de Scévola, 1899)