obitual

this painting depicts a scene from georg eber’s 1880 novel ‘the emperor’. as the woman navigates the halls of a unfamiliar house in the night, she encounters argus - ‘something which as she approached it resembled a dog, and which was larger—much larger—than a dog should be.’ she attempts to flee the monstrous creature but is violently struck down, dying where she lay.

I’ve been itching to paint this for a year and a half. I’ve never felt more moved to do so than right now.

Luis Ricardo Falero - A Beauty, 1885

Julius Le Blanc

Au jardin de la mélancolie

A drawing for @qinni, who is sadly no longer with us. I’ve followed her work since 2010 and not only enjoyed seeing her beautiful art, but also her funny and brutally honest posts about her life. I wish I had the chance to get to know her better. Rest in peace, funny, sweet, talented and beautiful Qinni.

Zen (Chinese: 禪; pinyin: Chán; Korean: 선) is a school of Mahayana Buddhism that originated in China during the Tang dynastyas Chan Buddhism. Zen school was strongly influenced by Taoism and developed as a distinct school of Chinese Buddhism. From China, Chan Buddhism spread south to Vietnam, northeast to Korea and east to Japan, where it became known as Japanese Zen and known as Seon buddihism in Korea.

William Mortensen , Marie Antoinette circa 1924 - 26

William Mortensen

Christian Dior Haute Couture Spring 2017

Yogini, 2002, by Pushpamala N.