#The Portrait

[clown-bear]

Guillermo telling Nandor that he is "running away from his feelings" and Nandor confirming it and then only a moment later Nandor saying that Guillermo is "one of the things he needs to get away from" was. peak cinema

[soracities]

Ilya kaminsky: "we sleep in a language until it comes to wake us with its strangeness", Kafka commended books that are like an axe for the frozen sea, Roland barthes was bored of deliberately composed or arranged photographs and sought the "punctum" (prick), the accidental or incidental element that throws you off in a photo... Tbc

Ctd... Francis bacon particularly loved a self portrait of Rembrandt's where his eyes look like bottomless holes and said that "non rational marks <in a painting> convey the mystery of the fact", the entire concept of "ostranenie" - is this what art is about?

i think if you can say anything of what art is "about", it maybe lies in the fact that the more you try to pin down its "aboutness" the further it recedes (like love, like God). when i did art in school the earliest lesson we were given was to draw something by focusing not on itself, but the negative space i.e. the area around the object that isn't the object. we drew the model for each class by drawing what the model wasn't: it wasn't so much about avoiding what i knew, but what i think i knew.

kafka, barthes, ostranenie...perhaps all form a facet of what art involves and leaves us with: it is an interruption (like beauty); its intrusion throws everything around it into new relief—do we know more or less than we did before? sometimes it is one, sometimes the other. regardless, we now know it differently. a sort of chink in the veil, if you will. an invitation, perhaps.

[aviel]

René Margritte - The Portrait (1935)

[kialshuna]

I binged read this webtoon entitled "The Portrait" and I love it so much. My favorite is its story flow, where the first chapters tell a very interesting introduction of the story. I love how the succeeding chapters perfectly fit with the introduction until the epilogue. I love how the conflict is not stressful. I love how there's a direct plot, a balance between a plotless story and a plotty one. I love how most of the characters are good people, and all of those deserving people got their happy endings. ❤️ The characters are so lovable, and the subplot for the supporting characters is as interesting as the main plot. There's no boring scene nor a stressful one. The art is so beautiful, and the theme that revolves around the art community is captivating. I even appreciated paintings more than before. I love how the author depicts a story where an old, unmoving, single portrait would have a thousand stories of different people behind it.

This kind of story is not really my cup of tea, but loving the webtoon despite being an opposite of my usual preference, definitely proves how amazing it is! 🩷

[dyrewrites]

The Portrait is out!

[pterygoidwalk]

sometimes i wonder what my cat named me

[shihlun]

RIP Akira Toriyama (1955-2024)

[t00thpasteface]

tips for writing realistic sibling interactions:

[shuploc]

"The Pale Elf"

[nobuyoshiaraki]

WANIMAL

[sillychaotic]

ego of a god

[evelina-maar]

This is Bisan Owda (@wizard_bisan1 on IG), she's a young journalist who's been documenting the daily life in Gaza, Palestine since before October of last year and continues to do so now, as her and her family have been displaced by Israel, her home and workplace destroyed in the bombings. If you don't already follow her, I highly suggest to do so, as she takes interviews from the local people in the refugee camps and provides a fantastic insight into Palestinians as a nation, their culture and the horrors they face under the Israeli apartheid regime in their own land.🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

[prinnay]

Goldy locs

[elixir]

Moonrise Phyllis Shafer — 2015 oil on canvas

[tsrmarina]

While finishing up the piece with the dragon spawn I made studies to catch ascended Astarion character essence ✍️ Here’s one of them:

Astarion the Ascended 🖤

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