#albert richards

[thunderstruck9]

Albert Richards (British, 1919-1945), The Seven Legends: Self Portrait, 1939. Tempera on board, 73.5 x 55.6 cm.

[historyandarthijinks]

Art of War (25)

The Drop (1944) - Albert Richards (1919-1945) [United Kingdom]

Oil on panel [549mm x 752mm]

[Image Description. It is clear as day, a D-Day painting. There is a chaotic scenario of troops dropping down from the sky, starting to land in the muddy and grassy terrain of France. Troops are sporadically running or aiding friends across this expanse. Their parachutes are like a jellyfish bloom against a sky set colorful by war. These parachutes are set in angles of every which way.

In the distance of the sky is a continuing trail of them, reminiscent of dandelion seeds in the wind with their shape. In front of them are the planes deploying these paratroopers. Even further back in the sky is more waves of planes, likely friendly and enemy ones alike. At the background is French forests and cities, billowing with smoke and chaos. End ID.]

Albert Richards was born the son of a WW1 vet. After attending art school he was conscripted for WW2, and eventually would end up as a British paratrooper on D-Day. This painting is Richards recalling the event through art while still enlisted during the war. In 1945, while deployed in Netherlands, his jeep drove a land mine, killing him at age 25.

This painting is located in the Imperial War Museum in London, England, United Kingdom.

[glettokono]

what.

[periodinteriors]

Albert Letchford, Corner of Sir Richard Burton's Study, 1889, oil on panel.

[diioonysus]

gold + art

[silna-pdf]

Rebecca compilation bc I never post my drawings of her

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Richard Moll as Xusia and Kathleen Beller as Princess Alana - The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982)

[carolaetroses]

My small analysis about The Secret History, and the way it seems to fall in the absurdism:

Through the whole book, we have these little details, characters and else that break the classic (and very structured) rules of writing. In literature, it is known that every character and every interaction is forced to have a weight on the narrative, however, in the book we find characters that are there or things that happen just because. The person following Bunny and Henry on their trip, or the character that lied about seeing something the day of Bunny's murder.

Now, this is only in the way the book is structured, however, if we look closely, we find the perfect example of why this falls in the absurdism. You see, Camus was a firm believer that things don't have to happen for a reason, that nothing matters because at the end, we all are going to die, and that it doesn't matter what we do.

Henry (and I would say Camilla and maybe even Francis) follows this idea after the bacchanal. It is the result of the bacchanal.

The murder, which is a mere concept that fall in the category of terror by humans, is an act of destruction, one of the worst transgressions (if not considered the worse one). Death is only allowed if it happens because of some sort of destiny, divinity or deity, death is a transgression for humans, the thin line. When they murdered the farmer, they crossed this line, clearly, the main strenght in this, is Henry.

When he's the main responsable of this death, he crossed the line. And then, he got away with it. So, this bringed in him the idea that, actually, nothing matters. Nothing matters because he alredy killed someone, and nothing changed. He still got up, got to study, got to live as he wants.

He described that he often felt like life was meaningless and bland, but after killing someone, he noticed that life is actually meaningless, yet, this as well means he could do whatever he wished.

That's why he could kill Bunny, that's why he decided he wanted to be closer to Camilla, play around with poisoning. Henry realized that if life was empty on its own, he could do as he pleased, because there's nothing stopping him.

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Richard Redgrave (1804-1888) "Cinderella About to Try on the Glass Slipper" (c. 1842) Oil on canvas Located in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England

[eggnogtoast]

s.t.a.r.s. era you will always be famous

dumb comic under the cut

[danopdf]

BAND OF BROTHERS EPISODE POSTERS

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currahee : day of days : carentan : replacements : crossroads : bastogne : the breaking point : why we fight

[deadly-academic]

In March the earth remembers its own name. Everywhere the plates of snow are cracking. The rivers begin to sing. In the sky the winter stars are sliding away; new stars appear as, later, small blades of grain will shine in the dark fields.

And the name of every place is joyful.

~ Worm Moon, Mary Oliver

[ultimateanna]

Resident Evil 1996 - S.T.A.R.S.

[missfisherandjack]

Miss Fisher: “Unfortunately I’m already known to the boxing troupe, but I’m sure you two can mingle without attracting too much attention.”

Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries (2012-2015) ↳ 2x04 Deadweight

[periodinteriors]

Albert Letchford, Sir Richard Burton's Sitting Room, 1889, oil on panel.

[diioonysus]

women in art: ophelia