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“(He) was destined to introduce into the Russian landscape what it had always lacked—poetry as well as naturalness of execution“ (Ivan Kramskoi)

Russian lyrical landscape painter Fyodor Alexandrovich Vasilyev was born in Gatchina near St Petersburg #OTD 1850

🖼️ "Thaw" (1871)

"To feel what one sees, to give what one feels, is what defines the artist's life"

Symbolist painter, sculptor and graphic artist Max Klinger was born #OTD 1857 in Leipzig

“Use your wits, use your eyes. Perhaps you use your physical eyes too much and only see the mask. Find your eyes within, look for the door in the unknown country.”

Pamela "Pixie" Colman Smith, born #OTD 1878, "The Blue Cat" (1907) for #FairyTaleTuesday

@EvgeniouYolanda @EnchantedEzine @DeeDeeChainey @bjorn_stjerne @AmandaBergloff

Your weekly Wunderkammer #SuperstitionSat safety advice - Candlemas special

Don't let a candle burn down to the socket of the candlestick. That means certain doom for a sailor out at sea.

Thank you. Spit thrice, touch cold iron and be safe.

🖼️ J.M.W. Turner "Shipwreck" 1810

@skullsnsheets Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before;
But the silence was unbroken, and the darkness gave no token,
And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, “Lenore!”

#Gothicspring

"Firm to the mast with chains thyself be bound,
Nor trust thy virtue to the enchanting sound" (Homer)

Four artists' takes on trickster epitome Odysseus & his adventure with the sirens for #FaustianFriday

🖼️ Cw Waterhouse, Moreau, Etty & Draper

"In Baffin's Bay where the whale fish blow,
The fate of Franklin no man may know.
The fate of Franklin no tongue can tell,
Where Lord Franklin and his gallant men do dwell" (Lady Franklin's Lament)

🎨 Landseer "Man Proposes, God Disposes", 1864

#WyrdWednesday #seashanties

#WyrdWednesdy #lootdrop

What do they find on your frozen remains after they discover what is left of your failed expedition into the icy.cold wastes https://t.co/cfTCpxfT6m

"They are as dust, keep but a little while;
And as they move their hair drops out. They run,
To hasten their slow dying. Then they fall,
And in the open fields lie prone"

Frühvollendet early expressionist poet Georg Heym #DOTD 1912, aged 24

🖼️Franz Marc "Tierschicksale" 1913