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When does a work of art extend beyond its frame to become a part of us? When it articulates things we've felt? When it shows us something we didn't know we knew?
Feast your eyes on @twschaller 's
view of the cathedral on the banks of River Spree #BerlinerDom
Welcome to you, rich Autumn days,
Ere comes the cold, leaf-picking wind...
William Henry Davis
(from 'Rich Days')
Art by @IVeredit
Green Shades Goldfinch
A brilliant mixed-media painting
by Ángeles M. Pomata @ampomata
(✍ John Keats)
@twschaller Yvw. Did you know that Goethe loved it v. much too?? (he brought the enthusiasm for all things Italian to Germany :) He painted & drew on these travels, stayed with his friend, painter Johann Tischbein & took drawing classes w. him. Then, he did these:
"But human borders mean nothing to air, water, windblown soil or birds..." (David T. Suzuki)
🖌 @JudithWagnerWa1 #impressionism
"The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the attempt to bring out of it ideas."
-Terence McKenna
🖌 @daviddpearce
"Birds know themselves not to be at the center of anything, but at the margins of everything. We only live where someone's horizon sweeps someone else's. We are only noticed on the edge of things; but on the edge of things, we notice much."
@ampomata 🖌
"I left Perugia on a lovely morning, and experienced the joy of being on my own again. The city is in a beautiful position and those sights are now well engraved in my mind's eye." -Goethe, "Italian Journey"
Views of Perugia, by @twschaller
"Real painters understand with a brush in their hand."
Berthe Morisot
Some of her wonderful impressionist paintings.