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Arthur Rackham's illustrations for Wagner's opera The Rhinegold & the Valkyrie (1910)
* "Ohe! Ohe! / Horrible dragon, me not! / Spare the life of poor Loge!"
* "The Rhine's pure-gleaming children / Told me of their sorrow"
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Arthur Rackham's illustrations for Wagner's opera The Rhinegold & the Valkyrie (1910)
* The Rhine's fair children / Bewailing their lost gold, weep"
* Mime writhes under the lashes he receives"
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Arthur Rackham's illustrations for Wagner's opera The Rhinegold & the Valkyrie (1910)
* "Seize the despoiler / Rescue the gold! / Help us! Help us! / Woe! Woe!"
* "Mock away! Mock! / The Niblung
makes for you toy!"
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Arthur Rackham's illustrations for Wagner's opera The Rhinegold & the Valkyrie (1910)
* The Frolic of the Rhine-Maidens
* The Rhine-Maidens teasing Alberich
"This is what makes me want to paint… Moments of heartbreaking beauty, moments that take your breath away."
- Nicholas Hely Hutchinson -
Pembrokeshire / Savage Cornish Coast / Cornish Cliffs/ The Camel Estuary (Cornwall)
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"Let the park live in you until it sings you a song."
from Central Park Song (A Screenplay) / Zack Love, Stories and Scripts: an Anthology
@twschaller #CentralPark
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"And the most unusual and surrealistic place in New York City is Central Park. (Christo)
Central Park in the paintings of Thomas W. Schaller @twschaller
"Whenever and however we encounter the magnificence of beauty, it knocks us off balance, we are utterly decentered."
Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
@ampomata 🖌
"She was not an existence, an experience, a passion, a structure of sensations, to anybody but herself... Even to friends she was no more than a frequently passing thought."
Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Here are two of the 42 watercolors, that Eyvind Earle, aged 21, painted on his trip across the US, in 1937. @Brian_T_Nolan