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Eyvind Earle's career continued to flourish after he left The Walt Disney Studio, @MrEwanMorrison He started his own animation studio before returning to painting full time. Here are 2 of his floral paintings.
Poppies (1976) / Blue & Purple Floral (1990)
Even
After
All this time
The Sun never says to the Earth
"You owe me"
Look
What happens
With a love like that
It lights the whole sky
- Hafiz ✒
🖌 @TakaQuarter
Wake! For the Sun, who scatter'd into flight
The Stars before him from the Field of Night,
Drives Night along with them from Heav'n...
(Omar Khayyám)
Martin Johnson Heade, 'Sunrise in Nicaragua'
Did you know that in the 1950s Venice (in California) became a center for the Beat Generation, with its group of authors like Kerouac & Ginsberg? There was an explosion of poetry and art, which continues today.
🖌 @twschaller
#venice #california #canals
Mislead night-wanderers, laughing at their harm?
Illustration from Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream"
by Arthur Rackham (1908)
"And of course I like Berlin a lot. It's such an interesting city."
Daniel Libeskind
🖌 @twschaller #Berlin
"I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral."
(Robert Louis Stevenson)
Chiesa del Purgatorio, Cefalu, Sicily
Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris
by @twschaller
The Battle of Alexander at Issus (1529)-Albrecht Altdorfer's masterpiece, portrays the victory of Alexander the Great over Darius III of Persia. The painting is said to induce feelings of perplexity and unease. War as an unholy spectacle, a frozen prophecy.
"People always ask me when I'm going to come down from the clouds. My answer is: never! I love this view."
(No idea who said this, saw it recently on a deco sign & loved it)
Fabulous paintings by @liamkumawat
Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c.1525 – 1569), the most significant artist of Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting.
The Fall of the Rebel Angels/
Landscape with the Flight into Egypt/
River Landscape with a Sower/
The Blind Leading the Blind