In his final years Gainsborough created some of the most elegant English portraits of the 18th C. His Morning Walk (1785), Mrs Sheridan (1785-6) & Duke of Kent (c1787) are supreme examples of an artist who understood beauty & human frailty

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This week's prompt is Still Life! Still Lifes contain contrasting ideas of beauty, impermanence, frailty and power. Create a Still Life that uses objects to express your ever day experience. See link in bio for more on our 10-week prompts.

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74) Yoshitoki Oima is currently mired in To Your Eternity, a project so expansive and ambitious that I can't yet tell if it's good or fell apart volumes ago, she also did one of the greatest stories of human frailty and redemption and acceptance in the medium, A Silent Voice.

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'Flowers of the field, how meet ye seem,
Man’s frailty to pourtray,
Blooming so fair in morning’s beam,
Passing at eve away;
Teach this, and oh! though brief your reign,
Sweet flowers, ye shall not live in vain.'

- Rebecca Hey

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In his final years Gainsborough created some of the most elegant English portraits of the 18th C. His Morning Walk (1785), Mrs Sheridan (1785-6) & Duke of Kent (c1787) are supreme examples of an artist who understood beauty & human frailty

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Seek the old blood, but beware the frailty of men.

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Day 8. just one whisper from the Devil and we collapsed into frailty.

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"Remain wary of the frailty of men. Their wills are weak, minds young."

Shoutout to my girl Vicar Amelia for nothing other than being an absolute queen and killing me sixteen times in a church 🐺

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That the world should be filled with such detail, such tiny points of human frailty, threatened to crush her and she had to look away.

- Ian McEwan, The Children Act

🎨Munch, The Sick Child
Photo from Munch Museum

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Italian painter Salvator Rosa was born on this date in 1615. This is "The Frailty of Human Life."

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Often artists do a better job depicting Tragedy & frailty of human condition than the camera & videos ex.PICASSO

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