Inspiration
Barbara Hepworth: Art & Life
Barbara Hepworth (1903–1975) , elected a Bard of Cornwall, is one of the most influential British artists of the 20th century. At the forefront of international modern art, deeply spiritual, and passionately engaged with science and technology change.
By Raymond G Taylor13 days ago in Art
The Pond Where Silence Never Stays Quiet
In the eyes of his fellow water-sprites, Brcallnik was an absolute embarrassment, a failure to his kind. While the other water-sprites spent their afternoons meticulously polishing their clay jars, proudly showing off their grim collections of drowned human souls, Brcallnik’s shelves stood completely bare. He had no interest in collecting souls. Instead, he collected something completely invisible, yet infinitely heavier. He collected human wishes. Every single morning, he would sit on a mossy rock, his webbed feet submerged in the chilly current, simply listening. The river would deposit the echoes of human destinies into his palms: a young girl’s terror of confessing her love, the forgotten laughter of an old man, or the midnight anxieties of the village miller, who heard a threat of ruin in every splash of the wheel. The other sprites mocked him relentlessly. "You can't eat wishes," they would laugh, splashing him with muddy water. But Brcallnik would only shake his head, smile softly beneath his green beard, and whisper, "Perhaps, one day..."
By Lenka Čihařová18 days ago in Art
New Orleans’ Forgotten History: Grunewald Hall (with some Photoshop art)
I call architecture frozen music. This is the quote I feel best represents my ancestry... at least the German side of it. My third great-grandfather, Louis Grunewald, came from the tiny village of Hanhofen in Germany's Rhineland Palatinate to the city of New Orleans in 1852. In New Orleans, he is known to this day as a pioneer music merchant and original proprietor of what is now the Roosevelt Waldorf Astoria Hotel.
By Liesl Grunewald23 days ago in Art
