I May Not Be A Pastor To Replenish And Cleanse Your Sins, But Should You Have Any Unresolved Resolutions

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— James Elkins, Pictures and Tears: A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings

Julius Grimm (1842-1906)

In 1888, Julius Grimm used photography and telescope observation to create this intricately detailed and precise oil painting of the moon. In the night sky, the moon is always lit from behind you – so the shadows of the craters can never appear as they do in this painting. Grimm instead regarded the moon as if it were a still life, bathed in golden light emanating from the left side of the painting. 

“The picture should only be hung or positioned, that the light falls onto the picture from the side where the arrow is positioned, because otherwise, in the case of incorrect lighting, the effect could be completely lost.”

spring is not gentle

trembling towards tomorrow

trepidation of love now renewed;

it is a scab scraped over winter

and its bloody, weeping wounds.

sometimes i can’t believe how dreamy this city is! ✨🌙

Philip de László - Portrait of Cecile Rankin, 1937 (detail), oil on canvas

imagine studying in the library after school and taking a nap in the poetry section with Oscar Wilde’s the picture of Dorian grey on your lap, so then at closing time they have to wake you up, then you bike home as the sunsets.

listen bro. u gotta have frivolities or else life is meaningless

Classics

why is that so heartbreaking

“I read a passage in an ancient poem, and I seem to understand my own heart.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, from ‘The Sorrows of Young Werther’