Max Klinger, 1857-1920

The Muppets as Goncharov (1973)

the only goncharov remake I want is a muppets version

I don't care if I've shared this painting five million times already, I am doing it again.

I'm smiling kicking my feet twirling my hair at this painting, alright. Pheidias is me when I give a presentation in art school. okay I will now go lie down and think about this depiction of Socrates and Alcibiades for 25 minutes because they make me insane.

–if that ever happened.

twenty years across the sea

I have endured what no one on earth has ever done before

I put to my lips the hands of the man who killed my son.

I found another rare behind the scenes one.

wish the piraeus archaeological museum had a public catalog but hey everyone check out this c. 420-410 funerary stele from salamis with a tragic actor staring at his mask

Any of you ever seen this painting?

It's "Andromache" by Rochegrosse and it shows the moment where Andromache is violently torn away from her child Astyanax at the end of the Trojan War. Odysseus is watching the scene from the top of the stairs, waiting for the child to throw it from the ramparts of Troy.

I've seen the original a couple years ago in Rouen, France and let me tell you, I'm not much of an art enthusiast but this painting, this scene and this imaging is haunting my mind to this day. Few paintings have ever left me speechless and this is one of them

the princess and the dragon of colchis

I've been SO crazy about Medea lately. colchian dragon design is based on THIS kylix where it eats Jason <3

If you have achieved something, please remember to observe a mandatory period of basking in the warm glow of your achievement like a lizard on a stone, lest you teach your brain that effort is futile, actually, because it didn't get to enjoy its happy chemicals, so, naturally, nothing good ever comes of trying. (And no, avoiding punishment is not a reward!)

I recommend, like, 5% of basking time in relation to whatever time you invested into achieving the thing minimum. And if you can't make your own bask, friend-brought is fine (= tell your friends!).