art is not what you see, but what you make others see. -Edgar Degas


changan-moon:

How to make a 紫砂壶 zishahu (Chinese boccaro teapot/ Yixing clay teapot)

cr: 拾七紫砂

oncanvas:
“  Dunes with Ray of Light II, Lyonel Feininger, 1944 Oil on canvas
20 x 35 ⅛ in. (50.8 x 89.23 cm)
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA
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oncanvas:

Dunes with Ray of Light II, Lyonel Feininger, 1944

Oil on canvas
20 x 35 ⅛ in. (50.8 x 89.23 cm)
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA

(Source: albrightknox.org)

r4cs0:

xphilosoraptorx:

friendly-neighborhood-patriarch:

oh my wow that’s pretty.

What manner of nature sorcery is this?

Whoa son

womansart:
“ Artist Lita Albuquerque’s work questions our place in the enormity of space and time. ‘Stellar Axis: Antarctica’ sees the placement of blue spheres corresponding to the location of 99 stars in the Antarctic sky
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womansart:

Artist Lita Albuquerque’s work questions our place in the enormity of space and time. ‘Stellar Axis: Antarctica’ sees the placement of blue spheres corresponding to the location of 99 stars in the Antarctic sky

nouralogical:

Paintings by Nicola Samorì (2012-2013)

qmr:

Azerbaijani painter writes Quran on transparent silk pages

Azerbaijani painter and decorative artist Tünzale Memmedzade has transcribed the Quran onto transparent silk pages. Memmedzade, a 33-year-old artist, used 50 meters of transparent black silk, and 1,500 milliliters of gold and silver inks in the project, which has taken three years to complete. (read more

Mashallah, how incredibly beautiful. 

trulyvincent:

Arkady Alexandrovich Rylov (Russian, 1870−1939)

womansart:

San Francisco photographer Melissa Kaseman knows that imaginative art can come in tiny packages. That much is evident in her latest photo series, “Preschool Pocket Treasures,” which depicts the small objects she finds stuffed in her son’s pockets each day when he comes home from preschool.