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Abre los ojos.

redvelvetteacake:

Sam.

redvelvetteacake:

And at night. At night it was magical. Like praying. I’d never heard such silence as that. Nowhere on earth. So vast and lonely. Just the brisk cold night blowing in through the hotel window. And outside, the blue peaks of the Big Horn mountains. The moon shining on their snowy caps. The prairie stretching out and out like a great ocean. I felt that God was with me then. The earth held me in its arms.

cavetocanvas:

Thomas Couture, Reverie, 1840-41
From the Norton Simon Museum:

This delicate painting by Thomas Couture is not a portrait but a tête d’expression: a study of the face intended to evoke a particular state of mind. The practice of infusing the depiction of a model’s face with a dreamy or wistful expression often made its way into portrait painting, particularly in portraits of women. In Reverie, exhibited at the Salon of 1841, a young girl peers suggestively out of the corners of her eyes, sizing up the viewer with adolescent curiosity. Her dewy cheeks, bedroom eyes and exposed décolletage put forth an aura of sexual availability that carried into, if subtly, the more traditional portraits of the mid-nineteenth century. Even though the tête d‘expression was a common academic exercise, Couture’s studies in particular had an impact on the artists of his day. For instance, Gustave Courbet’s moody self-portraits from the 1840s possess the same dreamy undertones. Likewise, Couture’s pupils, among them Édouard Manet and Marcellin Desboutin, were influenced by the veiled feminine seduction at work here.

thecorcorangroup:

The Woman with the Bowler Hat on the M14…Manhattan, NYC (via Anton Kawasaki)

wwwambrosecomtumblr:

Kanako Sasaki

redvelvetteacake:

all of these photos are hysterical and wonderful.

petrole:

guinevere van seenus by paolo roversi for yohji yamamoto spring summer 1997 catalog