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Léon Spilliaert: A Mysterious World Between Light And Darkness

Léon Spilliaert takes us into a world of light, shadow and mystery. His art draws us in and threatens to smother us.

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About Spilliaert:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Spilliaert

#art #paintings

Self-Portrait with a Red Pencil by Léon Spilliaert, 1908.

During his youth, Spilliaert painted a series of self-portraits. Initially, these were simple representations of his appearance, but later they evolved into complex images in which reality, reflection, and fantasy merge.

In Self-Portrait with Red Pencil, he depicted himself as a black silhouette with dark-rimmed eyes. He holds a red pencil in his hand with determination. He is in a room in his parents' house, bathed in nighttime light, wearing a dark suit with a stiff collar, which he often wore. Everyone who met Spilliaert at that time was struck by his appearance, which betrayed his tormented, restless soul.

https://www.muzee.be/nl/collectie-1/zelfportret-met-rood-potlood

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:L%C3%A9on_Spilliaert_-_Self-Portrait_with_a_Red_Pencil.jpg

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"It's delicious genius!" - Donna Barr, creator of the Desert Peach and Stinz

Just a nice #Christian girl trying to stay pure. In every way that counts.

#Blasphemous, condemned, yet quite #sexy: #SuzySpreadwell #paintings and #prints here: http://www.jlroberson.org/comix/suzy/painting/index.html
#art #comics #satire #religion

Follow the new issue #WIP at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/jlroberson/posts?tag=suzy%20spreadwell

Buy issue 1 (digital only) at:
#Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Suzy-Spreadwell-John-Linton-Roberson-ebook/dp/B07H6MZ4VN
#GooglePlay: https://play.google.com/store/books/details/John_Linton_Roberson_Suzy_Spreadwell?id=mdovDwAAQBAJ #nsfw #easter #jesus #satan

From the current episode of Suzy Spreadwell, being serialized at Patreon:
http://www.patreon.com/jlroberson

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"Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings or drawings in the poorest cottages, in the dirtiest corners. And my mind is driven towards these things with an irresistible momentum."

In his letter to Theo, from The Hague, 21 July 1882

~Vincent van Gogh (30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890)

Vincent van Gogh Letters:
https://vangoghletters.org/vg/

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"Greatest gifts are seen raining down from heavenly influences into human bodies many times naturally; and above natural sometimes overflowingly coupling in one body beauty, grace, and virtue, in a manner that wherever that fellow turns, each of his actions is so divine, that leaving behind all other men, manifestly makes itself known for a thing (as it is) bestowed by God, and not acquired by human art. This men saw in Leonardo da Vinci."

~Giorgio Vasari

#paintings #sculptures #architecture