Daniyal Javed (PSP, Oxon)

A.R. Chughtai portrays a lady lost in her thoughts as the wick of the lamp behind her glows silently.

Salman Toor ~
1983 -

Bar Boy - 2019
Oil on wood.

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Playground II, 🎨 by Salman Toor

New York mayor Zohran Mamdani appears in an early Salman Toor painting.

Untitled https://www.wikiart.org/en/zdislav-beksinski/untitled-14

Untitled https://www.wikiart.org/en/zdislav-beksinski/untitled-578

Dress

Dress https://www.wikiart.org/en/norman-rockwell/dress

Willie Gillis in College

Willie Gillis in College https://www.wikiart.org/en/norman-rockwell/willie-gillis-in-college-1946

Second Story Sunlight - 1960
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3103493

Office in a Small City - 1953
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3103521

Philosophy of Mind The best philosophy of mind books, as recommended by distinguished philosopher, Keith Frankish.

"Philosophers of mind also think about conceptual issues. Take the question of whether we have free will. We might be able to do some relevant scientific experiments. But to answer the question we also need to understand what we mean by ‘free will’."
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Peder Mørk Monsted, (Danese 1859-1941)

Inverno a Brøndbyvester (1923)

#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt

This watercolor on paper painting by esteemed Pakistani artist Abdur Rahman Chughtai shows a scene from a poem by celebrated 19th century Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib about a woman who continues to wait for her lover even after the light from the candle has extinguished. Golden moths are falling over the woman who is reclined in front of a doorway on a thin flat beneath mattress beneath a dark tall gold candle stand. The motif of burnt moths which went too close to fire often appears in Persian literature and paintings to symbolize the fragility of passionate love. Abdur Rehman Chughtai is a Pakistani painter who worked in Lahore around the time the city was still in the territory of British India. He established his original style by fusing different ways of expression including the tradition of Bengali School led by Abanindranath Tagore, Indian miniature painting, modern Japanese painting, and Art Nouveau. Using fluid colors and elegant lines which are the characteristics of the "wash technique" of Bengali School, he made a range of delicate poetic paintings of Hindu and Buddhist myths, historical figures in Islam, and Urdu and Persian poetry. He is considered to be "the first significant modern Muslim artist from Pakistan," and the "national artist of Pakistan." On Pakistan's independence day in 1951, he produced a set of 9 stamps, better known as 'Chughtai Art set'. At that time, this set was considered as the most beautiful stamps of the world. Poet Mirza Asadullah Beg Khan, commonly known as Mirza Ghalib, is widely regarded as one of the greatest poets in the Urdu language. He also produced a significant body of work in Persian. Ghalib's poetry often addresses existential struggle, sorrows, and socio-political disturbances, particularly the decline of the Mughal Empire. Even thought he spent most of his life in poverty, his work remains popular not only in the Indian subcontinent but also among the Hindustani diaspora around the world.

The Extinguished Flame by Abdur Rahman Chughtai (Pakistani) - Watercolor on paper / 1920s - Fukuoka Asian Art Museum (Japan) #womeninart #art #watercolorart #artwork #PakistaniArtist #PakistaniArt #FukuokaAsianArtMuseum #福岡アジア美術館 #womensart #AbdurRahmanChughtai #Chughtai #Ghalib #MirzaGhalib #poetry

Jamil Naqsh

People in office should present evidence to their assertions. Illegal immigrants don’t bring wealth to the US. The have nothing to sell but their labor. How do they have enough disposable income to disproportionately change housing market? And, who would give them the loan without credit history?

"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."

— Aesop, c. 620-564 BCE

"November 13th is #WorldKindnessDay, which highlights good deeds focusing on the positive power and the common thread of kindness for good which binds us."

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The empire of lights - 1954
https://botfrens.com/collections/61/contents/20193

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Landscape with a rider (unfinished) - 1966
https://botfrens.com/collections/61/contents/20512

The House at Rueil

The House at Rueil

Bouquet of flowers

Bouquet of flowers

The garden around Manet's house

The garden around Manet's house

Beggar with Oysters
by Édouard Manet

The Kiss is a subject that Munch returned to several times from 1895 to 1902. He first explored the motif in a painting and an etching before embarking on this woodcut version, which stresses a more simplified, abstract composition. In this print, Munch cut the figures out of one block of wood, roughly gouging away the faces and hands. Over this he printed a piece of wood with a strong vertical grain in a light shade of grey, making it seem as if the kiss is as elemental as nature itself. The result is an image with a profound resonance, a timeless symbol of intimacy and unity.

The Kiss IV 1902 (printed c. 1913)
https://botfrens.com/collections/90/contents/1237021

Office at Night - 1940
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3103839

Pound Farm by Cedric Morris c. 1930
Oil on Canvas
(Ipswich Museums and Galleries)
To followers who don't know this is an example of a house painted 'Suffolk Pink". It dates back to the 14th Century and was generally a mix of pig or ox blood and limewash.

Sainte-Adresse, Fishing Boats on the Shore - 1867
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/6805

THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM Kay Ryan The room is almost all elephant. Almost none of it isn't. Pretty much solid elephant. So there's no room to talk about it.

The room is
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.

-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem