i’m an artist. i’m nostalgic.Tumblr (3.0; @florawillsaveme)http://florawillsaveme.tumblr.com/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/e8739ef960e6f8b776c1b81728c89d2a/tumblr_mnmh6h2I5R1rt0ya9o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://kittyinva.tumblr.com/post/53360990847/a-1928-illustration-by-webster-of-a-girl-in-a" class="tumblr_blog">kittyinva</a>:</p> <blockquote><p>A 1928 illustration by Webster of a girl in a beautiful Spanish shawl.</p></blockquote>http://florawillsaveme.tumblr.com/post/53401593935http://florawillsaveme.tumblr.com/post/53401593935Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:14:02 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/1330efb48ab5a3622c2c4f96c9026d76/tumblr_mo6rlnCQCe1qe0lqqo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://mpdrolet.tumblr.com/post/53381089558/forth-street-newcastle-upon-tyne-2012-adrian" class="tumblr_blog">mpdrolet</a>:</p> <blockquote><p><strong>Forth Street, Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2012</strong></p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adesphotos/8408958734/">Adrian Finlay</a></p></blockquote>http://florawillsaveme.tumblr.com/post/53382320976http://florawillsaveme.tumblr.com/post/53382320976Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:34:05 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/be42a418e9b7a225b81db2b86a87307c/tumblr_mo6ynnJDQW1s9mf2ho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://markdeutrom.tumblr.com/post/52644713795/john-waterhouse-the-magic-circle-1886">markdeutrom</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_William_Waterhouse">John Waterhouse</a> - The Magic Circle, 1886.</p> </blockquote>http://florawillsaveme.tumblr.com/post/53381100195http://florawillsaveme.tumblr.com/post/53381100195Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:17:24 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/53a21280a2d5deaf966079a5d233fb3e/tumblr_mom4osLSCg1qghk7bo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.cavetocanvas.com/post/53379910775/irving-penn-colette-1951" class="tumblr_blog">cavetocanvas</a>:</p> <blockquote><p><a href="http://www.clevelandart.org/art/1966.141?collection_search_query=irving+penn&year_operator=1&year=&year_era=1&year_end=&year_end_era=1&op=search&form_build_id=form-V24OxcI4a44z4p7rfYOfC8YbR0yzh-xeowQkocHoR8U&form_id=clevelandart_collection_search_form">Irving Penn</a>, <em>Colette</em>, 1951</p></blockquote>http://florawillsaveme.tumblr.com/post/53381070602http://florawillsaveme.tumblr.com/post/53381070602Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:17:00 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/85bf8f32170bb8c2efa38ae4feab1301/tumblr_mo8vd0BXie1ral7z2o1_r1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://feuille-d-automne.tumblr.com/post/53279019164/cliff-house-1900-via">feuille-d-automne</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Cliff House , 1900.</p> <p><a href="http://i.ebayimg.com/t/c-1900-VICTORIAN-CLIFF-HOUSE-w-LADY-on-WHITE-HORSE-8x10-SEPIA-HAZELTINE-PHOTO-/00/s/MTYwMFgxMjkz/%24(KGrHqRHJE0E-uglfkTfBP1iqFh!SQ~~60_57.JPG">Via </a></p> </blockquote>http://florawillsaveme.tumblr.com/post/53378454750http://florawillsaveme.tumblr.com/post/53378454750Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:40:41 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/8e7fc217c2f65c46a560b44dcccbefc0/tumblr_mon6bglFBL1stkzrqo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://sollertias.tumblr.com/post/53356442841/the-sonata-by-irving-ramsey-wiles-1889-detail" class="tumblr_blog">sollertias</a>:</p> <blockquote><p><small>The Sonata by Irving Ramsey Wiles, 1889 (detail)</small></p></blockquote>http://florawillsaveme.tumblr.com/post/53378283748http://florawillsaveme.tumblr.com/post/53378283748Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:38:19 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/098fd89c77f3b3f3061316e0d8762b9b/tumblr_mona1erhTK1ru2qa4o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://bofransson.tumblr.com/post/53359898681/bouquet-of-flowers-in-a-green-vase-albert-marquet">bofransson</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Bouquet of Flowers in a Green Vase <strong>Albert Marquet</strong></p> </blockquote>http://florawillsaveme.tumblr.com/post/53377885556http://florawillsaveme.tumblr.com/post/53377885556Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:32:44 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/2277ecbf7adbb1222c6988b01133304f/tumblr_monalbNeYX1ru2qa4o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://bofransson.tumblr.com/post/53360482191/head-of-sally-milton-avery-1938">bofransson</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Head of Sally <strong>Milton Avery</strong> - 1938</p> </blockquote>http://florawillsaveme.tumblr.com/post/53377802666http://florawillsaveme.tumblr.com/post/53377802666Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:31:36 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/258ec6a20c71f5e476fdc1ff04c13060/tumblr_mhzd41nckk1qgvdf9o1_250.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/edb0442558f46d9ff34e6e6b181291c8/tumblr_mhzd41nckk1qgvdf9o2_250.gif"/><br/> <br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://yousayperfect-isaystreep.tumblr.com/post/47806368467/for-southendgirls-helen-mirren-not-dealing">yousayperfect-isaystreep</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://for-southendgirls.tumblr.com/post/44476454893/helen-mirren-not-dealing-with">for-southendgirls</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><small>Helen Mirren: Not dealing with your misogynistic bullshit since 1975.</small></p> </blockquote> <p>her face, lol….  </p> </blockquote>http://florawillsaveme.tumblr.com/post/53377445452http://florawillsaveme.tumblr.com/post/53377445452Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:26:37 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/75a36beb65cf8c4b8901b3102f2e1f93/tumblr_mondkl4pQb1s7f3fyo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://natgeofound.tumblr.com/post/53363909287/two-women-in-southeast-asia-discuss-the-days" class="tumblr_blog">natgeofound</a>:</p> <blockquote><p>Two women in Southeast Asia discuss the day’s news, May 1921.<br/><span>Photograph by M. Branger and Sons</span></p></blockquote>http://florawillsaveme.tumblr.com/post/53377356165http://florawillsaveme.tumblr.com/post/53377356165Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:25:21 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/f4fa4736b27ecb44964081bc3d8b46fa/tumblr_mongyaGwWR1qz6f9yo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://thisisnthappiness.com/post/53368285065/the-night-blooming-cereus" class="tumblr_blog">nevver</a>:</p> <blockquote><p><a href="http://oblog.designobserver.com/post/flowering-pages/37918/#.UcHk8LvLi8Q">The Night Blooming Cereus</a></p></blockquote>http://florawillsaveme.tumblr.com/post/53373794811http://florawillsaveme.tumblr.com/post/53373794811Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:33:25 -0400“None of us can ever retrieve that innocence before all theory when art knew no need to<br/> justify itself, when one did not ask of a work of art what it said because one knew (or<br/> thought one knew) what it did. From now to the end of consciousness, we are stuck<br/> with the task of defending art.”<br/><br/> - <em>Susan Sontag - <a href="http://www.uiowa.edu/~c08g001d/Sontag_AgainstInterp.pdf">Against Interpretation of Art</a> (via <a href="http://solsetur.tumblr.com/" class="tumblr_blog">solsetur</a>)</em>http://florawillsaveme.tumblr.com/post/53373492968http://florawillsaveme.tumblr.com/post/53373492968Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:28:54 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/3c802b04c7201a5f0c7ac4a5f713fb89/tumblr_monk0nAk541rqrk5fo1_400.png"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://simena.tumblr.com/post/53372552325/narcisse-virgile-diaz-de-la-pena" class="tumblr_blog">simena</a>:</p> <blockquote><h1>NARCISSE-VIRGILE DIAZ DE LA PEÑA</h1></blockquote> <p></p>http://florawillsaveme.tumblr.com/post/53373453962http://florawillsaveme.tumblr.com/post/53373453962Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:28:18 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/3ecda6bf98b2cb9dab909bfe6c7f2df3/tumblr_mom4h9jEew1qghk7bo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.cavetocanvas.com/post/53372861683/irving-penn-nude-no-1-1949-50-from-the" class="tumblr_blog">cavetocanvas</a>:</p> <blockquote><p>Irving Penn, <em>Nude No. 1</em>, 1949-50</p> <p>From the <a href="http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/190038335?rpp=20&pg=1&ao=on&ft=irving+penn&pos=4">Metropolitan Museum of Art</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><span>By 1950, Penn was a well-known Vogue portrait and fashion photographer but had already made, privately, a major series of nudes—a personal but lesser-known body of work. During the week, he photographed models wearing fashionable clothes for the magazine, but weekends and evenings he made studies of female nudes. The women were full-bodied and the photographs unorthodox, recalling the form and spirit of archaic fertility idols.</span></p> </blockquote></blockquote>http://florawillsaveme.tumblr.com/post/53373417610http://florawillsaveme.tumblr.com/post/53373417610Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:27:45 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/dcfbc6775cbed45c86da0f8524b30a6d/tumblr_momeoow90j1qg8dy1o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>169 #anabstractaday</p>http://florawillsaveme.tumblr.com/post/53330826312http://florawillsaveme.tumblr.com/post/53330826312Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:21:59 -0400anabstractaday<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/6726310e3658ef22f80fa94f221bdb6b/tumblr_molwlcnUUn1sp44l9o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://fuckyeahpreraphaelites.tumblr.com/post/53317267282/night-1870-edward-burne-jones" class="tumblr_blog">fuckyeahpreraphaelites</a>:</p> <blockquote><p><span>Night (1870), Edward Burne-Jones</span></p></blockquote>http://florawillsaveme.tumblr.com/post/53326065033http://florawillsaveme.tumblr.com/post/53326065033Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:15:31 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/17b085f3c58b1e6d3d70ec45d18e5a43/tumblr_mom692EIiH1qfcyz0o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://fuckyeahpreraphaelites.tumblr.com/post/53317624211/portrait-of-rosalind-edward-robert-hughes" class="tumblr_blog">fuckyeahpreraphaelites</a>:</p> <blockquote><p><em>Portrait of Rosalind</em>, Edward Robert Hughes</p></blockquote>http://florawillsaveme.tumblr.com/post/53326047853http://florawillsaveme.tumblr.com/post/53326047853Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:15:17 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/c1004225fdfa908ef5ec56e7cdc6eb5d/tumblr_molqytHeAQ1rnw5qjo1_500.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/e98f61dad420007e4357f9a2ba5511b3/tumblr_molqytHeAQ1rnw5qjo2_500.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/0a1cfd6e4e447e505edbad9370840953/tumblr_molqytHeAQ1rnw5qjo3_500.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/e1fae7efb874a9966dcdc94136a54d79/tumblr_molqytHeAQ1rnw5qjo4_500.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/c5c62bbc17ae0f499068f388815e6660/tumblr_molqytHeAQ1rnw5qjo5_500.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/a8325d4d82e39df0c6778dd53fd54cc1/tumblr_molqytHeAQ1rnw5qjo6_500.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/047afc9cb897ddefa063b6352403202f/tumblr_molqytHeAQ1rnw5qjo7_500.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/3dc81ee0fe49f5b73607b72240de5a8c/tumblr_molqytHeAQ1rnw5qjo8_500.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/c9d84465980fecbcf595d903be0f1009/tumblr_molqytHeAQ1rnw5qjo9_500.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/4cdc066693f147d8ff88386e05c8745c/tumblr_molqytHeAQ1rnw5qjo10_500.png"/><br/> <br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://beatonna.tumblr.com/post/53293882412/theres-something-wonderful-about-marvin-bilecks">beatonna</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>There’s something wonderful about Marvin Bileck’s minimal illustrations for <a href="http://myvintagebookcollectioninblogform.blogspot.jp/">All About the Stars</a>.  </p> </blockquote>http://florawillsaveme.tumblr.com/post/53325740950http://florawillsaveme.tumblr.com/post/53325740950Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:11:01 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/e13ca4b33a9e9ecc12b4d7c6fdf66a99/tumblr_mokwosmBKW1qahuhjo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://yama-bato.tumblr.com/post/53264104596/rorschach-by-yama-bato-c-yama-bato-2013">yama-bato</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><span class="st"><em>Rorschach</em></span></p> <p>By yama-bato</p> <p>©<em>yama-bato,2013</em></p> </blockquote>http://florawillsaveme.tumblr.com/post/53278474623http://florawillsaveme.tumblr.com/post/53278474623Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:38:44 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/cd674b1d5e30ad803ce94e16da65a76a/tumblr_mol052ESVi1qzbe2so1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://replek.tumblr.com/post/53266500641/moebius">replek</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>moebius </p> </blockquote>http://florawillsaveme.tumblr.com/post/53278393917http://florawillsaveme.tumblr.com/post/53278393917Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:37:06 -0400