This is a journey...

As above, so below.

Monday 26 December 2011

Andrei Rublev


Old russian icons.




Mother of God
1408







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Ascension
1408







Christ the Pantocrator





Saturday 24 December 2011

Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok - Snow Wine




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Again, from the goblet, your presence
sparkling fills my heart with care--
you with your smiling innocence
and your serpentine waves of hair.

Swept off my feet in the dark stream
I again live through
a passionate forgotten dream
of kisses, of snowstorms masking you.

Your laugh your magical laughter
and in the golden goblet sway,
and lightly over your sable hair
the current of the blue wind play.

And how, looking into the liquor,
could I miss my Bacchic wreath?
and fail to remember your kisses
my face upturned to meet mouth your mouth?

29 December 1906

Thursday 15 December 2011

Saturday 10 December 2011

Reidar Särestöniemi & Särestö Museum





Seashore Flowers in Bloom
1964, oil on canvas
97 x 114 cm







Spring Sun
oil on canvas





And some pictures I took a few years back. Mostly from Särestö Museum.







































Friday 9 December 2011

Joseph Mallord William Turner


"The Sun is God"





Snowstorm - Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth
c.1842
oil on canvas










Hannibal and his men crossing the Alps
oil on canvas, 1810-1812
145 x 236 cm







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Death on a Pale Horse
1825
Oil on canvas
597 cm x 765 cm








Sunrise with Sea Monsters
1845
oil on canvas









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Shade and Darkness - The Evening of the Deluge
1843
oil on canvas
(stolen 1994)







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Light and Colour (Goethe's Theory) - the Morning After the Deluge, Moses Writing the Book of Genesis
1843
oil on canvas





Thursday 8 December 2011

Claude Monet





Impression, Sunrise
48 x 63 cm, 1872
oil on canvas






Poppies, Near Argenteuil
1873
oil on canvas







Rouen Cathedral, the West Portal and Saint-Romain Tower, Full Sunlight, Harmony in Blue and Gold
1893, oil on canvas
107 x 73 cm







Houses of Parliament, London, Sun Breaking Through the Fog
oil on canvas, 1904
81 x 92 cm







Houses of Parliament, London
1905
oil on canvas







The Artist's Garden at Givenry
1900






Antoine Wiertz




Hunger, Madness, Crime








Une tête de Mort
1824, oil on canvas
56 x 43 cm





The Premature Burial
1854, oil on canvas





The Young Sorceress
oil on canvas





Sunday 18 September 2011

Elk heads



The Elk Head of Huittinen
circa 6000-7000 BC


The wooden Elk head of Rovaniemi
circa 5700 BC

Friday 16 September 2011

Thursday 15 September 2011

Francisco Goya




Witches' Sabbath
(also known as "The Great He-Goat)
1823


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Witches' Sabbath
1789


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Saturn Devouring His Son
1819-1823

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The Dog
1819-1823

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The Colossus
1808-1812




Monday 12 September 2011

Aleister Crowley - At Sea





As night hath stars, more rare than ships
In ocean, faint from pole to pole,
So all the wonder of her lips
Hints her innavigable soul.

Such lights she gives as guide my bark;
But I am swallowed in the swell
Of her heart’s ocean, sagely dark,
That holds my heaven and holds my hell.

In her I live, a mote minute
Dancing a moment in the sun:
In her I die, a sterile shoot
Of nightshade in oblivion.

In her my self dissolves, a grain
Of salt cast careless in the sea;
My passion purifies my pain
To peace past personality.

Love of my life, God grant the years
Confirm the chrism - rose to rood!
Anointing loves, asperging tears
In sanctifying solitude!

Man is so infinitely small
In all these stars, determinate.
Maker and moulder of them all,
Man is so infinitely great!



Sunday 11 September 2011

Peter Beste





From Beste's excellent book True Norwegian Black Metal:




Furze
Sandvika, Norway


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Kvitrafn
Bergen, Norway


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Frost in a Cave
Nesodden, Norway




From a Immortal photoshoot, 2009



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