The Arena - Desmond Morris

Rene Magritte ~ “Sixteenth of September”, 1956

“Growing from the earth to the sun, a tree is an image of certain happiness. To perceive this image we must be immobile like the tree. When we are moving, it is the tree which becomes the spectator. It is witness, equally, in the shape of chairs, tables and doors, to the more or less agitated spectacle of our life. The tree, having become a coffin, disappears into the earth. And when it is transformed into fire, it vanishes into air.“ ~ Rene Magritte

Conifers. Illustrations from the Botanical Atlas by B. Shishkin (1963)

Sent i november/Moominvalley in November

Artist: Tove Jansson

Madison is fun so far it’s just very COLD

hi y’all I live in Madison Wisconsin now! where the mutuals at

hi y’all I live in Madison Wisconsin now! where the mutuals at

Jean-Frédéric Schnyder (Swiss, b. 1945)

Evening sun (Untitled), N/D

Oil on linen

“Giant cactus and yucca region of northern Mexico.” Ferdinand Hirt’s geographische Bildertafeln. 1884. 

“Northern hard fern.” The ferns of Derbyshire. 1877.

Aquarium fish. Blätter für Aquarien- und Terrarien-Kunde. 1895. 

Read the caption to i.d. fish.

Ana Mercedes Hoyos (Colombian, 1942-2014)

Bananas Still Life, N/D

Oil on canvas

Heinz Mack (German, born 1931) 

Antarctic, 1968

Color screenprint, 90 x 67 cm

Plant architecture, Remedios Varo

A Street Scene from Riga, 1925, Mstislav Dobuzhinsky

Size: 31x23.5 cm Medium: watercolor, paper

Memory, 1948, Rene Magritte

Medium: oil, canvas

Timon Sloane (based Los Altos, CA, USA) - At Peace Paintings: Oil on Canvas