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I love this artwork. Incredible symbolism
Der Astralmensch (The Astral Man), Sascha Schneider The Language of the Birds, Richard Siken
Omg lol that was unintentionalđ kinda true though.
The most beautiful theatres from around the world
1. Minack Theatre, Cornwall
2. SeebĂŒhne, Bregenz Austria
3. Winter Garden, Toronto Canada
4. Opera City Hall, Tokyo Japan
5. Palau de la Musica, Barcelona Spain
6. The Tampa Theatre, America
Where the crawdads sing
Book to movie Recommendation
Sony just released the new Trailer for an upcoming adaptation to "wheren the crawdads sing". It looks amazing. It also features a breathtaking soundtrack by Taylor Swift. So excited.
Movies to watch if you love art
1. Loving Vincent (2017)
Mystery surrounds the death of famed painter Vincent van Gogh in 1890 France: This movie is a stunning visual masterpiece. It is the first animated film, that is fully painted.
2. Frida (2002)
This is the true story of Frida Kahlo (Salma Hayek) and her husband Diego Rivera (Alfred Molina), the larger-than-life painters who became the most acclaimed artists in Mexican history.
3. Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003)
When her father goes blind, Griet (Scarlett Johansson) must go to work as a maid for painter Johannes Vermeer (Colin Firth). While cleaning the house, Griet strikes up an unlikely friendship with Vermeer.
4. At eternity's Gate (2018)
Famed but tormented artist Vincent van Gogh (Willem Dafoe) spends his final years in Arles, France, painting masterworks of the natural world that surrounds him.
5. The mill and the cross (2011)
Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel (Rutger Hauer) creates his 1564 masterpiece "The Procession to Calvary. This movie literally is a moving, talking painting.
6. Midnight in Paris (2011)
While on a trip to Paris with his fiancée's family, a nostalgic screenwriter finds himself mysteriously transported to 1920s France. There he meets some of the greatest writers and artists of their time.
Beautiful animated movies you need to watch
Song of the sea
Yellow Submarine
The adventures of prince Achmed
Spirited Away
Kubo and the two strings
The best books involving classical music
Julian Barnes - The noise of time
A compact masterpiece dedicated to the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich: Barnes elegantly guides us through the trajectory of Shostakovitch's career, at the same time illuminating the tumultuous evolution of the Soviet Union.
Haruki Murakami - Absolutely on music
A deeply personal, intimate conversation about music and writing between the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author and his close friend, the former conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Leo Tolstoy - The Kreutzer Sonata
When Marshal of the Nobility Pozdnyshev suspects his wife of having an affair with her music partner, his jealousy consumes him and drives him to murder.
Thomas Mann - Doctor Faustus
Thomas Mann's last great novel is a modern reworking of the Faust legend, in which Germany sells its soul to the Devil. Mann's protagonist, the composer Adrian LeverkĂŒhn, is the flower of German culture, a brilliant, isolated, overreaching figure, his radical new music a breakneck game played by art at the very edge of impossibility.
Douglas Hofstadter - Goedel Escher Bach
Gödel, Escher, Bach is a wonderful exploration of fascinating ideas at the heart of cognitive science: meaning, reduction, recursion, and much more.
Vikram Seth - An Equal Music
Michael Holme is a violinist, a member of the successful Maggiore Quartet. He has long been haunted, though, by memories of the pianist he loved and left ten years earlier, Julia McNicholl. Now Julia, married and the mother of a small child, unexpectedly reenters his life and the romance flares up once more.
The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard by Leonard Bernstein
The varied forms of Leonard Bernstein's musical creativity have been recognized and enjoyed by millions. These lectures, Mr. Bernstein's most recent venture in musical explication, will make fascinating reading as well.
Daniel Levitin - Your Brain on music
This explores cultures in which singing is considered an essential human function, patients who have a rare disorder that prevents them from making sense of music, and scientists studying why two people may not have the same definition of pitch. At every turn, this provocative work unlocks deep secrets about how nature and nurture forge a uniquely human obsession.
It's kinda true though. Lol. Paganini is like: "pfff...i can do better than him"
my favorite painting in the whole world has got to be Franz Liszt at the Piano by Josef Danhauser just in virtue of how ABSOLUTELY DONE everybody looks with him playing the piano, like: Georges Sand? Done, Alexandre Dumas? Done, Paganini, Rossini, Berlioz (or arguably Hugo)? Done, Lisztâs wife? D o n e, Beethovenâs bust on the piano? The Most Done out of all of them
"It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially."
-Donna Tartt, The Secret History
Great books where the Main character is a writer
The following books are great reads about different struggles and events a writer can face during his career
1. Less by Andrew Sean Green
Arthur is a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: his boyfriend of the past nine years now engaged to someone else. He canât say yes--it would all be too awkward--and he canât say no--it would look like defeat. Thus begins an around-the-world-in-eighty-days fantasia that will take Arthur Less to Mexico, Italy, Germany, Morocco, India and Japan and put thousands of miles between him and the problems he refuses to face. What could possibly go wrong?
2. Misery by Stephen King
Paul Sheldon, author of a bestselling series of historical romances, wakes up one winter day in a strange place, a secluded farmhouse in Colorado. He wakes up to unspeakable pain (a dislocated pelvis, a crushed knee, two shattered legs) and to a bizarre greeting from the woman who has saved his life: "I'm your number one fan!"
3. Wonder Boys by Michael Gabon
In his first novel since The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Chabon presents a hilarious and heartbreaking workâthe story of the friendship between the "wonder boys"âGrady, an aging writer who has lost his way, and Crabtree, whose relentless debauchery is capsizing his career.
"He was like those bronze statues in public parks that, despite one lucky knee rubbed raw by schoolchildren, discolor beautifully until they match the trees"
~ "Less" by Andrew Sean Greer
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Best book to movie adaptations (2020-2021)
1. The invisible Man by Wells - The invisible man (2020)
2. Emma by Jane Austen - Emma (2020)
3. David Copperfield by Dickens - David Copperfield (2020)
4. Dune by Frank Herbert - Dune (2020)
5. Station Eleven by Emily John Mandel - Station Eleven (2021)
âI declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.â â Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
I love walking into a bookstore. It's like all my friends are sitting on shelves, waving their pages at me.
-Nightrose
I feel like a Melanie Martinez song rn
iâve been reading fantasy books since last year and i always feel something ... empty or kind of missing within me. as i read Better Than the Movies by Lynn Painter,
i just knew it.
i knew why i was feeling weird whenever i read non-romantic (or fantasy w/ romance but it isnât a major part) books. itâs because i long to feel the happy and cute-ish and fluttery smtg when i read romance.
WESLEY BENNETT, HERE I COME
justâ look at that. back then, i used to read books like this. with banging, hot guys and too-good, innocent, cute girls. and tropey romances with the typical grumpy x sunshine, girl-hates-boy-but-boy-is-secretly-in-love-with-girl, childhood enemies, etc. AAAAAAA
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