Auguste Toulmouche 1829-1890 Frankrijk

Has anyone ever asked you to read books to change your life? Here are the 21 best life-changing books that altered my understanding of life. (+ some more from recent years)

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Paintings can be far more complicated than they appear at first glance. The stories told by works of art are the stuff of novels. Here are a few of the stories behind famous masterpieces.

“❝He remembered the way love had burned through him like a flame under glass, grasping outward, devouring what air it had left before it choked. How he hated it; desperately he had tried to keep it burning.❞ ──𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐡 𝐍𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫, These Violent Delights.”

Canadian artist Alexandra Levasseur (previously covered here) has new oil and acrylic paintings on view at Mirus Gallery, "Body of Land". Her tormented yet feminine subjects, painted in an expressionist style, make a reappearance as if out of a dream. Levasseur's artwork has always exhibited dreamlike qualities. Here, her subjects exist somewhere between a deep subconscious state and wakefulness. We find them melting into abstract landscapes, non-descript yet wild and untouched. In some of…