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Nicolas Robert

@robertsnickc.bsky.social

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Writer & translator. Art, music, the natural world, the state of the world. "So the paradox is, it's much easier to imagine the end of all life on earth than a much more modest radical change in capitalism.“ ~ Slavoj Žižek

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 3h

‘The Angels in the Sepulchre.’ #Painting by William Blake (c. 1805) #art

This depicts Mary Magdalene visiting the tomb of Jesus after the crucifixion & finding two angels hovering there. Aged eight, Blake told his mother he had seen a tree full of angels “bespangling every bough like stars.”

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 3h

How can the divine Oneness be seen?
In beautiful forms, breathtaking wonders,
awe-inspiring miracles?
The Tao is not obliged to present itself
in this way.

If you are willing to be lived by it, you will
see it everywhere, even in the most
ordinary things.

~ Lao Tzu (4th c. BC)

#Photography

Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 3h

“Self-love makes as many tyrants, perhaps, as love.”

~ Jean-Baptiste Imbert (1791 – 1840)

#Photography, Olive Cotton, ‘Skeleton Leaf,’ 1964.

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 3h

#Photography by Jeff Gaydash #art

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 3h

‘Brushstroke-11J.’ Charcoal & ink #drawing by Lee Bae (b. 1956) #art

Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 4h

‘London Reflections’ & ‘Landscape with a Tree.’ #Painting by Algernon Newton (1880-1968) #art

Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 4h

#Photography, Boys on a burro, Las Vegas, New Mexico (c. 1890) #NewMexico

Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 4h

‘The Horse Mart’ & ‘Under the Hammer.’ #Painting by Robert Bevan (1865–1925) #art

Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 20h

はい、美しいですね！

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 22h

John Clare, ‘All nature has a feeling’ (1845)...

#Photography, Josef Sudek, ‘From the Window of my Atelier,’ 1940.

Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 22h

Ella Wheeler Wilcox, ‘The Winds of Fate’ (1913)...

#Painting, ‘Autumn’ by Yokoyama Taikan, 1868-1958.

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 22h

#Sculpture, Noh Masks, Japan (c. 1550) #art

Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 22h

#Photography by Gilbert Garcin (1929–2022) #art

Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 22h

‘Brolga,’ ‘Running Iris’ & ‘Pandanus in Flower.’ #Drawing & #engraving by Rachel Newling #art

Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 23h

‘La Folle.’ #Painting by Giacomo Balla (1905) #art

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 23h

#Photography by Saul Leiter, New York (1962) #art #NYC

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 1d

Yep, that seems likely, but I'd like to think they survived...

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 1d

It's an enduring mystery what became of them, they seemed to disappear...

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 1d

Literature - which is art married to thought, & realisation untainted by reality - seems to me the end towards which all human effort would have to strive, if it were truly human & not just a welling up of our animal self.

~ Fernando Pessoa, ‘The Book of Disquiet’ (c. 1920)

#Photography, 1929.

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 1d

脅威を感じた場合のみ危険だと思います...そして、はい、とてもかわいいです！

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 1d

Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832)...

#Photography, Oscar Gustave Reijlander, ‘Grief,’ 1864.

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 1d

‘The Princes in the Tower.’ #Painting by John Everett Millais (1878) #art

The two princes are Richard of Shrewsbury (left) & Edward V of England (right). They are the sons of King Edward IV of England & Elizabeth Woodville. The assassin's shadow is on the stairs.

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 1d

#Photography via America in the 1920s, ‘A child and his dog in Detroit, Michigan’ (1926) #Detroit

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 1d

‘Man in front of yellow house,’ ‘3 white tulips’ & ‘Youth.’ #Painting by Anton Räderscheidt (1892-1970) #art

Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 1d

Probably meant to be, I think...