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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 · 7h
はい、美しいですね！
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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 8h
John Clare, ‘All nature has a feeling’ (1845)...

#Photography, Josef Sudek, ‘From the Window of my Atelier,’ 1940.
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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 8h
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, ‘The Winds of Fate’ (1913)...

#Painting, ‘Autumn’ by Yokoyama Taikan, 1868-1958.
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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 9h
#Sculpture, Noh Masks, Japan (c. 1550) #art
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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 9h
#Photography by Gilbert Garcin (1929–2022) #art
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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 9h
‘Brolga,’ ‘Running Iris’ & ‘Pandanus in Flower.’ #Drawing & #engraving by Rachel Newling #art
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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 9h
‘La Folle.’ #Painting by Giacomo Balla (1905) #art
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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 9h
#Photography by Saul Leiter, New York (1962) #art #NYC
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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 13h
Yep, that seems likely, but I'd like to think they survived...
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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 13h
It's an enduring mystery what became of them, they seemed to disappear...
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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 13h
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 · 14h
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 · 14h
Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832)...

#Photography, Oscar Gustave Reijlander, ‘Grief,’ 1864.
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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 14h
‘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 · 14h
#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 · 14h
‘Man in front of yellow house,’ ‘3 white tulips’ & ‘Youth.’ #Painting by Anton Räderscheidt (1892-1970) #art
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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 14h
Probably meant to be, I think...
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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 14h
Head of one of the Four Heavenly King (Shitennō). #Sculpture by Unknown [17th - 19th century] #art #Japan
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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 14h
‘The Sailors' Discussion,’ ‘Cetara, Italy’ & ‘Self-Portrait.’ #Painting by Károly Patkó (1895-1941) #art
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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 16h
You too, Yoshimi, have a pleasant day-off!
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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 16h
Yes, I certainly will!
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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 17h
はい、大きな猫くらいの大きさです！
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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 1d
🙂
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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 1d
Yes, maybe it should!
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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 1d
Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918)...

#Art, Cleora Clark Wheeler, ‘Evening,’ Gelatin Silver with hand-colouring, 1922.
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