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Black in Deep Red, Mark Rothko, 1957.
slowartday:

Piet Mondrian, Amaryllis, watercolor, 1910
artmastered:

Terry Frost, Through Blacks, 1969
cavetocanvas:

John Ruskin, Full Face of Cobra, 1871
cavetocanvas:

Tauba Auerbach, Binary Lowercase, 2006
ancientart:

Aztec skull with mosaic inlay of turkois, shells and mother-of-pearl, Mexico. 

On the forehead of the skull a snake has been depicted. Probably this person had a special connection to the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl, the feathered snake. Mixtec craftsmen were very skilled in the art of making mosaics -only a few objects of their work remain.

Courtesy & currently located at the National Museum of Ethnology, the Netherlands. Photo taken by ease.
No one will be alive by the last book. In fact, they all die in the fifth. The sixth book will be just a thousand-page description of snow blowing across the graves.
— George R.R. Martin
(when asked if he was going to let any Game of Thrones/Song of Ice and Fire characters live)

(Source: let-them-eat-static, via davidfinchered)


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