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Big Green Books (Simon) @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 10h

PRETEND you're a professional footballer by putting your hand over your mouth whenever you talk.

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Paul Brightwell @brightwell.bsky.social · 9h

Exactly

Paul Brightwell @brightwell.bsky.social · 22h

When asked where he got his characters from, Kurt Vonnegut replied “Cincinnati “.

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Paul Brightwell @brightwell.bsky.social · 1d

Kurt Schwitters
Radblumen
1920

This crunchy little assemblage has turned up for auction at Christie's. It's inscribed "für Vordemberge"; Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart was an abstract painter and typographer and a friend and colleague of Schwitters, Arp and Van Doesburg.

An assemblage in oil, paper, card, and canvas with metal washers and wheels and strips of fabric, on cardboard

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Paul Brightwell @brightwell.bsky.social · 2d

Käthe Kollwitz
Stehende Frau, nach links
1888

charcoal on buff paper
55.3 x 44.1 cm

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Chloe Cumming @chloecumming.bsky.social · 4d

I’ll leave you with this drawing by my son (aged 12) He used to be scared by the visions his mind conjured up (possibly hyperphantasic) but when he started drawing them he took control and now seems quite happy. So don’t worry about him.

A spindly man saying ‘I can’t stop’ with a pointy hat and a sewn together mouth, drawn with fineliner, very carefully

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Paul Brightwell @brightwell.bsky.social · 4d

Frank Auerbach
Study for Tree on Primrose Hill
1986

oil on canvas
40.6 x 45 cm

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Paul Brightwell @brightwell.bsky.social · 5d

René Magritte
Torse nu dans les nuages
c. late 1930s

oil on canvas
72.5 x 60.0 cm

Sotheby's at Hamiltons

A naked sea-green female torso on a sand-coloured base against a black background and surrounded by fluffy white clouds. A simply representational picture; at the same time, the torso seems to depict some kind of seascape.

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Guggenheim Collection @guggenheim.bsky.social · 6d

Open Book by Paul Klee, 1930
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137340

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Estate of Karl Nierendorf, By purchase

© 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

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Paul Brightwell @brightwell.bsky.social · 13d

Interesting how exactly this maps onto psychedelic experience; opium was much more than just a kick for Sam

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Paul Brightwell @brightwell.bsky.social · 13d

Always thought you can read a lot in to that image: John and (particularly) Paul really going for it, Ringo on the edge and just gesturing it; George, somehow contriving both to be there and not to be there. He looks as though he's been blown up out of the bomb crater and is feeling grumpy about it

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Paul Brightwell @brightwell.bsky.social · 13d

Tribute to Blue Note cover art and Charlie's love of jazz

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Paul Brightwell @brightwell.bsky.social · 13d

P.S. by Franz Wright

I close my eyes and see
a seagull in the desert
high, against unbearably blue sky.

There is hope in the past.

I’m writing to you
all the time, I am writing

with both hands,
day and night.

from WALKING TO MARTHA’S VINEYARD, Knopf 2004

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