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"Something looks back from the trees, and knows me for who I am."
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Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

Egon Schiele, “Lovers” (1909)

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The Violet Family.

Arts and Crafts-style botanical illustrations by H. Isabel Adams taken from ‘Wild Flowers of the British Isles.’

Published 1907 by William Heinemann.

Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, McLean Library.

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i have a weird appreciation for Baroque artists, in particular Francois Boucher and Peter Paul Rubens, for depicting the human body in lush detail at a time that predates the standards for bodies to be thin and airbrushed with no wrinkles or cellulite

it’s just really interesting to me

so many the things women are taught to hate about their bodies—pudgy bellies, fat rolls, double chins, and cellulite—used to be ideals of beauty shown in depictions of goddesses

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