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The esteemed Louis Wain., with “Cats’ NIghtmare.”

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Baldomero Romero Ressendi

पीली पीली सरसों फूल  (Yellow are the mustard flowers)
पीली उड़े पतंग (The flying kite is yellow)
ओ पीली पीली उड़ी चुनरिया (The chunariya that flies is yellow)
ओ पीली पगड़ी के संग  (along with the yellow turban)
- opening lines of the spring/basant song from Upkar. 

Vasant Panchami or the beginning of the spring season is on the 5th day of the waxing moon of Magh i.e. 12 February 2016 and is celebrated in the Northern part of India.

The colour yellow is associated with the day, be it clothes or rice coloured with saffron.

Also the day for worshipping Saraswati in some parts of the country e.g. Bengal. And in days past the day for a festival in honour of Kamadeva aka the God of Love, though the celebration shifted with time from April to the beginning of spring and is no longer celebrated. 

Painting credit: Samar Ghose via Satyasri Ukil Barishkar. 

PS:Obviously I love spring posts. 

Chuikov’s interesting Indian series is an organic continuation of his Kyrgyz theme. It conveys, with impressive honesty, the life of simple people, creating a picture of the character of a people. Through Chuikov’s paintings we visually grasp qualities of our world, and the human need for happiness, and for a harmonious existence, light, and joy (artinrussia.org). 

Indian GirlandCalcutta Student (1955-56). From the book Indian Images (1956) by Semyon Chuikov (Семён Чуйков). 

Like the contrast of sari and blouse and the jhumkas of pic 1. 

Rustic Beauty, Sudhir Khastgir, 1943. Via Osians. 

the-evil-clergyman:

Illustration from Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene by Walter Crane (1895)

1985 by K. Sparks (@Ksparkstv)

Dope video about mental illness and addiction in K. Sparks’ family. It’s off his new project called “Vintage Art”

Pullman / Vacation Lands Are Calling. 1936. William P. Welsh.

20 ¾ x 27 3/8 in./52.8 x 69.4 cm

She stands on the top of the world, painting on a mountaintop as the seagulls wave in semaphore. “Vacation lands are calling.”

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