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I have a print of this in my bedroom that was my mother’s and used to sit in my parents‘ fireplace in their bedroom when I was little. I find it especially poignant because her print is only a section of the painting that includes the mother and child, and my mother never got to grow old and become the final age. Sometimes the old woman in this painting is interpreted as the remembrance of death, so it not being in her print feels fitting for my mother who so desperately wanted to live to be with her children. it was her birthday yesterday so I felt I had to include it. I also find it meaningful in a way I can’t describe that the only other painting I inherited from her was John William waterhouse’ The Lady of Shallot, another of my favourites, which is also a woman dying.
Jul 27, 2024
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my favorite Klimt painting. my parents had it in their room for years and i loved looking at it. then they replaced it with something else and just put it away! so i took it &now i can look at it all day
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Mary Cassatt is just such a cool lady and this painting shows women in a real moment which I love.
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I am by no means traditionally religious, but I fully understand how being in the presence of beautiful stained glass can feel like being with god. ALWAYS stop off at a church on the way if you think it might have good stained glass. The bluebells in the bottom right corner of this made me loose my breath for a moment.
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