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Rate Lovecraft's dream:

>I myself had just alighted from a litter, which the Illyrian bearers seemed to have brought in some haste from Calagurris, across the Iberus to the southward. It appeared that I was a provincial quæstor named L. Cælius Rufus, and that I had been summoned by the proconsul, P. Scribonius Libo, who had come from Tarraco some days before. The soldiers were the fifth cohort of the XIIth legion, under the military tribune Sex. Asellius; and the legatus of the whole region, Cn. Balbutius, had also come from Calagurris, where the permanent station was.

more at the link:
http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/vof.aspx

>>13412805

If you are good with languages and already know Latin, you can't do better than Mastronarde.

>>10477933
I used the picture as an inspiration point, that's all. Here's another one you won't like and the painting I started with.

Awake Unexpectedly

Black with swimming
grey—
mist? ash?
Your breath on the window
with fingerprint trails pointing
up?

Phoenix feathers wilt into
rough smoke swirls together
making shapes, collapsing,
making shapes.
A catch of moon or starlight
in the corner

Her leg curled around him—
a pale bolt into the darkness
curving its way
towards feet, sheets,
ground beneath. With the
electricity in the air,
he stirs, she is stirred

The fierce brightening is
what’s important here.
In the scramble there are
accidental limbs.
There is definitely passion—
or at least excitement

He gasps her up and
darts outside, the horse’s forelegs
curl and flex—ready
to buffet the road below.
He rears and muscles shine
like metal in the fire.

Her eyes are closed tightly.
His eyes are wild
and blank.
He is grasping frantically
towards the light—
maybe not to safety
but to something

>>9524101
OP here again. I hope what i said makes sense to you all.

>>9524110
thanks senpai. i was looking for stuff that deals with an overview of art in general (not specific to modern) but i'll check it out for sure.

>>7808874

>>5211921
Google Holocene extinction

It's funny how shit like social justice takes the front seat over stuff like this. just shows how fucking self-involved humans are