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An afternoon’s worth

26 Tuesday Sep 2017

Posted by Betty Zhang in Beauty, Petit Passages

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aesthetics, art, classic music, music, prose, writer, writing

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Light is fading, and with it the sun’s warmth. The room—golden and glorious just then—seems bigger and impossibly empty without that radiant guest. Drenched of the life it bestowed upon them for that brief, sacred moment, what adorned the room now shrunk in size. They will swell again, in size and in beauty, Continue reading →

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On leaving the art gallery

16 Friday Jun 2017

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art, art gallery, greek mythology, literature, prose, writer, writing

rodinI loathed to leave the gallery. In the darkening light of dusk its magnificence expanded outwards, casting an enchanted aura over its surroundings. Even the parklands opposite where I walked became magic at its touch. Still I walked, stopping every so often to glance backwards, whereupon I beheld with marvellous longing the architecture to which I could return time and again. The consequence of my backward glances, I am happy to announce, was that I was simply very late for supper. Had I been a hero in a love story and the art gallery my deceased beloved—I am sure you have all heard of the poor chap—it would have been lost to me forever.

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Dancing in the woods: a visual essay on the soundscape of Chopin

16 Tuesday May 2017

Posted by Betty Zhang in Beauty

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art, chopin, cinema, feelings, imagination, mood, mood board, movie, music, nature, romanticism

atonement.gif Continue reading →

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Vincent

06 Tuesday Dec 2016

Posted by Betty Zhang in Notes

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art, artist, culture, literature, love, painting, poem, poetry, vincent van gogh, writer, writing

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Orange ‘n’ blue / Van Gogh my boo

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Diluted sham

11 Friday Nov 2016

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advertising, art, cat, food, health, humor, lifestyle, poster, vintage, writer, writing

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Skim milk.

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@Will_Shake

03 Thursday Nov 2016

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art, artist, humor, internet, literature, social media, technology, twitter, william shakespeare, writer

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King of Twitter, time-travel permitting. Entertainers, begone; comedians—get thee home!

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In the mood for Ophelia

01 Tuesday Nov 2016

Posted by Betty Zhang in Beauty

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aesthetics, art, Beauty, colors, hamlet, history, literature, love, mood, mood board, ophelia, poem, poetry, romanticism, shakespeare, tragedy

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Sir John Everett Millais, Ophelia, 1851-2, oil on canvas

A mood board inspired by Shakespeare’s tragic heroine Ophelia (Hamlet). Her madness-led demise by drowning was deemed one of the Bard’s most breathtaking death announcements and, with the aid of this ethereal depiction on canvas by Victorian painter Sir John Everett Millais, her death lives to this day, immortalised by Romantics then and now.

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There is a willow grows aslant a brook,

That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream;

There with fantastic garlands did she come

Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples

That liberal shepherds give a grosser name,

But our cold maids do dead men’s fingers call them:

There, on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds

Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke;

When down her weedy trophies and herself

Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide;

And, mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up:

Which time she chanted snatches of old tunes;

As one incapable of her own distress,

Or like a creature native and indued

Unto that element: but long it could not be

Till that her garments, heavy with their drink,

Pull’d the poor wretch from her melodious lay

To muddy death.

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Eyes

11 Tuesday Oct 2016

Posted by Betty Zhang in Notes

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art, flowers, love, Notes, painting, poem, poetry, writer, writing

Blue hydrangeas tumblr.jpgEyes like dewy hydrangeas.

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Chopin & the little death

30 Friday Sep 2016

Posted by Betty Zhang in Beauty

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art, Beauty, chopin, film, literature, music, prose, writer, writing

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I find Chopin’s music incredibly soothing, gentle, and elegant. And in all that which is the aforementioned, there is Grace and Beauty. Grace and Beauty are capitalised here in allusion to the old poetic tradition, where vital intangible things like Death and Spirt are given the capital treatment.

And speaking of Death, I happen to live for la petit mort, Continue reading →

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Happy 120th birthday, F. Scott Fitzgerald

24 Saturday Sep 2016

Posted by Betty Zhang in Uncategorized

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art, artist, f scott fitzgerald, illustration, literature, love, poetry, prose, writer, writing

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Decided to celebrate my favourite writer’s big day with a hand-drawn portrait. Celebrate with me by reading my love letter to him, or my musings on how John Keats’ Romantic poetry impacted his prose style. And don’t forget to have some gin & tonic!

Coloured pencil on pastel paper. More art can be found on my Instagram @artbybettyboo.

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