The Lunatic Fringe 🧶💚🤍💜

It's all very abstract until you look at one. Just one. And imagine what she's going through after 7 years in this cage. This is why we had to break them out.

Summer Holiday. Artist: Olga Suvorova (Russian, b. 1966, St. Petersburg), 2015. Private collection. Medium: Oil on canvas. Suvorova was born in Leningrad in 1966 into a multi-generational family of painters. Her father, Igor Suvorov, holds the state-awarded title of "Honored Artist of the RSFSR." Suvorova studied painting and monumental composition in the studio of the renowned academician Andrei Mylnikov at the Repin Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg, graduating in 1998. The influences she's focused on most throughout her career include Gustav Klimt's decorative surfaces, Piero della Francesca's volumetric serenity, and the color palette of Byzantine iconography. While these three sources might seem completely different, they're the foundation of the balance in Suvorova's paintings: her figures are both realistic and decorative, and her scenes are both historical and contemporary. Suvorova's work quickly gained recognition in St. Petersburg. She held a solo exhibition at the Repin Academy in 1990 and won first prize in the Russian Union of Artists' annual competition in 1993. Today, her pieces are in private collections across the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany, China, and Russia. Finally, I'd like to draw your attention to a specific detail in the artwork. From the Renaissance onward, and especially in 17th-century Dutch still lifes, a caged bird usually represents a trapped soul, lost freedom, or lost innocence. The cat is the hunter; it symbolizes death at the door, sin, or the inevitable end. In this painting, Suvorova takes this heavy "death-freedom" burden and distills it into a calm, ordinary summer afternoon.

'Blooming Boughs" Original Oil Painting by Erin Hanson #WomensArt

An early Doors Masterpiece!

HRT literally makes us biologically female

@BladeoftheS 👀

Zack Polanski. Your next Prime Minister.

Baccara - Yes Sir, I Can Boogie #70s

@heraldscotland Good riddance to bad rubbish.

An emotional Nicola Sturgeon makes her final contribution in Holyrood. The former FM is stepping away after 27 years. "For the sake of the children who rely on us to look after them ... to those who will occupy these benches in a few weeks time, keep the promise."

What a way to end what turned out be a rather gorgeous Spring day here in Glasgow! This was the view down the Clyde from the Squinty Bridge at sunset this evening. #glasgow #glasgowtoday #sunset #spring #reflection

Reflections on the Forth. A 4 minute long exposure of the Forth Bridge.

A ghostly yet mesmerizing image from 1900.

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Stonehaven Harbour, Aberdeenshire Scotland Art Nouveau Painting Art Print

@Wakethefitup 👀

This guy speaks so much sense and he genuinely wants to help YOU, he's not at the whim of cronies & donors. Clearly the Tabloids will try and destroy him before the next general election...but don't believe their tripe, believe the GREEN hype...'cos it's on...it's genuinely ON!

@agcolehamilton Are you still doing it for that bloke Beth?

Liberal Democrats are on a roll in Scotland, and with our fresh batch of new candidates we are on the rise. In May you have a choice between the same stale old crumbs from the SNP, or the ingredients for change with fairness at its heart with the Liberal Democrats.

This song was written in 20 minutes of pure rage after hearing how a senator got his son out of the draft for Vietnam...

A relatively stripped-back Art Deco style bank building on Hyndland Road in the West End of Glasgow. Built in 1934, it was created by James Mclachlan. Cont./ #glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #hyndland #artdeco

“I Will Follow” - U2

EARTH, WIND & FIRE BOOGIE WONDERLAND (1979)