English Literature Academia Aesthetic Appreciation Post.

Breath of French Air

“Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.” — Oscar Wilde

Shakespeare & Co.

Crystal chandeliers, champagne bubbles, marble floors, first class, limousines, the glint of perfectly cut jewels, brand names printed on shopping bags, walk in wardrobes, city lights, silk bedsheets.

Glamorous - Fergie Material Girl - Madonna Diamonds Are A Girls Best Friend - Marilyn Monroe Primadonna - Marina And The Diamonds Royals - Lorde That’s What I Like - Bruno Mars Beautiful Dirty Rich - Lady Gaga Buy Me Diamonds - Bea Miller Gucci Gucci - Neon Hitch Uptown Girl - Billy Joel This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things - Taylor Swift But I Am A Good Girl - Christina Aguilera Super Rich Kids - Frank Ocean Old Money - Lana Del Rey

Art References in Hannibal.

• False Mirror - S1Ep4 "Oeuf"

• The Triumph of Justice - S2Ep3 "Hassun"

• Memory - S1Ep1 "Aperitif"

• Almond Blossoms - S2Ep6 "Futamono"

• Nu de dos - S3Ep1 "Antipasto"

• The Kiss - S3Ep4 ''Apertivo"

• The Angle of Death - S2Ep1 "Kaiseki"

• The Young Martyr - S2Ep13 "Mizumono"

• The Great Dragon and the Women clothed in the Sun - S3Ep8 "The Great Red Dragon"

• The Great Dragon and the Women clothed with the Sun - S3Ep10 "And the Women clothed in Sun''

Credits - Cinema.Unchained

art & symbolism: women dressed in pink

seduction, tenderness, femininity, youth, sweetness

The human body is an instrument for the production of art in the life of the human soul.

- Alfred North Whitehead

Hull City Hall, UK by John Halliday

tired eyes and ink stained hands trail across the pages, as the rain-swept buildings nestle underneath the gloomy skies, and the poems of beaudelaire pour from my heart.

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