Something Intellectual

Not quite intellectual, but something like it.
Happiness is a good book.

Happiness is a good book.

nerdaliztix:

wow this is quite powerful

If only the older people in my life could see what I see.

(via minuiko)

Iso has a confession.

Iso has a confession.

imreallybadatthis:

detail-detail-detail:

Russian painter Ilya Repin, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

I’m surprised that the scene being depicted isn’t transcribed, so I’ll do it for ya’ll:

This painting is showing Ivan the Terrible and his son, whom he had just killed after hitting him in the head with his staff after a heated argument. It left Ivan with no successor to his throne and when he died it threw Russia into many years of turmoil. It is a very important piece of Russian history and I think this wonderful painting conveys what Ivan must have been feeling at the time.

:O

(via max-peck)