Chants Secrets

a collector of pictures and illusions, on the lonely road between delusion and not knowing anymore

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I irresistibly drink up with my eyes every charming man who crosses my path and I turn around in the hope that our eyes will meet again.

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Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) Lebanese born American poet and novelist, photographed by Day, F. Holland, circa 1896 and 1898

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a seated man sien from behind, artwork by Claudio Bravo

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Lapis lazuli was ground up to create a distinctive blue pigment used in paintings in Renaissance Italy. Here we see a Madonna and Child created by Giovanni Bellini in the late 1480s. Image: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Rogers Fund, 1908

From one kilogram of lapis lazuli, you could extract barely 20 to 30 grams of ultramarine. That made it extremely expensive – in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, it was even more costly than gold. As a result, it was reserved for images of saints and, in particular, for the Virgin Mary’s cloak.

Every particle of blue once slept in stone—until an artist set it free.

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A lapis lazuli bird bead talisman from the ancient Sino-Siberian or from the ancient Western Asiatic, Bactrian culture.

1st Millennium AD or older 

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Photo of Trevor Brown

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Maxime Dethomas - Portrait of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

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Maxime-Pierre Jules Dethomas (October 13, 1867 – January 21, 1929) was a French painter, draughtsman, printmaker, illustrator, and was among the best known theater-set and costume designers of his era. As an artist, Dethomas was highly regarded by his contemporaries and exhibited widely, both within France and abroad. He was a regular contributor to the Impressionistes et Symbolistes, and a founding committee member of the Salon d'Automne. In 1912, he was awarded the Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur for his contributions to French art.

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Jacques-Émile Blanche, self portrait, circa 1890.

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Jeanne Mammen (German, 1890-1976), transvestite bar, c. 1931, Watercolour and pencil

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Egon Schiele at fifteen with palette, September 1906 /

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Henry Cartier-Bresson and his Leica camera.

By George Hoyningen-Huene

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Eliseu Visconti, Self-Portrait (1898)

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“And what is an authentic madman? It is a man who preferred to become mad, in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor. So society has strangled in its asylums all those it wanted to get rid of or protect itself from, because they refused to become its accomplices in certain great nastinesses. For a madman is also a man whom society did not want to hear and whom it wanted to prevent from uttering certain intolerable truths.”

–Antonin Artaud

Photo by Man Ray

source: Memphis Muse

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“Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”

― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

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Rare photograph of Marilyn Monroe without makeup, 1955

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Lucian Freud by Cecil Beaton, 1956.

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Jean COCTEAU surligne les traits de son visage et envoie son amitié. 1933.

« Il est triste de jouer à la petite mort et la grande arrive sans être vue. »

"It's sad to play at the little death, and the big one arrives unseen."