Collected Inspirations

I'm a visual artist and art director. This is where I keep some of my inspirations, grouped by color. Moments, motion, stillness, violence, beauty, the delicate, organic, the crude, the strange, the delightful, the surreal and profane. My art website: www.mariamzakarian.com

[nemfrog]

The serpent consuming its tail, crowned with flame. Frontispiece by Melchior Lechter for Stefan George's, Der siebente Ring. The Seventh Ring. Berlin, 1907.

Internet Archive

[siren-central]

“Deep down, I think I like to be looked at. Quite simply.“

- Isabelle Huppet, Financial Times, September 2021

[ex0skeletal-undead]

arb by DustyRayPaints

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[primordialfather]

Eliran Kantor - Details From: CONVALESCENCE

[robsheridan]

Some shots of my recent production design work for the Nine Inch Nails 2014 Europe/UK tour. More photos at NIN’s Tumblr.

Art direction by Rob Sheridan. Lighting design by Paul Guthrie. Video content by Rob Sheridan and Moment Factory.

[thefugitivesaint]

Erté (Romain de Tirtoff) (1892-1990), 'Lucrèce Borgia', 1926

[milksockets]

'the trapeze' in erté at ninety-five: the complete new graphics (the extended edition) - marshall lee + erté (1988)

[blondebrainpowered]

Harper's Bazar, December, 1926

Illustrated by Erté

[tomoleary]

Erté (Romain de Tirtoff, 1892–1990) “La dionée dite Gobe-mouches (1917) Source

[victusinveritas]

The Aces Series by Romain de Tirtoff aka Erté

[bobbole]

Erté, Le poker

[sacredandprofaneajourney]

In remembrance, never forget those who fought for peace, the irony of it all.

Mary Delany, paper mosaik, botanical print

[collectedinspirations]

"The Slaver" from House of Tabula.

Words & Sound - Lewis Michael Bond

Images - Luiza Liz Bond

"The Slaver" discusses the human condition.

GORILLA TALES are short storytelling challenges entirely done by two artists in one week using only the resources they possess.

[miss-silverspoon]

[curatethewav]

Stanley Kubrick’s cinematic masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

[collectedinspirations]

Gazelle Twin & NYX live

[moishe-pipick]

“The serpent king watches as the sphinx oversees the burning of the city”

From Deviatya Val, 1906