Death and the Maiden

Death and Kitsch basically... The grotesque and the mellow and random tidbits.

[amare-habeo]

Jacques-Louis David (French, 1748 - 1825) 

Femme au turban (Sketch of the head), 1794

Black pen over pencil, 37.2 x 26.1 cm

[igormag]

Emile Chambon (1905-1993), Pygmalion, 1961.

[venusmilk]

The Grey Iris c 1923, pencil and watercolour by Charles Rennie Mackintosh

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

It is the sinking of things. And it matters. Always, always, the sinking of things.

Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry c. November 1928 featured in The Complete Works of Virginia Woolf; Selected Diaries (via violentwavesofemotion)

[istmos]

Louise Bourgeois, “Acid Rain”, circa 1984

[hoanbee]

[les-memes-histoires]

Louise Bourgeois

[neshamama]

this mannequin was made by andré masson for the 1938 international surrealist exhibition……

[amotiontoabjection]

The abject is an extremely strong feeling which is at once somatic and symbolic, and which is above all a revolt of the person against an external menace from which one wants to keep oneself at a distance, but of which one has the impression that it is not only an external menace but that it may menace us from inside. So it is a desire for separation, for becoming autonomous, and also the feeling of an impossibility of doing so—whence the element of crisis which the notion of abjection carries with it

(Kristeva in a 1980 interview, qtd. in Weiss 93)

[your-wildest-adventures]

[fleurdulys]

Day of the Dead - Carlos Schwabe

[letheane-deactivated20200121]

‘To tame or to destroy?’ ‘To destroy.’

Edna St. Vincent Millay, from ‘Huntsman, What Quarry?’  (via carnavage)

[afroui]

Sandro Botticelli

[just-art5]

Frederic Leighton, Portrait of May Sartoris, c.1860

[theheadlesswoman]

Woman of Tokyo (Yasujiro Ozu, 1933)

[medievalpoc]

1800s Week!

José Tapiró y Baró

Portrait of a Moroccan Man

Spain (1890)

Watercolor, 67.6 X 47.6 cm.

Orientalism

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[heptagram]

Nydia Lilian

[seriallier]

[fogandmoon]

Jacopo Ligozzi