la beauté convulsive

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fish gentleman (Brian Despain)

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Max Beckmann, Prunier (1944)

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Audrey Smith

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MALENA MAZZA

[casabenlor]

Jane Crowther - Black Cat

[ahomeforbirds]

Dgon khang meditation chamber with dead animals and shrunken human heads. Tibet, 1920

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Mike Worrall

[v3l3nomortale]

Franz von Stuck (1863-1928)

Die Sinnlichkeit (Sensuality)

circa 1891

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KNOW THYSELF

Inscription on a Roman mosaic from excavations in the Appian way, Rome,

The Greek motto Know Thyself (“γνῶθι σεαυτόν”, or nosce te ipsum in Latin) combines with the image to convey the famous warning:

Respice post te; hominem te esse memento; memento mori (Look behind; remember that you are mortal; remember death)

[seabois]

Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.

William S. Burroughs (via loveage-moondream)

[kateoplis]

Guillermo del Toro's gorgeous sketchbook, Cabinet of Curiosities, is available for gifting now.

Also, if you’ve never watched his films w/his commentary, you’re missing out on a panoply of mischievousness. 

[hiperboreo]

[foto-jennic]

Melancolia (1910) Charles Corbet

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[ecnef]

Artist is lindseykutusch.com : http://www.lindseykustusch.com/all-work.html

[rougemanteau]

Alonso Sánchez Coello, A lady with a fan,1570-1573

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Norman Leto