not dadaistic

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Siegfried Zademack, “Achtung” (Danger)

oil on canvas, 2023

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Unknown Balinese Actor in Fanged Mask for Play Indonesia Date Unknown In Bali the spirit of the mask is said to incarnate the living flesh of the dancer. Performers trance-channel the wisdom of their culture through this art form, sometimes used to drive out evil spirits from a village.

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Maboroshi Hakurankai in Shizuoka, Japan

The kanji say “beautiful legs shrine”

[thesobsister]

Illustration from Pierre Boaistuau's Histoires Prodigieuses (Histoires prodigieuses extraictes de plusieurs fameux autheurs, grecz & latins, sacrez & prophanes) (1559), dedication copy to Queen Elizabeth I of England.

Here's how this image appeared in the non-QE version:

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Edmund Joseph Sullivan (1869–1933), “Love Looks Through the Little Window”

illustration from ‘The French Revolution: A History’ by Thomas Carlyle, 1910

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Hisao Karada, ‘Karada no hataraki [The Workings of the Human Body]’, 1925

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“Allegory of the World”

anonymous, Dutch school, c. 1590–1633

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丹下左膳余話 百萬両の壺 by kasa51, via Flickr. circa 1935, Japan

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Unknown, Histoires Prodigieuses; the Monster of Cracow Brightly colored and decorated illumination of the so-called "Monster of Cracow" 1559 Wellcome Collection

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Kiakshuk, Inuit Artist, Sea Monsters Devouring a Whale, 1961, Cape Dorset

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the Rocketeer and Betty, by Bill Sienkiewicz.

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Dong Qichang, Landscape in the style of Mi Youren’s, Mist and Rain on Summer, 17th century

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“I, too, like you, was beautiful. I died incarcerated here — You are wearing my crown and you, too, will die here”

The Dying Swan | Умирающий лебедь | 1917 | dir. Yevgeny Bauer