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The spirituality of tribes in the north that fall under the larger banner of “Inuit” (though some, like the Yup’ik, self-identify as distinct and separate groups from the properly-named Inuit) is complex. Their traditional spiritual practices were

Image:  Jessie Oonark, c. 1906-85 (Inuit), Baker Lake, Nunavut, Canada, A Shaman’s Helping Spirits, 1971. Stone cut, stencil, 37 x 25 ¼ in. Canadian Museum of History, BL 1971-009, IMG2009-0184-0003-Dm; Public Trustee for Nunavut, Estate of Jessie Oonark. Image via 150 Years of Canadian Art – A Linked Open Data Project

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Roses (Bara Shou Kin Zu) by Itō Jakuchū (ca. 1760s)

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“Madames Electrics” at The Pit

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Two recent paintings

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Benone Strand and Magilligan Point    -    Hector McDonnell

Irish,  b. 1947-

Oil on canvas

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henry matisse

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Standing female figure with an offering, 8 cm high (3 in)

India, 1st–2nd century AD

Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Hilma Af Klint

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Perfectly Chaotic

Rites of Lilith,1945 by Mark Rothko

Devoted to themes of myth, prophecy, archaic ritual, and the unconscious mind, Rothko’s paintings of the mid-1940s are characterized by a biomorphic style stimulated by the example of the surrealists, several of whom had recently immigrated to New York from war-torn Europe. Inspired by the surrealist technique of automatic writing–letting the brush meander without conscious control in an attempt to release the creative forces of the unconscious - Rothko loosened up his technique and developed a more abstract imagery. In remarkably free watercolors of the mid-1940s, related to the art of the surrealists Joan Miro, Man Ray, as well as Max Ernst, Rothko explored the fluidity of the medium to evoke a vision of primeval life. The first appearance of large-scale canvases such as Rites of Lilith heralds another significant change in Rothko’s work. 

Rites of Lilith (1945), has a feminine, lunar quality not devoid of strangeness. The title gives us the painting’s occult meaning derived from the esoteric tradition of the Cabbala where Lilith is cast as a demonic original woman–Adam’s wife before Eve. Her femaleness is suggested through a linear style that favors the loops and arabesques of a hyper-refined sensuality. The composition’s almost amorous strokes seem to neutralize Lilith’s harmfulness.

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Dérivation

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Ana Kras

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Doris Salcedo

Untitled (Armoire), 1992

Wood furniture, steel, and cement 45 x 73 ½ x 20 in. (114.3 x 186.7 x 50.8 cm)

Untitled (Armoire) is part of a series in which Salcedo buried domestic furniture and other personal objects in cement, stripping these utilitarian pieces of their functions and turning them into humble monuments to their lost, silenced, or forgotten owners. The artist explained, “There was one widow … who told me how difficult it was to continue living with objects that are reminders of her husband… . Every day you sit at the dining table and the empty chair is there, screaming the absence of that person. It can become a very difficult object to live with. So I tried to make those objects silent, encasing them in cement.”

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Hand embroidered zodiac constellation cards created with golden yellow thread on shimmery midnight blue cardstock. Holes in the card represent the actual positions of stars surrounding the constellation.

By KotoDesigns on Etsy

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Marie-Antoinette is Dead, Rewriting History 2016 © Fabiola Jean-Louis Model: YahZarah St. James Costume Design & Construction: Fabiola Jean-Louis Props & set design: Fabiola Jean-Louis

More Info HERE.