the hungry eye

[artnouveaustyle]

Snail Salon by Carlo Bugatti

[magictransistor]

Kurt Seligmann. The Witches. 1950.

[surrealism]

Double Exposure by Art Green, 1969. Oil on canvas, 36 x 24 inches.

[lionofchaeronea]

The Sorceress Circe, Dosso Dossi, ca. 1507

[sugarmeows]

Lauren Street, Charleston (1951) – Thomas Adrian Fransioli (American, 1906–97)

[thunderstruck9]

Juan O'Gorman (Mexican, 1905-1982), Proceso de transformación de la materia en energía (Ensayo 1), 1966. Oil and tempera on panel, 10 x 11 in.

[alfiusdebux]

[the-hungry-eye]

Félix Vallotton. La paresse          

[thunderstruck9]

Marianne Von Werefkin (Russian-Swiss, 1870-1938), Phantastische Nacht, 1917. Tempera on paper laid down on board, 79 x 57.4 cm.

[cavinmorrisgallery]

Jerry Wagner Untitled Mixed media 8.5 x 6.5 inches 21.6 x 16.5 cm JWa 126

[inneroptics]

Linda Butler,

[gregory-lejeune]

Marie-Madeleine (détail), Carlo Crivelli, 1480.

Photo: https://www.flickr.com/photos/mazanto/

[atomic-flash]

Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari) - Artist: Atelier Ledl Bernhard.

A 1920 German silent horror film, directed by Robert Wiene and written by Hans Janowitz and Carl Mayer. Considered the quintessential work of German Expressionist cinema, it tells the story of an insane hypnotist (Werner Krauss) who uses a somnambulist (Conrad Veidt) to commit murders.

[inneroptics]

Veruschka - Holger Trülzsch

[animus-inviolabilis]

Illuminated Leaf

Iran

16th Century (via https://www.flickr.com/photos/125761528@N06/15350413157/ and The Metropolitan Museum)

Poem by Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī

My heart is like an oyster shell, the Beloved’s phantom is the pearl; now I am no more contained, for this house is filled with Him.

Night split the lip of my soul with the sweetness of His talk; I am surprised at him who says, “Truth is bitter.”

Mortals’ food comes from without, but the lover’s food is from within; he regurgitates and chews, for the lover is like a camel.

Be swift-faring like a peri, denude yourself of your body; nakedness is not allowed to him who has the mange.

Salah al-Din has come to the chase; all the lions are his quarry; that man is his servant who is free from the two worlds.

[kundstphoto]

Henri Matisse, Nice, France, 1948

[mudwerks]

(by alittleblackegg)

Back cover of Fantastic Stories, Fall 1952. Illustration by George Tooker.

[lawrenceleemagnuson]

Charles Ephraim Burchfield (1893-1967) Early Spring (1917) watercolor and gouache on joined paper 52.1 x 72.4 cm