Max Ernst, Mattamathics , 1948

I Stood Upon a High Place by Stephen Crane

I stood upon a high place,
And saw, below, many devils
Running, leaping,
and carousing in sin.
One looked up, grinning,
And said, "Comrade! Brother!"

Hans Hassenteufel , Oriental Nude , 1930s

Winslow Homer, Moonlight, 1874

Kobayashi Eitaku, Twelve Erotic Scenes with Domesticated and Wild Animals and Creatures Endowed with Supernatural Powers, mid/late 19th century

Max Pietschmann, The Fish Catch of Polyphemus, 1892

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Pietro da Cortona , Allegory of Divine Providence and Barberini Power, Fresco in the Barberini Palace in Rome , 1633-1639

Francis Bacon , Blood on the Floor , 1986

Max Ernst , Ci meurent les cardinaux , 1962

Serafino Macchiati , Paul Verlaine, Bibi-la-Purée et Stéphane Mallarmé au café Procope , 1890

Death by William Butler Yeats 

NOR dread nor hope attend
A dying animal;
A man awaits his end
Dreading and hoping all;
Many times he died,
Many times rose again.
A great man in his pride
Confronting murderous men
Casts derision upon
Supersession of breath;
He knows death to the bone —
Man has created death.

Serafino Macchiati , Two Women on the Sofa or Morfinomani (morphine addict) , 1905

Harry Callahan , The Lonely Road

Wilhelm Freddie , Psycho-Photographic Phenomenon - The Fallen of the World War2, 1936

Carrie Ann Baade , Light and Shadow , 2022

Carrie Ann Baade , Hellmouth, 2017

Ed van der Elsken , Chess players, Paris 1950–1954

Oleh Sokolov, Magnetic Storm , 1966

Chaïm Soutine , Dead Fowl , 1926

Marie Bashkirtseff , The Umbrella , 1883