William H. Johnson , Café , 1939

Félix Labisse , Théodora , 1972

Félix Labisse , Charlotte Corday, 1946

Alone by Edgar Allan Poe

From childhood’s hour I have not been 
As others were—I have not seen 
As others saw—I could not bring 
My passions from a common spring— 
From the same source I have not taken 
My sorrow—I could not awaken 
My heart to joy at the same tone— 
And all I lov’d—I lov’d alone— 
Then—in my childhood—in the dawn 
Of a most stormy life—was drawn 
From ev’ry depth of good and ill 
The mystery which binds me still— 
From the torrent, or the fountain— 
From the red cliff of the mountain— 
From the sun that ’round me roll’d 
In its autumn tint of gold— 
From the lightning in the sky 
As it pass’d me flying by— 
From the thunder, and the storm— 
And the cloud that took the form 
(When the rest of Heaven was blue) 
Of a demon in my view—

Robert Auer , The temptation of Saint Anthony , 1917

Evgeny Sedukhin, Symphony of the sixth blast furnace , 1979

Gaston Lachaise , Nude Woman with Upraised Arms , 1923

Francisco Soria Aedo , Pepita , 1929

Jacques Cancaret, Nu Aux Colliers

Damià Campeny , The Dying Lucretia , 1834

Your eyes go sad by Fernando Pessoa

Your eyes go sad. You're not
Listening to what I say.
They doze, dream, fade out.
Not listening. I talk away.

I tell what I've told, out of listless
Sadness, so often before ...
I think you never listened,
So you're away you are.

All of a sudden, an absent
Stare, you look at me, still
Immeasurably distant,
You begin a smile.

I go on talking. You
Go on listening - your own
Thoughts you listen to,
The smile as good as gone,

Until, through the loafing
Afternoon's waste of while,
The silence self-unleafing
Of your useless smile.

Edvard Munch , Kneeling Female Nude, 1919

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, String Quartet No. 19 "Dissonance", K. 465

Salutation by Ezra Pound

O generation of the thoroughly smug
  and thoroughly uncomfortable,
I have seen fishermen picnicking in the sun,
I have seen them with untidy families,
I have seen their smiles full of teeth
  and heard ungainly laughter.
And I am happier than you are,
And they were happier than I am;
And the fish swim in the lake
  and do not even own clothing.

Jane's Addiction, Jane Says

Companion piece

Ramon Casas, Ramon Casas and Pere Romeu on a Tandem, 1897

Roberto Ferri, Mater Matuta, 2020

Franz von Bayros, Tribute to Salome, 1921

Companion piece

Ramon Casas, Ramon Casas and Pere Romeu in an Automobile, 1901

Cramps, Goo Goo Muck