Jacques Cancaret ~ Nu Aux Colliers

Jacques Cancaret, Nu Aux Colliers


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Thursday | 15 December 2022 | 11:55 AM

Damià Campeny ~ The Dying Lucretia

Damià Campeny , The Dying Lucretia , 1834


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Thursday | 15 December 2022 | 11:02 AM

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.


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Saturday | 10 December 2022 | 06:16 PM

Edvard Munch ~ Kneeling Female Nude

Edvard Munch , Kneeling Female Nude, 1919


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Saturday | 10 December 2022 | 06:11 PM

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


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Monday | 5 December 2022 | 11:34 AM

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.


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Friday | 2 December 2022 | 04:06 PM

Jane's Addiction, Jane Says


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Friday | 2 December 2022 | 02:51 PM

Companion piece

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


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Friday | 25 November 2022 | 01:04 PM

Roberto Ferri ~ Mater Matuta

Roberto Ferri, Mater Matuta, 2020


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Friday | 25 November 2022 | 10:39 AM

Franz von Bayros ~ Tribute to Salome

Franz von Bayros, Tribute to Salome, 1921


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Thursday | 24 November 2022 | 10:48 AM

Companion piece

Ramon Casas ~ Ramon Casas and Pere Romeu in an Automobile

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


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Thursday | 24 November 2022 | 10:43 AM

Cramps, Goo Goo Muck


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Thursday | 24 November 2022 | 10:08 AM

Johannes van Doetecum ~ Fantastic Sea Carriage

Johannes van Doetecum , Fantastic Sea Carriage , 1556


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Wednesday | 23 November 2022 | 11:48 PM

Drawing

Johfra Bosschart ~ Witches' Sabbath

Final painting

Johfra Bosschart ~ Witches' Sabbath

Johfra Bosschart , Witches' Sabbath , 1972


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Sunday | 20 November 2022 | 11:42 AM

Achille Delmaet ~ La Goulue

Achille Delmaet, La Goulue, 1890


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Thursday | 17 November 2022 | 10:14 AM

Companion piece

Gustave Doré ~ The Acrobats

Gustave Doré, The Acrobats, 1874


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Wednesday | 16 November 2022 | 11:56 AM

Eleven Poems taken from the Archangelical by Georges Bataille

My madness and my fear 
have wide dead eyes
and the steady gaze of fever

what looks in these eyes 
is the nothingness of the universe
my eyes are blind skies

in my impenetrable night
the impossible cries out
everything crumbles

Almanac of inky lye
immortality of hairy poet
poetry cemetery of obesity

farewell lewd washerwomen
farewell sweet dead dressed up like naked women

farewell lies farewell sleep

infinite itching if ants
sorting papers moustaches in dust
wagonloads of fever

columns of mad rain
clapping the soiled shrouds
funereal immodesty of human bones

there's a crowd piling up cans of maybe
a genderme in a shirt on top of a roof
waves a scythe the Demon

I lose you in the wind
I count you among the dead
a vital cord 
between heart and wind

I have nothing to do in this world 
except burn
I love you unto death

Your restlessness
a mad wind whistles in your head
you are sick from laughing
you flee me for a bitter void
tearing your heart apart

tear me apart if you like
my fever-burned eyes
find you in the night

I am cold in the heart I tremble
from the depths of my pain I call to you
with inhuman cry
as if I were giving birth

you strangle my like death
I know this miserably
I only find you in the throes of death
you are as beautiful as death

all words strangle me

star pierce the sky
scream like death 
strangle

I don't want life
It is sweet to be strangled
the rising star
is as cold as a dead woman

blindfold my eyes
I love the night
my heart is black

push me into the night
all is false 
I suffer

the world smells like death
birds fly blindly
you are as dark as a black sky

a feast will commence
 in mud and fear

stars will fall 
when death comes near

you are the horror of night
my love for you is like a cry of death
you are weak like death

my love for  you is like delerium
you know my head dies
you are the immensity the fear

you are beautiful like murder
my heart expands enormously I choke
your belly is naked like the night

You lead me straight to the end
the throes of death have begun
I nothing more to tell you
I speak to you from the dead
and the dead are silent.


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Wednesday | 16 November 2022 | 11:36 AM

Marian Wawrzeniecki ~ Old truth lies in books

Marian Wawrzeniecki , Old truth lies in books , 1910


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Sunday | 13 November 2022 | 12:01 PM

Gaston Lachaise ~ Torso

Gaston Lachaise , Torso , 1928


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Sunday | 13 November 2022 | 11:33 AM

Guillaume Geefs  ~ The Genius of Evil

Guillaume Geefs , The Genius of Evil , 1848


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Sunday | 13 November 2022 | 11:29 AM

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