Max Ernst, After us motherhood , 1927

I, Too by Langston Hughes

I, too, sing America.

I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes,
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong.

Tomorrow,
I’ll be at the table
When company comes.
Nobody’ll dare
Say to me,
“Eat in the kitchen,”
Then.

Besides,
They’ll see how beautiful I am
And be ashamed—

I, too, am America.

André Masson , Goethe or the metamorphosis of plants , 1940

Jean Metzinger , Seated Woman , 1919

City by Frederick Seidel

Right now, a dog tied up in the street is barking
With the grief of being left,
A dog bereft.
Right now, a car is parking.
 
The dog emits
Petals of a barking flower and barking flakes of snow
That float upward from the street below
To where another victim sits:
 
Who listens to the whole city
And the dog honking like a car alarm,
And doesn’t mean the dog any harm,
And doesn’t feel any pity.

Pablo Picasso , Woman Crying, 1937

Raymond Depardon , Glasgow, 1980

Louis Armstrong, West End Blues

Frank Trumbauer & His Orchestra (with Bix Beiderbecke), Singin' The Blues

Big Mama Thornton, Hound Dog

Marcus Larson , Night At the Sea, 1858

James Carr, The Dark End of the Street

Ivan Aivazovsky , The Deluge, 1864

Ibrahim El-Salahi , Reborn Sounds of Childhood Dreams I , 1961-1965

Ornette Coleman, Lonely Woman

Charles Mingus, Better Git It In Your Soul

Max Ernst , Composition, 1943

Earl Bostic, Up There In Orbit

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec , Dancing at the Moulin Rouge: Moorish Dance , 1895