Pablo Picasso, The beach in Garoupe, 1955

André Masson , The Metamorphosis of the Lovers , 1938

Sonic Youth, Superstar

Carl Blechen , Stormy sea with Lighthouse , 1826

Studio of Tsukioka Yoshitoshi , Master Sculptor Hidari Jingoro from Brocade Pictures for Moral Education , 1883

Leonor Fini , The Ends of the world , 1948

Hans Bellmer, The Doll , 1936, reconstructed 1965

Käthe Kollwitz , The Carmagnole (Dance Around the Guillotine) , 1901

John Constable, Rainstorm over the Sea , 1828

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