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Self Portrait as an Owl by Alberto Savinio · 1936 ·
Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin

#OwlishMonday

I came across this drawing by François Baranger for 'La Belle et La Bête' / Beauty and the Beast a few weeks ago and fell in love with them...
#FairyTaleTuesday 🍃🐾❄️

"On many occasions the curious atmospheric effects enchanted me vastly; these including a strikingly vivid mirage—the first I had ever seen—in which distant bergs became the battlements of unimaginable cosmic castles." At the Mountains of Madness (1/2)
#FaustianFriday

@RealSardonicus I wish I'd grown up with this one rather than this...

Owls featured a lot in the work of Inuit artist Kenojuak Ashevak.
When asked what owls meant or represented to her she stated 'that the owl did not have any particular significance for her, but that every time she sat down to draw, an owl always seemed to come' #OwlishMonday 1/2

Teiresias foretells the future to Oddysseus [painting by Johann Heinrich Füssli/ John Henry Fuseli, c. 1780–85]
vs the Blind Seer's prophecy in 'O Brother, Where Art Thou?' by Joel and Ethan Coen, 2000
#FaustianFriday

“I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.” – Jules Verne
#InternationalCatDay
🎨Zwei Katzen/ Two Cats, Franz Marc, 1913

@DirkPuehl Albrecht Dürer, creator of the famous Owl-Hare image...
Well, but then, maybe not...

The Giantess (The Guardian of the Egg) by Leonora Carrington, created in ca. 1947 in Mexico City

There is so much going on in this painting, this is one of my favourites by Carrington

Two mermaids (Havfruen) by Danish painter Elisabeth Jerichau Baumann from 1863 and 1873
The Examiner apparently described the mermaid's face on the left as 'dark with the grief of womanhood made monstrous and cast adrift from all sypathies by which a woman lives'
#FaustianFriday