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"Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity. I don't see a different purpose for it now."
- Dorothea Tanning
A unique Star Wars tribute poster created in 1978.
It's from Poland and was made by Michal Ksiazek.
“It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot
Illustration: Death of Nastasiya Philippovna (heroine of Dostoevsky's 1869 novel The Idiot) - by Ilya Glazunov
“I love mankind...but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
Imaginary portrait of Ivan Karamazov by Ilya Glazunov
Its sometimes a shame to have mysterious demons explained away. So, the night-mare and succubus in "The Nightmare" by Henry Fuseli (1790) - are now understood to be exmaples of "Sleep paralysis" or "atonia". An estimated 75% of sleep paralysis episodes involve hallucinations.
Apocalandscapes for a Monday.
This genre of art is now posted as 'wallpapers' online. A genre so popular that it's almost impossible to discover who the talented concept artists behind them are.
If anyone can credit them, please do so in comments.
Thought for the day:
We often represent depression as wet, sluggish, slow - seeping like water. We drown in it.
But depression can also become virulent, aggressive, fiery. It burns us up.
Images:
Edvard Munch.
José Clemente Orozco.
Thought for the day:
Don't jump ship to another that is in the same becalmed waters.
image. Ange-Joseph-Antoine Roux (1765–1835)
Leda and the Swan. The Australian artist Sydney Nolan is famed for his "Ned Kelly Gang' paintings. But from 1958-1961, he painted a subtle series of images inspired by the Greek Myth in which Zeus, taking the form of a swan, seduces princess Leda.
@ClockworkCosmos @opancaro Another great image of lost bureaucrats by Peter Martensen.