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"Indian Dancer"
Ye Qianyu
1981
Hanging scroll, ink and color on paper
Christie's
"Remains of an Ancient Building near Firoz Shah's Cotilla"
Thomas Daniell
1795
British Library
From the blood shed from his wounds sprang thousands of fresh combatants, representing the destructive masculine principle. To annihilate this archetypal power, Kālī again and again drank the rakta-bīja ('seed-blood').
—Ajit Mookerjee
Kālī Conquers Rakta-bīja
1775-1800
Guler https://t.co/7KDEqeQh3m
The convulsions still in air reminded me of avant-garde artist Kazuo Shiraga's works which represented man's struggle against matter—he painted them using his feet. There is an intense, menacing energy that's swirling in this work.
"Zuisouhen"
1986
oil on canvas
Phillips
Bernar Venet captures the indeterminate nature of life in his squiggles on paper and then steels them up to majestic structures.
"Three Indeterminate Lines"
Mixed media on paper
1998
"Three Indeterminate Lines"
2003
Rolled steel
Weaving mythologies and fantasies, these two works evoke such mystery. Sylvia wrote this poem when she was just 25 while Rousseau painted this in his 60s.
"The Snake Charmer"
Henri Rousseau
1907
Oil on canvas
Paris, Orsay Museum
"Snake Charmer"
Sylvia Plath, 1957
Just like last year, we plan to leave our yard "ugly" by not treating fallen leaves as "waste". We have a compost enclosure but it gets filled rather quickly. It's a waste of time & energy to clear the leaves that wildlife depends on for their survival.Please consider joining us.
"Shell Beans"/ From Lost Objects Portfolio
Olivia Parker
1980
Toned gelatin silver print
Joseph Bellows
2 beautiful works set near Hockney's home, Yorkshire.
"Garrowby Hill"/"Double East Yorkshire"
David Hockney
1998
Oil on Canvas
Private Collection
@emswam @PriyaChabria I ❤️ her works - I got this book for my daughter sometime back. Everytime I open it my jaws drop at the drama she created in those images like this “Shoreline Purslane and Suriname Toad”