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eyes in art by gerda wegener 🍂

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William Bradford - Arctic and maritime paintings of polar ice, icebergs and the North Pole. Alas… another fast vanishing world.

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James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Nocturne in Black and Gold (The Falling Rocket), 1875.

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Micao Kono (1876-1954)

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Norman Lindsay (1879-1969), The C sharp minor quartet, 1927, etching, engraving and stipple.

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Maxmilián Pirner (1854-1924), Somnambulant, 1878, oil on canvas, 157 x 87 cm. National Gallery Prague - Mysterious Art Century Instagram - Facebook - Twitter - Pinterest

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The Death of Sappho - 1881 - Miguel Carbonell

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Fritz Gärtner (1882- 1958)

Walchensee, 1918

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Guangxi, China, 1980.

Photographs by Bruno Barbey

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L’Amour fuyant Psiché - 1897 - René Lelong

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Franz Wright, from God’s Silence

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Claude Monet, Weeping Willow

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Domenico Tintoretto, The Penitent Magdalene, 1598-1602 c. (details)

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You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love.

I confuse instinct for desire — isn’t bite also touch?

because you want to die for love, you always have

Georges Bataille, Guilty / The Lovers, Akseli Gallen / Richard Siken, Wishbone / Shakespeare, Pericles / scene from Eiichi Yamamoto’s Belladonna of Sadness (1973) / Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena / Safet Zec, 1943 | Allegories of Fate / Marina Tsvetaeva, from Poem of the End: V / Carmen. Ill. Alastair. / Emily Brontë, from, “Wuthering Heights,” / Carmen. Ill. Alastair. / Natalie Diaz, Postcolonial Love Poem / Richard Siken

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Sacred Heart

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Gerda Wegener  -  Three Women Under an Umbrella,  ca. 1920 

Danish, 1886-1940 

Oil on canvas