Kali....Bangal School... early 20th c

Dolorosa de la Cruz ... Works in progress no2, watercolour, gouache andpencil 2015

Heinrich Lutz ... She emeciates Him! ...18th May 1918

Heinrich Lutz ~ She emeciates Him! 18th May 1918

From The Prinzhorn Collection currently being exhibited at Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg, Berlin

Dolorosa de la Cruz... Evoking Lunar Paths, February 2015

Dolorosa de la Cruz ~ Evoking Lunar Paths (to Georg Trakl), goauche and pencil, February 2015

Born today... Georg Trakl ,February 3, 1887, Salzburg, Austria, Self portrait & poems

Mourning 

The dark eagles, sleep and death, 

Rustle all night around my head: 

The golden statue of man 

Is swallowed by the icy comber 

Of eternity. On the frightening reef 

The purple remains go to pieces, 

And the dark voice mourns 

Over the sea. 

Sister in my wild despair 

Look, a precarious skiff is sinking 

Under the stars, 

The face of night whose voice is fading.

Georg Trakl, self portrait, 1913

Whispered In The Afternoon

Feebly glints the sun's thin ray,

From the tree the ripe fruit falleth,

In the deep blue distance dwelleth

Silence--'tis an endless day.

Sharp a shot the stillness cleaves,

Prone to earth its victim bringing.

Harsh refrain of brown girls singing

Dies amid the fall of leaves.

Dream-wings o'er God's forehead play,

And He thinketh but in color.

Shadows round the hill grow duller,

Bordered by a dim decay.

Twilight, drunken with repose;

Sad guitar-notes trickle faintly.

Back unto his lamplight saintly

In a dream the wanderer goes.

Song of the Departed

To Karl Borromaeus Heinrich

The flight of birds is full of harmonies. At evening

The green forests have gathered to more silent huts;

The crystal meadows of the doe.

A dark shape calms the ripple of the brook, the damp shadows,

And the flowers of summer which ring beautifully in the wind. 

Already the brow of the pondering man grows dark. 

And goodness, a small lamp, shines in his heart 

And the peace of the meal; because bread and wine are sanctified 

By God's hands, and out of nocturnal eyes 

The brother silently gazes at you, so that he rests from thorny wanderings. 

O the dwelling in the soulful blueness of night. 

The silence in the room also lovingly embraces the shadows of ancestors, 

The purple martyrs, lament of a mighty race 

That now dies piously in the lonely grandchild. 

Because from black minutes of insanity the long-sufferer 

Always awakens more radiant at the petrified threshold 

And the cool blueness embraces him enormously and the bright decline of autumn, 

The still house and the telling of the forest, 

Measure and law and the lunar paths of the departed.

Springtime of the Soul

Outcry in sleep; through black alleys the wind falls,

The blue of spring beckons through breaking branches,

Purple night-dew and stars extinguish all around.

Greenish the river dawns, silverly the old avenues

And the towers of the city. O gentle drunkenness

In the gliding boat and the dark calls of the blackbird

In innocent gardens. Already, the rosy veil thins.

Solemnly the waters murmur. O the moist shadows of the floodplain,

The striding animal; greening shapes, flowering branches

Touch the crystal forehead; shimmering boat-sway.

Quietly the sun sounds in the rose-colored clouds by the hill.

Great is the stillness of the fir forest, the earnest shadows at the river.

Purity! Purity! Where are the terrible paths of death,

Of gray stony silence, the rocks of night

And the peaceless shadows? Abyss radiant with sun.

Sister, when I found you at the lonely clearing

In the forest, it was midday and the silence of the animal great;

Whiteness under wild oak, and the thorn bloomed silver.

Enormous dying and the singing flame in the heart.

Darker the waters flow around the beautiful play of fishes.

Hour of mourning, silent vision of the sun;

The soul is a strange shape on earth. Spiritually blueness

Dusks over the pruned forest; and a dark bell rings

Long in the village; peaceful escort.

Silently the myrtle blooms over the white eyelids of the dead.

Softly the waters whisper in the subsiding afternoon

And the wilderness on the bank greens more darkly; joy in the rosy wind;

The brother's gentle song by the evening hill.

Toyen (1902-1980)... At the Mercy of Their Gaze, 1957

Toyen ~ At the Mercy of Their Gaze, oil on canvas 1957

Ithell Colquhoun (1906-1988)... Imbolc... Feb 2 1972

Born today...Hugo von Hofmannsthal February 1, 1874, Landstraße, Vienna, Austria

Creatures of Flame

We are all creatures of flame. The butterfly: the intensity of a short life and fragility

become color. My death is like shadow, my life aquiver, a pulse in the light; I am so 

close to death it makes me proud, cruel and demonic.

Unmoved, I flutter from Helen's lips to Adonis' wound. 

I love my death, the flame, more than anything.

Creature of the Flood

Poem of the Mussels

We are alone in the dark. You up there have lips, rolled-up leaves, hands entwined with rosy blood and bluish veins, we are alone and cannot touch. We live our life fully, our fate is to resist the waves, that is what we become, and triumph and pain color us as the reflection of fall and of the sun colors the waves there near the surface.

Dorothea Tanning... Sequestrians, oil on canvas 1976-83

Dorothea Tanning... Self portrait, oil on canvas 19444

Dolorosa de la Cruz... works in progress no1 2015

Works in progress no 1, watercolour and gouache 2015

Paul Holman... Tara Morgana, excerpt, 2014

from Tara Morgana by Paul Holman published by Scarlet Imprint and illustrated by the photography of Paul Lambert

Rikki Ducornet ...poem and watercolour & gouache ... 1989

The lunatic algebra

of Love.

The frenzied orbits

of Mood.

The malarial temperatures

of Wound.

Symbols of the Cult

of Seizure:

This flesh, this amulet

incised.

This hot spoor

of predators.

This zodiac savaged

in the sky.

The Cult of Seizure 1989

Born today...André Masson ... Être et le néant (Being and Nothingness), indian ink drawing, 1941

Grace Pailthorpe...Ancestors II ...1935

Frida Kahlo... El Verdadero vacilón (The True Vacillator).. circa 1946-47

Born Today... Austin Osman Spare , December 30, 1886, London, United Kingdom

"My desires sprang forth as a mighty sun - all embracing - associating in the form - vortex, to enjoy ALL consciousnes"
AOS 

Dolorosa de la Cruz... Dare Twins for the full mooon ...

Dare Twins ~ pastel and pencil on paper Dec 2014

Ithell Colquhoun... Gorgon... 1946

Ithell Colquhoun ... A Visitation... 1944

Diego Rivera ... La noche de los rábanos... 1946

Born today... René Magritte, November 21, 1898, Lessines, Belgium

Studies for the beyond, ca 1938 Pencil on Paper

Frédéric Bruly Bouabré ... from the series Mythological Beast... 1948

In the 1970s, Frédéric Bruly Bouabré started to transfer his thoughts to hundreds of small drawings in postcard format, using a ballpoint pen and colour crayons. These drawings, gathered under the title of Connaissance du Monde (Knowledge of the World), form an encyclopedia of universal knowledge and experience. Other projects, such as Readings from Signs Observed in Oranges (1988), serve as visionary records of divination. For Bouabré, his drawings are representation of everything that is revealed or concealed—signs, divine thoughts, dreams, myths, the sciences, traditions—and he views his role as an artist as a redemptive calling. He has stated: “Now that we are recognized as artists, our duty is to organize into a society, and in such a way to create a framework for discussion and exchange among those who acquire and those who create. From that could arise a felicitous world civilisation.”

“the heavens opened up before my eyes and seven colorful suns described a circle of beauty around their Mother-Sun, I became Cheik Nadro: ‘He who does not forget.’”

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Venus of Syria ... Hellenistic Period... ca. 2nd/1st century BC.

Val Denham ...Venus finds her arms... pencil and watercolour 1997

The Goddess Chinnamasta... Pahari, Mankot c 1750

Alastair (Hans Henning Voight)...watercolour drawing 1929

an illustration for the Black Sun Press edition of Les Liasons Dangereuses c.1929

Yayoi Kusama... Face no 5... 1953

gouache, Chinese ink and pastel on paper

Victor Brauner...Anthropomorphic Mimicry of the collective consciousness 1961

oil, wax, wood and bark on panel

Toyen (MARIE ČERMÍNOVÁ) 1902-1980.... Portrait of Andre Breton ... 1950

signed and dedicated à andré Breton / Toyen / 18 II 1950 

crayon, charcoal, oil and glitter on linen, held by two wood batons as a scroll

John Balance (Coil) ... Drawings from Bright Lights and Cats With No Mouths ~ The Art of John Balance Collected

The first ever extensive overview of art (drawings, paintings and sketches) created by John Balance.

The artworks featured in the book are both finished elaborate hallucinatory pieces as well as quick sketches with a good sprinkling of Balance’s often underestimated humour. 

Homages to idols and inspirations next to idiosyncratic magical dreamscapes

executed in a wide variety of styles and mediums

Compiled by Liam Thomas and Thighpaulsandra - with text by

Val Denham and Jeremy Reed.

The Art of John Balance Collected 

Rufino Tamayo... Venus Noire, Colour Lithograph 1969

Margaret Burroughs (1917-2010) ~ Black Venus ~ 1957

Bernd Streiter ... for Georg Trakl, with Black Angel drypoint 1989

Bernd Streiter

Cecil Collins (1908-1989)... Angels Dancing around the Sun and Moon 1950

Angels Dancing around the Sun and Moon

Hilma AF Klint ~ Mother and Child, watercolour 1931

Dolorosa De La Cruz... new drawings in upcoming issue of Anathema Pillars Journal: PILLARS .III. “The Ebon Kteis”

Three art works of mine are featured in the upcoming Anathema Pillars Journal: PILLARS .III. “The Ebon Kteis”

PRE-ORDERS for PILLARS .III. “The Ebon Kteis” are now opened!

http://www.freewebstore.org/ANATHEMApublishing/-PILLARS_III_e2809cThe_Ebon_Kteise2809d_e280a2_PRE-ORDER!/p1525717_13070646.aspx

'The Ebon Kteis' delves into the subtle beauty that lies at the threshold of Eros & Thanatos, and what has oft' been referred to as “la petite mort”: the strange connection that exists between orgasm, the loss of the senses and the ultimate release of Death; both Symbolic having a real strong bond to one another.

The subject is exploited from various angles; within witchcraft, tantrism, the necromantic arts, romanticism, et cetera (of course always leaving much interpretative power to the contributors). - Also pertaining to this Issue will be a huge emphasis on the many ways to go about the Sabbatical Rites of Soul-Flight and Congress, whether with fellow brethren or by means of Self-Initiation.

Detail of La Del SoL ~ Dolorosa , pastel on paper 2014

George Russell AE (1867-1935) ~ Aeons as yet Unrolled

Born Today ... Rosaleen Miriam "Roie" Norton, October 2, 1917, Dunedin, New Zealand

image: The Hag , watercolour

...My home is the house of winds,

With great songs of Space ringing wild in my ears

Whose shouting heart leaps to their tune.

I mock at the shapes, plodding thickly, through lamplight:

stupid and cruel - or kind -

They are alien, Other, I'm touched with uneasiness...

Fear of these human.... and glide away sidelong:

Yet joying in fear, in my stealthy aloofness,

To know they are They and I'm I.

Towers of old cities are spiralling over me, Night-conjured,

rising from Time

And I hear, through the seething of luminous silence -

Secretive, vibrant, the sound of the Solitude -

Calling of others like me

Quietly they come, flitting softly as secrets; light-footed,

velvety, swift...

With eyes gleaming green, lambent flame of the Opal.

Kindred... we signal our quick recognition.

I am I ... but I know we are we

Panther of silence; god of Night; Lord of the wild inhuman

stars:

You are my own; teeming soul of solitude.

Here is no loneliness, secret Master -

You, Dark Spirit are with me. RN

Alice Rahon (1904-1987) - drawings for costumes 1946

    

Costumes for her production of Orion~ el gran hombre del cielo, it was never produced in her lifetime.

It was later revived in 2009 for a retrospective of Rahon's work at the Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico.

Dolorosa de la Cruz ~ Portrait of Unica Zürn ~ Pencil on Paper 2014

Dolorosa de la Cruz ~ Portrait of Unica Zürn ~ Pencil on Paper 2014