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