Thursday, August 4, 2011
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Jónas Sen...The Red and Black Twins...2011
© Jónas Sen 2011
"If red and black are the two aspects of the darkness in which creativity
has its roots, then perhaps, they can be understood as representing the twin
aspects of artistic genius, the passive and the active. Both are needed to create art."
...
"The successful invocation of the Twins is thus an opening of the gate to the dark, to the source of endless creativity that is pure magic."
Jónas Sen ~ from The Red and Black Twins in
ATUA - Voices from La Societe Voudon Gnostique (Fulgur 2011)
Saturday, July 30, 2011
Oskar Kokoschka... The Dreaming youths... 1907/08
click on image to enlarge
Renowned as an Expressionist painter, the Austrian artist Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980) began his career in the decorative arts, studying book illustration, printmaking and typography alongside life drawing at Vienna’s School of Applied Arts between 1904 and 1908. The Dreaming Youths, begun in November 1907 and printed the following June, was Kokoschka’s first major graphic series, produced at the age of 21 while he was still a student. It started as a commission for a children’s picture-book, but Kokoschka set aside his brief after the first illustration, adding verses to create a complex ‘picture-poem’ exploring the desires and anxieties of adolescent sexuality. He described it as ‘a kind of record, in words and pictures, of my own state of mind at the time’, in particular of his love for Lilith Lang, the sister of a fellow student, who appears with him in the final image, The Girl Li and I. He wrote later that ‘the book was my first love-letter’, although his relationship with Lilith had ended by the time it appeared.
The Dreaming Youths was one of Kokoschka’s most significant early statements, and the frank, erotic metaphor and personal mythology introduced here would become central to his later artistic productions, both visual and literary.
Toyen (Marie Cerminova) ... Erotica & essay...
"Toyen's entire oeuvre aims at nothing less than the correction of the exterior world in terms of a desire that feeds upon and grows from its own satisfaction. "
Benjamin Peret 1953
interesting essay on Toyen here >
previous toyen
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898-1972)... lithograph
from the series Order and Chaos - Compass rose ~ 1955
This special edition of lithographs where intended to be presented to the members of the Masonic Order in Holland, the Knights of Templar.
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Saturday, July 23, 2011
The Story of the Eye ...Andre Masson..book cover
Cover sketch for George Bataille's Story of the Eye - first edition 1928 - André Masson
"And it struck me that death was the sole outcome of my erection, and if Simone and I were killed, then the universe of our unbearable personal vision was certain to be replaced by the pure stars, fully unrelated to any external gazes and realizing in a cold state, without human delays or detours, something that strikes me as the goal of my sexual licentiousness: a geometric incandescence (among other things, the coinciding point of life and death, being and nothingness), perfectly fulgurating..."
George Bataille's Story of the Eye
previous post > George Bataille
Friday, July 22, 2011
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
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