Born today... Méret Oppenheim, 6 October 1913 Berlin, Germany

Méret Oppenheim ~ Enchantment 1962

Meret Oppenheim ~ Breakfast in Fur 1936

''All thoughts that have ever been thought roll around the Earth in a colossal sphere of ideas. The Earth explodes, the sphere is shattered, and the thoughts spread across the universe, where they live on in distant stars."

from "Self-Portrait from 50.000 BC to X" (1980) ~ Méret Oppenheim

Dolorosa de la Cruz... Collage work 2015

...you lie frozen in the shadow of my night~ Elemental Passions, collage 2015

Miniature, The Frenzy of Kali, Pahari, Late 19th C.

 

Harald Friedrich... The Aquarius, c. 1900

Oil painting of the German painter Harald Friedrich, the grandson and last direct descendant of Caspar David Friedrich

 

 

 

 

Louise Janin (1893 -1997)... Atlantis or the coronation of water and fire 1951

 

Valentine Hugo (1887-1968) ~ Couple anthropomorphe

 

Brion Gysin (1916-1986)... Composition, ink on paper

Hilma af Klint... Untitled, 1933

Andrey Bely ... Meditative drawings c1918

Axl Leskoschek ~ Musik, woodcut 1979

Axl Leskoschek ~ illustration for a collection of poems by Erich Fitzbauer, woodcut 1979

Ithell Colquhoun.... Autumnal Equinox, oil on canvas 1949

Muin (Sept 2nd-30th)

I am the month of Muin, month of the vine

Exhilaration is mine through the garland of fruit

Draped from the right shoulder across the swell

Of a belly like Primavera's; yet mine of early

Fall is the realm. On the head too are grapes

And the vine-leaves wreathing my autumn-coloured hair

My robe the bluish mist of a sky pregnant

With the first heavy dews.

How calm I am! Yet is there perhaps hidden

AN anger that gives authority to my poise?

I drank from the horn-cup and swam into a trance

So deep that only attraction amethystine

Recalls me, after a voyage through gates of horn

I come now to bless and renew dreams that are true

-Ithell Colquhoun

Josef Šíma (1891-1971) ... Black Sun 1969

Black Sun ~ ink drawing on paper 1969