Born today...Karin Boye,poet, October 26, 1900 Gothenburg, Sweden

THE WORLD'S HEART 

Say, where does the world's heart burn,

the world's heart of fire? 

It lives on coarse, heavy prehistoric coal:

black darkness, dense night, Chaos. 

Seek there! 

itself a struggle, glowing struggle -

For thus is the nature of fire: 

strong with its foe's struggle - 

has no other nature. 

And the victory? When the darkness has disappeared in flames?

and fire wants to conquer.

Is the victory death? 

Empty question and empty fear! 

The world's heart is fire,

 Lucifer

Lilith and Faun

Life and Death

Andrei Bely ... “Overview of Blok’s poetry”, 1923.

Andrei Bely ~ “Overview of Blok’s poetry”. Illustration to “Lectures about Blok”, 1923. Pencil, coloured pencil and watercolour on paper.

Born today... Andrei Bely, 26 October 1880, Moscow Russia

Once upon a time there were no grasses, nor "Earths", nor flints, nor granites; it was - flamy; laminae of flying gas diffused through the Cosmos; the earth was gurgling like a fiery flower; it was developing, confluing from the Cosmic sphere; and these gestures of the fires later duplicated themselves: in the petals of flowers; because of this the cosmic light is - the colored flower of the fields; all flowers/colors are - memories about the fires of the limitless, cosmic sphere; all words are - memories of the sound of an ancient meaning.

Once upon a time there were no concepts in our sense: a conceptual crust surrounded the image of the word; once there was not even the image itself of the word; later the images surrounded the imageless root; previously there had been no root; all roots are - serpent skins; the living serpent is - the tongue; once that snake had been streams, the palate had been - the sail of rhythms, carried along; the cosmos, as it firmed up, became the cavity of the mouth; a stream of air - this dancer of the world is - our tongue.

Glossolalia~ A Poem about Sound 1922

Black Sun Press... Hindu Love Book, 1928

Facsimile taken from an ancient manuscrit found in Damascus

François Chauveau (1613-1676)...Satyr Mask, ca. 1635–45

Angelo Caroselli (1585-1652)... La Negromante oil on canvas 17thc

Nathaniel Sparks (1880-1956) ... Etchings

The Shadow and the Shade 1928

Adam, a memorial plate to Henry Hardy, 1930

Leonor Fini (1908-1996) ... Outrageous Dream, oil on canvas 1978

Camillo Mantovano...The Chastisement of Love (Mars Whipping Cupid, Pursued by a Fury) c16thc

Louis Dorigny (1654 - 1742)...Pan and Syrinx

Claude Louis Desrais (1746 – 1816)... A Bacchic Celebration.1772

Frida Kahlo... Portrait of Irene Bohus, pencil on paper 1947

Sylvia Fein... Kite Eye, 2006

Eileen Agar (1904 - 1991)... The Witch, Watercolor, crayon, pen and ink, pencil, wash and collage on paper 1975

Eileen Agar (1904 - 1991)... The Wings of Augury, mixed media 1936

Kay Sage (1898 - 1963)... Tarot Card, Gouache and brush and pen and ink on paper 1941

René Magritte ... Sunset, pencil drawing undated

Alastair (Hans Henning von Voigt)... The Vampire, 1920

Norman Lindsay (1879 – 1969) ... Strange Lands 1932

Norman Lindsay (1879 – 1969) ... The dream watercolour on paper 1923

Jean Veber (1864-1928)...Rana. Lithographie, 1896

J. Danguy ...Le Château de la mort, lithograph 1895

Martin Van Maele ... etching for Gustave Drozs' Summer in the country c1920

Nicolaï Kalmakoff (1873 -1955)... The Coronation from "The gates of paradise, Hell" 1926

Lucien COUTAUD (1904 -1977) ...Hommage à Raymond Roussel, 1944

Lucien Coutaud (1904-1977) ... Centaur and Siren sketch, 1933

Lucien Coutaud (1904-1977) ~ Centaur and Siren sketch, part of a letter sent to Isabelle Kloucowski 1933 gouache on paper

Albert Guillaume... The Devil in the 19thc or the Mysteries of Spiritualism by Dr. Bataille 1890-1900

Pierre Molinier...White Satin, God's Eye, 1940

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

Born today... Antonio Saura, September 22, 1930, Huesca, Spain

image: Crucifix 1963

Michaelis Faustij...Compendium alchymist 1706 Rebis Hermaphroditus

New works showing in Dublin ...Cauda Pavonis/ Bestia Fera Spiritus

GALLERY X 

Unica Zürn... Oil on canvas 1956

Unica Zürn... Pen, ink and mascara drawing 1964