Renunciation

Sergius Pauser - Bildnis eines Herrn - 1942

August Sander - Banker - 1929

Felice Casorati - Ritratto di Riccardo Gualino - 1922

Tendrils

William Blake - The Book of Thel - 1789

Hermann Obrist - Der Peitschenhieb - 1895

Henri Matisse - Venetian chair and fruits - 1942
Currently on show at the Royal Academy of Arts

All the Way to Heaven

"...The empty form goes all the way to heaven."

Agnes Martin, The Untroubled Mind, 1972

Koloman Moser - Vignetten - Ver Sacrum - 1900s

Julius Klinger - Tabu poster - 1919

Paul Jacoulet - Calligraphy - 1940s

Coloured Crystallization

"A nation does not pick its flag at random. There would be much to say about this kind of coloured crystallization of the deepest instincts of a people."

Jean Bazaine, Comoedia, 30 January 1943,

Quoted in Michèle C. Cone, French Modernism, 192.

Otto Freundlich - Composition - 1935

Jules Olitski - Cleopatra Flesh - 1962

Pablo Echaurren - Waltfuturismo - 1995

The Lines of the Craftsmen - Arne Jacobsen's Aarhus Town Hall

"I have seen the lines of the craftsmen, the finest of which are like a spider's web, but mathematical lines are different. 
They are not the images of such things as the eye of my body has showed me. 
The man who knows them does so without any cogitation of physical objects whatever, but intuits them within himself."

Augustine of Hippo, Confessions (book 10, chapter 12,) circa 397AD

Arne Jacobsen & Erik Møller - Aarhus Town Hall - 1937/42

Picture by Julian Weyer

Arne Jacobsen & Erik Møller - Aarhus Town Hall - 1937/42

Picture by Seier Seier

Arne Jacobsen & Erik Møller - Aarhus Town Hall - 1937/42

Picture by Maarten Helle

Arne Jacobsen & Erik Møller - Aarhus Town Hall - 1937/42

Picture by Seier Seier

Arne Jacobsen & Erik Møller - Aarhus Town Hall - 1937/42

Picture by Iznogut