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

Above or Below

“Women are kept from moral agency not by biology, but by a male social system that puts women above or below simple human choice”
Andrea Dworkin - Right-Wing Women - 1983

Gustav Klimt - Beethoven Frieze, detail (Paradise Chorus) -1902

J.M. Lauweriks - L'Odorat - ? (c.a. 1900?)

Koloman Moser - Poster for the 13th Vienna Secession Exhibition - 1902

Piet Mondrian - Evolution Tryptich - 1911

Like a small photograph - Peter Behrens

“Art is the performance of the cosmic drama in which by means of pictures as symbols the cosmic event is shown in deep convincing acts. The cosmic story, the cosmic drama, the cosmic statue, the cosmic painting, the cosmic building, in short, the harmony, the whole cosmos put together in one aspect, like a small photograph which shows the whole scene.”

J.L.M. Lauweriks, Het nut en doel der kunst, in Theosophia, 1907
Quoted in and translated by F.G. Evelein, “‘Pure Theosophical art.’ cosmogenesis, cosmic consciousness and evolution.” 

Paper presented at the Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, April 1996, via Susan R. Henderson 

Peter Behrens - Crematorium - Hagen - 1906/1907

Peter Behrens - Crematorium - Hagen - 1906/1907

Peter Behrens - Crematorium - Hagen - 1906/1907

The Sense of Wonder

"The suddenness, radical disorientation, the sensation to be withdrawn from the normal course of time, 

the intuitive certitude to have come in contact with a real ordinarily hidden, 
the overwhelming joy, the serenity, the sense of wonder." 

Michel Hulin, La Mystique Sauvage: Aux Antipodes de l'Esprit, translation mine. 

Gustav Klimt - Fish Blood - 1897-98

Jan Toorop - Fatalism - 1893

Kasimir Malevich - The Shroud of Christ - 1908