Reigen

Vincent van Gogh - Prisoners exercising - 1890

George Grosz - Die Pleite - 1919

Hubert Rüther - Gefangene - 1934-36

Kino-eye

Hanns Ludwig Katz - Augenoperation - 1929

Herbert Ploberger - Selbstbildnis mit ophthalmologischen Lehrmodellen - 1928–1930

Marcel Duchamp - Le témoin occuliste - 1965

Modules

Ernst Nepo - Familienporträt. Kinder der Familie Keller - 1929

Koloman Moser - Die Stadt - "Kind und Kunst" journal - 1904-1905)

Paul Kirnig - ZEHO Building Blocks - 1929 

Raised eyebrows

August Wilhelm Dressler - Bildnis Hochmann - 1922

Willi Geiger - Frauenporträt - 1931

Conrad Felixmüller - Bildnis Mo von Haugk (mit Katze) - 1932

Renunciation

Sergius Pauser - Bildnis eines Herrn - 1942

August Sander - Banker - 1929

Felice Casorati - Ritratto di Riccardo Gualino - 1922

Lemons

Felice Casorati - Natura morta, Limoni - 1930

Anton Räderscheidt - Zitrone mit Wasserglas - 1925

Karl Hofer - Stilleben mit Zitronen - ?

Forebearance

Sandro Botticelli - Mary with the Child and Singing Angels (detail) - ca. 1477

Gustave van de Woestyne - La paysanne - ca. 1925

Adolfo Wildt - Un rosario - 1915-7

Evolutionary Process

“I live on Earth at present and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing - a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process - an integral function of the Universe.”

Buckminster Fuller, I seem to be a Verb, 1970 

Ernst Haeckel - Rhizopoda Radiata - Kunstformen der Natur - 1904

Karl Blossfeldt - Abutilon, Saxifraga Aizoon, ? - Urformen der Kunst - 1929

Rudolph Steiner - Seven planetary seals - c.a. 1907

via Ritman Library

"All life is but a poem, a movement. I am but a word, a verb, a depth, in the most savage sense, the most mystique, the most alive."

Blaise Cendrars, Der Sturm, 1913
quoted in Michel Décaudin, La crise des valeurs symbolistes: vingt ans de poésie française, 1895-1914, 1991

We will remain Fighters

"Here is what we cannot deny, had we wanted to: combat, the father of all things, is  ours also; It is him who has hammered us, chiselled us and tempered us to make us what we are. And forever, as long as the wheel of life shall dance in us its mighty ronde, this war will be the axle around which she roars. She trained us for the fight, and for as long as we live, we will remain fighters."
Ernst Junger, The War as Inner Experience, 1922

C. R. W. Nevinson - Explosion - 1916

George Grosz - Explosion - 1917

Frank Hurley - Death the Reaper - 1917