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Nickolas Muray, Ruth St Denis, 1925

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Pierre-François Bouchard - LA CUEILLEUSE DE CERISES (detail)

Crystal clear ice of the frozen Baikal Lake

- Albert Camus, The Fall

Untitled (Eating Lobster), Photo by Carrie Mae Weems, 1990

Oil on canvas, 59 1/10 × 47 1/5 in  150 × 120 cm

acrylic on canvas, 49 x 36 ½in. (124.4 x 92.7cm.)

“When I stayed at Santo Sospir in the summer of 1950, I hastily decorated a wall. Matisse told me that if you decorate one wall you should do the others as well. He was right. Picasso opened and closed all the doors. All that was left to do was to paint the doors. But the doors lead into rooms. The rooms have walls. And if the doors are painted, the walls have an empty look. I spent the entire summer of 1950 working on ladders. An old Italian worker prepared my pigments, immersed in fresh milk. A young woman lives at Santo Sospir. I didn’t need to dress the walls. I had to draw on their surface. That’s why I made line frescoes, with a few colours that echoed tattoo art. Santo Sospir is the tattooed villa.” 

The Color of Pomegranates (1969) - Sergei Parajanov

Photo by Vivian Maier, 1959