Marie.Death

Puppy sleeping. 1955, Japan

- Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes

Eikoh Hosoe

Woman On the Dalmatian Coast by Hermann David Salomon Corrodi (Italian painter, 1844-1905)

“In Wagner’s opera Parsifal, Herzeleide, a grieving widow, raises her son in seclusion to protect him from danger. When Parsifal leaves home to fulfill his destiny, she dies of a broken heart (Herzeleide means “suffering heart” in German). Kiefer found his composition in a book from the Nazi era, a time when mothers were exalted for sacrificing their sons for the war.” ~ https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/486549

Eve by Felix Joseph Barrias (French painter, 1822-1907)

The boy who plays the flute, Sinsu-dong, Seoul, South Korea, 1957 - by Jeong Bum-Tae (1929), South Korean

Pigeons, Wilhelm Kotarbinski

Gustav Klimt (1862-1918), Danaë, 1907-1908, oil on canvas, 77 x 83 cm. Galerie Würthle - In Greek mythology, Danaë was the daughter of King Acrisius of Argos and Queen Eurydice. Disappointed by his lack of male heirs, King Acrisius asked the oracle of Delphi if this would change. The oracle announced to him that he would never have a son, but his daughter would, and that he would be killed by his daughter’s son. Read more - Mysterious Art Century Instagram - Facebook - Twitter - Pinterest - Shop

Don Hong-Oai, 'Drying Cloth', 1964

Medium: indianink,watercolor,paper,tempera