Odysseus on the Island of Circe, 2018 by Paul Reid (b. 1975)
Parakeet on Table, 1924 by Yamamura Toyonari (1885-1942)
Siblings by Eva Švankmajerová (1940 – 2005)
What is happening here is obvious: that lady who is knitting fisherman’s rib is making animated characters who leave through the window.
Remedios Varo’s description of her painting The Knitting Woman of Verona (1956). From the collection Letters, Dreams & Other Writings. Translated by Margaret Carson. From Wakefield Press.
— Where were you all day? Mr. Yak asked again, when they bumped the second time.
—The Prado.
—The art museum? Mr. Yak shrugged. —What did you do there? He glanced up at the face beside him, and said, —You don’t look like you liked it much. The art there.
—Well they . . . the El Greco, his companion began, as though called upon to comment, and he drew his hand across his eyes.
—They have so many in one room, they’re almost hung on top of each other and it’s too much, it’s too much plasticity, there’s too much movement there in that one room . . . He suddenly looked up at Mr. Yak, holding a hand out before them which appeared to try to shape something there. —Do you … do you see what I mean? With a painter like El Greco, somebody called him a visceral painter, do you see what I mean? And when you get so much of his work hung together, it … the forms stifle each other, it’s too much. Down where they have the Flemish painters hung together it’s different, because they’re all separate . . . the compositions are separate, and the . . . the Bosch and Breughel and Patinir and even Dürer, they don’t disturb each other because the . . . because every composition is made up of separations, or rather … I mean … do you see what I mean? But the harmony in one canvas of El Greco is all one . . . one . . . He had both hands out before him now, the fingers turned in and the thumbs up as though holding something he was studying with a life which Mr. Yak had not seen in his face before. But he broke off abruptly, and his hands came down to his sides.
From William Gaddis’s The Recognitions.
Minotaur Surprised while Eating, 1987 by Maggi Hambling (b. 1945)
“A Tale of Christmas” by Moebius. Published in Heavy Metal, December 1979. Via the Bristol Board.
Mirage, 1967 by Bridget Tichenor (1917-1990)
Winter Solstice, 1970 by Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975)
Woman Seated on a Naked Man, 1942 by Leonor Fini (1908-1996)
Untitled, 1959 by Saul Steinberg (1914-1999). From The Labyrinth.
Oso Dorado (Golden Bear), 2013 by Walton Ford (b. 1960)
The Penitent of Valverde de la Vera by Margaret Modlin (1927–1998)
From “The Repairmen” (part of Upon a Star) by Moebius
The Lovers, 1963 by Remedios Varo (1908-1963)
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