Princess Maria Volkonsky at the Age of Twelve, 1945 by Balthus (1908-2001)
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Ceremony — Leonor Fini
Ceremony, 1960 by Leonor Fini (1908-1996)
Metamorphosis — Margaret Tomkins
Metamorphosis, 1943 by Margaret Tomkins (1916-2002)
Metamorphosis — Riccardo Tommasi Ferroni
Metamorphosis, 1965 by Riccardo Tommasi Ferroni (1934-2000)
Culmin’s Ghost Appears to His Mother — Nicolai Abildgaard
Culmin’s Ghost Appears to His Mother, 1794 by Nicolai Abildgaard (1743–1809)
Near are the steps of Culmin; the youth came, bursting into tears. Wrathful he cut the wind, ere yet he mixed his strokes with Fillan. He had first bent the bow with Rothmar, at the rock of his own blue streams. There they had marked the place of the roe, as the sunbeam flew over the fern. Why, son of Cul-allin! why, Culmin, dost thou rush on that beam of light? It is a fire that consumes. Son of Cul-allin, retire. Your fathers were not equal in the glittering strife of the field. The mother of Culmin remains in the hall. She looks forth on blue-rolling Strutha. A whirlwind rises, on the stream, dark-eddying round the ghost of her son. His dogs are howling in their place. His shield is bloody in the hall. “Art thou fallen, my fair-haired son, in Erin’s
dismal war?”
The Confidence Man — Guy Pène du Bois
The Confidence Man, 1919 by Guy Pène du Bois (1884-1958)
Reading — Robert Kushner
Reading, 1987 by Robert Kushner (b. 1949)
Prometheus in Chains — Frantisek Kupka
Prometheus in Chains, 1905 by Frantisek Kupka (1871-1957)
Obatan Parrot — Hiroshi Yoshida
Obatan Parrot, 1926 by Hiroshi Yoshida (1876-1950)
The Inner City — Alice Rahon
The Inner City by Alice Rahon (1904–1987)
The God Mother — Leonora Carrington
The Godmother, 1970 by Leonora Carrington (1917–2011)
Prometheus — Oskar Kokoschka
Prometheus Being Chained by Vulcan –Dirck van Baburen
Prometheus Being Chained by Vulcan, 1623 by Dirck van Baburen (c. 1595– 1624)
Prometheus — Otto Greiner
Prometheus, 1909 by Otto Greiner (1869-1916)
Three-Cornered Hat — Walt Kuhn
Three-Cornered Hat, 1943 by Walt Kuhn (1880-1949)
The Unsmiling Tsarena — Viktor Vasnetsov
The Unsmiling Tsarena, 1926 by Viktor Vasnetsov (1848-1926)
Edward Hopper was my inspiration for a lot of the songs I made up with my band The Modern Lovers
Edward Hopper, especially that painting of the gas station at night—Gas (1940)—was my inspiration for a lot of the songs I made up with my band The Modern Lovers when I was a kid. Especially “Roadrunner” owes to that gas station painting, but any songs I made up about lonely nights on lonely highways and the way lights were like friends in the dark. This is what “Roadrunner” was about. The Velvet Underground covered this kind of stark, lonely feeling of wonder and had a sound which, with its drowning darkness, felt right for my explorations into bleak, modern-world terror. That plus Hopper was a big part of my starting music.
From the Art News Muses column by Jonathan Richman.
