Tina Bopiah. "The Birth Canal".

Herodias, a plump woman with a beautiful, stern face, her arms crossed beneath her chest, sits on the left of the painting – which is remarkable for its colour and composition – next to the head of John the Baptist on the platter, gazing at him, presumably in deep thought.

Ivan Kramskoi, 'Herodias' (1884-1886)

Schlemmer was a key figure and Master at the renowned Bauhaus school, where he headed the stage workshop from 1923. The ballet explored the relationship between the human figure and space, geometry, and technology. The elaborate, sculptural costumes transformed the dancers into geometric shapes, restricting their movement to emphasize form over realistic expression. The production featured 18 different costumes and 12 different dances, divided into three parts based on color: yellow, pink, and black. The design in the image is one of the most iconic from the production, known for its bold, optical-art-style black and white stripes and spiral hat.

A moment from German Bauhaus artist Oskar Schlemmer's avant-garde production, Das Triadische Ballett (The Triadic Ballet), first performed in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1922.

#oskarschlemmer #bauhaus #triadischeballett #triadicballet #germany #dance #costumedesign #setdesign #moderndesign #art

An impressionist painting of a figure dressed in black with a white ghostly figure of the same man behind him. It's full of browns, oranges and yellows, giving an anticipatory and fearfull feeling with sharp diagonals and splotched colors.

The Self Seers (Death and Man) by the Austrian artist Egon Schiele (1890–1918)

A lovely representation of the #folklore of seeing the Fetch of the self as an omen of death.

#WitchSky

What a gem this archive of live concerts is – all recorded by Chicago-based Aadam Jacobs, who has recorded thousands of live concerts over several decades.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Feast_of_the_Gods_(van_Bijlert)

Jan van Bijlert, 'The feast of the gods' (circa 1635-1640)

As hanami, flower blossom viewing, spread among commoners during the Edo period, so too did the popularity of cherry blossoms in woodblock prints.

This visual tradition carried into the Meiji era through hand-colored photographs and postcards - but something curious emerges here. 🧵
🗃️ 📜 #Japan #花見

Spectre over Los / William Blake (1757–1827) / Wikimedia Commons / Public domain. A painting from Jeruesalem by William Blake showing a winged spectre surrounded by many bright flames, hovering over Los, as Los half sits on top of two large stone blocks, on which he rests a stout hammer. To the left (Los's right) is what looks like a long set of pincers, and to the right are what look like bellows and a very stout chain. Los is the personification of the poetic imagination and serves as the progenitor of humanity and the messiah figure of the work.

Awake!
~~~~~
“Each Man is in his Spectre’s power
Until the arrival of that hour
When his Humanity awake,
And cast his Spectre into the Lake.”

~ William Blake, orig. Notebook 1800–08.

Quoted in Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials: The Complete Collection, Part 3: The Amber Spyglass.

A snake on a crucifix. Drawing. From: Abrahami Eleazaris Uraltes Chymisches Werk. 1760.

Forest Ghost
by Alfred Kubin (1923)
#PhantomsFriday

By Takato Yamamoto

Lucia Perešová www.instagram.com/geminiblush/

Oh you lords of the western sky, o you gods of the western sky, o you who rule the shores of the western sky, who rejoice at Hathor's coming, who love to see her beauty rise! (Stela of King Wanankh Intef II) (ALL)

'Once they have trapped you into being like everyone else you will never see your cup of stars again....' A sublime piece of writing by Shirley Jackson (1916-1965) from 'The Haunting of Hill House.'

A small part of the UFO magazines that I am filing. So much energy, curiosity, enthusiasm and action. These iamges are from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.

Hay-zeus! Klarwein created this painting--which he called Annunciation--in 1961!

This is a great demonstration of cultural exchange. It’s a frieze in the classical style from what is now Pakistan with distinctive subcontinental styling on the figures, but depicting Dionysus (L) dead drunk at a revel propped up by two women.

🕰️C1st-2nd AD
🏛️Tokyo National Museum
📷mine

Who The F*** is Mark Fisher? and Why You Should Care: They Made A Film About Making A Film About Mark Fisher A DIY film about Mark Fisher becomes something stranger: a living artwork where theory, protest, and post-punk collide into a restless search for life beyond capitalist realism.

"The language of capitalist realism, hauntology & postcapitalist desire helps explain the conditions they r experiencing. Precarity, platform capture, environmental crisis & political fatigue. Rather than despair, th response is often practical. Conversation moves quickly from theory to action"

In the spirit of #TechnopaganTuesday I bring you a little something from the free internet. A selection of LibriVox recordings, all taken from the mind of #Lovecraft. Quality of narration varies, but there's sure to be something worth listening to here. One for #CthulhuSky too I'd wager.

Hungarian–French photographer and filmmaker Brassaï
(Gyula Halász)

The Fortune Teller (detail, 1933)

#Brassaï #Photography

date inscribed Presented by the executors of W. Graham Robertson through the Art Fund 1949

Christ Blessing the Little Children www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/blake-chris...

Hans Richter (with scenes from his film "Dreams That Money Can Buy") - BOTD

Ballet Mécanique (1924, 2K Digitally Restored, With Score by George Antheil) YouTube video by Journey To The Center Of The Cinema

Ballet Mécanique (1923–24) is a Dadaist, post-Cubist art film conceived, written, & co-directed by artist Fernand Léger & filmmaker Dudley Murphy (with input from Man Ray).[1][2] It premiered in a silent version on 24 September 1924 at the Internationale Ausstellung neuer Theatertechnik in Vienna

Lola Álvarez Bravo / Mandíbula de Caballo, 1960

In the spacious sky in which reification of objects and mind
is cleared away,
awareness, free of the turmoil of thought,
is embraced within the scope of naturally unsullied openness:
the "vajra dance" is the unrestricted and uninterrupted nature
of phenomena.

~ Longchenpa

I am Yesterday, I know Tomorrow. (BDB)

Witness: Midbrain, 2014 by Deborah Bell