Image of a painting shows a female alchemist / scientist creating a moon or a star.

"Star Maker" by Remedios Varos, 1958

Loving this surrealist take on the creation of different aspects of the natural world.

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Ciphers and Constellations in Love with a Woman. Joan Miro. 1941. Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, Illinois. Miro (1893-1983) was a Spanish painter known for abstract art, which depicted both expressionism and surrealism. This painting shows black and red dots, figures, and two eyes (green and yellow) against a neutral background. Squiggly lines connect some of the dots and figures. Two stars and a crescent are in blue.

Monday Miro.
Spanish painter Joan Miro.
Ciphers and Constellations, in Love with a Woman. 1941.
Art Institute of Chicago.
Chicago, Illinois.

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To the right of the foreground, two tall cypress trees. In the center, a fountain with a rounded basin and star-shaped pool. Behind it, flower beds and another cypress tree. In the background and center, a tower with a double-arched window and mullion.

Mirador de Lindaraja, La Alhambra, Granada / Garden of Lindaraja, by Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida, 1909, oil on canvas
Museo Sorolla, Madrid
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Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

Maja vestida, 1805
Maja desnuda, 1800

«Nadie se conoce. El mundo es una farsa, caras, voces, disfraces; todo es mentira.»

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