Marcel Delmotte - Diana, the Huntress.

MARCEL DELMOTTE | LES COLONNES D’HERCULE (1964)

For Coal Shortage - Thomas Theodor Heine (28 February 1867–26 January 1948)

Monster Brains: "Thomas Theodor Heine was a German painter and illustrator. Born in Leipzig, Heine established himself as a gifted caricaturist at an early age, which led to him studying art at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and, briefly, at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. In 1896 he became successful as an illustrator for the satirical Munich magazine Simplicissimus, for which he appropriated the stylistic idiom of Jugendstil and the graphic qualities of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Aubrey Beardsley and Japanese woodcuts. The illustrated critiques of social orders, and the monarchy in particular, that he made for the magazine led to a six-month prison sentence in 1898. He also began work as a book illustrator in the 1890s. He fled Germany in 1933, first to Prague. From 1938 until 1942 he lived in Oslo, and from 1942 until his death in 1948 he lived in Stockholm. He published a highly-cynical autobiography in 1942 Ich warte auf Wunder (English: I Wait for Miracles)." - quote source

All of Heine's illustrations from Simplicissimus can be found here."

Camarilla: "A group of courtiers or favourites who surround a king or ruler. Usually, they do not hold any office or have any official authority at the royal court but influence their ruler behind the scenes. Consequently, they also escape having to bear responsibility for the effects of their advice." The New Camillara - Thomas Theodore Hein

Theseus in the Minotaur’s labyrinth by Edward Burne-Jones

Allegory of Rhetoric - Laurent de La Hyre  (1606–1656) 

Wifredo Lam, Belial, Emperor of the Flies, 1948, oil on canvas

I saw this painting today at “Surrealism Without Borders”, currently on show at Tate Modern, and fell in love with the tiny dude near the middle of the picture.

He’s just a little guy, and he’s a big mood.

Hein Heckroth

Hein Heckroth

Paul Cézanne

Pierrot and Harlequin

1888-1890

An Allegory of Power by Georg Janny  (1864-1935)  

Sappho by Jules Joseph Lefebvre (Early 20th Century)

Robing of the Bride - Max Ernst

Histoire d’O - Leonor Fini

Leonor Fini

Via. The Cabinet of The Solar Plexus - Born today... Alice Rahon, June 8, 1904, France.

In earliest times painting was magical; it was a key to the invisible. In those days the value of a work lay in its power of conjuration, a power that talent alone could not achieve. Like the shaman, the Sybil and the wizard, the painter had to make himself humble, so that he could share in the manifestation of spirits and forms. The rhythm of our life today denies the primordial principle of painting: conceived in contemplation, the emotional content of the picture cannot be perceived without contemplation.

Alice Rahon, 1951.

image: The Juggler from the Orion’s Ballet Series, white ink on card, 1946

Illustration from East of the Sun and West of the Moon. Kay Nielsen, 1913–1914. Pen and ink, over graphite.