wounded with joy

Linda Weir, "St La, the island and zinnias"




Frederick Carl Frieseke, "The Chinese Robe"


Alfred Stevens


Théo Van Rysselberghe

Alfred Stevens




Théo Van Rysselberghe

Constantine Popov,  "Violinist"


Pascale Taurua, “Bright red”


Stéphanie de Malherbe, “Delicatesse III”


Rusudan Khizanishvili


Kelly Witmer




Robert Reid, "Fleur de Lis"(detail)


Otto Wyler, "Woman in kimono"


Théo Van Rysselberghe


Duncan Grant, "Angelica Playing the Violin"


Théo Van Rysselberghe


Karel Bruckmann, "Brothers Bruckmann"


Marguerite Stuber Pearson, "The Music Room"


Frederick Carl Frieseke, "Closed Blinds"


Frederick Carl Frieseke






Massimiliano Ligabue, “Strings quartet”




1. line - Sylvia Plath
2. line - Emilie Buchwald
3. quote - Friedrich Nietzsche
4. line - Stanley Plumly

Life Dream

Sir Herbert James Gunn 

  “You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.” 

Svetlana Kurmaz,'Small Talk'


Lucy Grossmith


Bogusław Jagiełło (detail)


Marat Danilyan,'Olivia'


Lynn Chenn,'Life Dream'


Abbey McCulloch




Kuroki Mitsuko


Bonnie Marie Smith,'Tammy'

     And so she looks upon the floor 

    Or listens at an open door 

Leon de Smet

     Or sits besides the chinaware, 

    Sits mouthing meekly in a chair, 

    With over-curled, hard waving hair 

    Above her eyes. 

    Or grins too vacant into space— 

    A vacant space is in her face— 

    Where nothing came to take the place 

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Konstantin Sutyagin 

   “Imagination is the golden-eyed monster that never sleeps. 
    It must be fed; it cannot be ignored.” 


Alexej von Jawlensky 


Jennifer Davis 


 KANRO by ONEQ 


Xi Pan 


Egon Schiele 


André Lhote 


Pan Yuliang 

   
    To be what I 

   am . 

   To live the life that  was set for me to 

   live. 

  To voice the things that only I can 

   voice. 

   To bear the blossoms that are 

   commanded of my heart. 

   This is what I want, and surely, this cannot 

  be presumptuous. 

Alfred Courmes


Hugo Grenville


Euan Uglow


Alexander Sokht,'Barmaid'


Alexander Sokht,'Red Hair Girl'


Edgar Fernhout


Eric Bowman 


Ramon Casas i Carbó



1. line - Kahlil Gibran
2.and 3. line - Djuna Barnes
4. quote - Patricia A. McKillip
5. line - Rilke