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Art about Dreaming, Reality and the Unconscious Mind...

GEORGIA O’KEEFFE ~ CITY NIGHT

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“City Night” 1926 by Georgia O’Keeffe 1887-1986

GEORGIA O'KEEFFE ~ CITY NIGHT

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“City Night” 1926 by Georgia O’Keeffe 1887-1986

FRANZ VON STUCK ~ THE KISS OF THE SPHINX

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The kiss of the Sphinx, 1895

Franz von Stuck

This painting is about a dangerous woman seducing the man and giving him bad luck…

LEON SPILLIAERT ~ THE NIGHT

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“La Nuit, the Night” 1908 by Leon Spilliaert 1881-1946

DALI ~ ON REALITY

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“One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.”
Salvador Dali

ANAIS NIN ~ LIFE AND DEATH

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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
Anais Nin, “Winter of Artifice”

ANAIS NIN ~ ON MYSTERY

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“The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.”
Anais Nin

PAUL BOURGUET ~ ON DREAMS

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“Dreams are but lies, says an old maxim; but when our last hour is at hand, and but a few brief minutes are left to what was I, pale lights that are fast growing dim, who can tell by what mark to distinguish you, O memories of the actual life, from you, O mirages from the dream life.” –
Paul Bourguet

Painting is Sadko, 1876 by Ilja Repin

ALFRED KUBIN ~ DYING

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“Sterben (Dying),” circa 1899

The Austrian artist Alfred Kubin (1877-1959) began his career just as Freud released “The Interpretation of Dreams.”

Accordingly, the Neue Galerie’s “Alfred Kubin: Drawings, 1897-1909” is replete with the terrors of the freshly analyzed psyche.

Photo: Photograph courtesy of Alfred Kubin/Neue Galerie, New York

CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI ~ DAUGHTER OF EVE

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A Daughter of Eve

A fool I was to sleep at noon,
And wake when night is chilly
Beneath the comfortless cold moon;
A fool to pluck my rose too soon,
A fool to snap my lily.

My garden-plot I have not kept;
Faded and all-forsaken,
I weep as I have never wept:
Oh it was summer when I slept,
It’s winter now I waken.

Talk what you please of future spring
And sun-warm’d sweet to-morrow:
Stripp’d bare of hope and everything,
No more to laugh, no more to sing,
I sit alone with sorrow.

Christina Georgina Rossetti

Painting is Eve of St. Agnes by John Millais

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