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"Circle of Lust"
William Blake, 1821.
Blake is generally considered one of the founders of "free love." He opposed forced abstinence, believed that women have the right to self-realization. Calls for chastity called hypocrisy. In the artist's opinion, the outside world turns love from an attachment into an obligation because of the demands to observe iron fidelity.
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"Witches and their witchcraft"
Salvator Rosa, 1646
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"Hope"
George Frederick Watts, 1886.
The work is quite in the spirit of symbolism: a shrunken, as if from fear or cold, blindfolded figure hugs a broken lyre. Is hope always blind? Or can music save us, even if the world is crumbling around us? In works like this, everyone finds their own meaning.
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"Satan watches the ascent to Heaven"
John Martin, 1824
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"On the Threshold of Eternity"
Vincent van Gogh, 1890.
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The height of the mountain you've climbed
is determined by the depth of the hole you climbed out of
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"Soft construction with boiled beans: a premonition of the Civil War"
Salvador Dali, 1936.
The shape of this monster resembles the geographical outlines of Spain - and this resemblance is by no means accidental. It was impossible to come up with a more vivid and more powerful allegory of a country gripped by hatred, thirsty for blood and ready to start a fratricidal massacre.
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"Ghosts in a Tree"
Franz Sedlacek, 1933
The artist's paintings depict the dark, oppressive and disturbing state of mind of the frightening 1930s.A well-educated man, Franz Sedlacek never stopped painting the reality around him. The artist's end remains a mystery to this day, as he disappeared without a trace during the Nazi regime, but his eerie paintings have survived as witnesses to the unsettling times.
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"Dance of Death" series
Percy John Delf Smith, 1914-1918
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"Goodbye Hello"
Raymond Douillet
Quite an interesting painting, with meaning, depicting the fleeting cycle of life. At first glance, the work of the French artist looks very simple and understandable, however, upon detailed study there are many questions that do not have unambiguous answers. The painting caused a lot of discussions, the participants of which tried to find the best interpretation of the plot.
The longer and more closely you look at this picture, the more interesting it becomes. The most heartbreaking part is the loneliness after the second turn. Others are most distressed by the moment between the center of the composition and the second turn. Others try to understand what happens between childhood and middle age.
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"St. Augustine and the Devil"
Michael Pacher, 1471-1475.
The painting depicts St. Augustine looking at Satan as the leader of Hell holds a book in which he appears to be urging St. Augustine to write his name. Satan is depicted in a monstrous and even somewhat perverted way, something that has not been done before by other artists.
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Illustration
Rudolf Sieber-Lonati, 1965.
The peak of this artist's creative activity was in the 50s-80s of the XX century, and he mainly collaborated with European publishers and created illustrations for German and Austrian collections of detective stories, mystery and science fiction. In these, Lonati's illustrations were often much more interesting than the textual content itself.
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"Boy meets death"
Hans Anderson Brendekilde, 1939
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"The Soldier and the Girl"
Gerard van Honthorst, 1621
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