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“I should not lose my sanity” - Art by Priscilla Monge

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Eyes without a face, Oda Iselin Sønderland

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Watching it burn, Citlali Haro

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Rodin, The embrace

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Théodore Géricault’s Morgue Studies, 1819.  Pioneering French Romantic artist Théodore Géricault is best known for painting The Raft of the Medusa. The over-life-sized artwork depicts the survivors of a real-life shipwreck attempting to escape the scene, signaling to a ship on the horizon. The incident itself was devastating (those set adrift resorted to cannibalism, and only 15 of 147 people on the raft made it). The accident became a public spectacle and scandal due to an inept captain who abandoned crew and passengers, and an attempted cover up by political officials. Hoping to launch his career, Géricault set about painting the aftermath of the accident with obsessive dedication. His studies for the final work were based on interviews with survivors, scale models of the raft, and trips to the morgue and hospitals. Human remains were often loaned to artists for anatomical study, and Géricault soon amassed a collection of putrid body parts to help inform his work. His neighbors didn’t take kindly to the smell. The final painting caused a controversy when it appeared at the 1819 Paris Salon. However, most of his studies of those rotting corpses remained in his studio until his death.

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The Rocky Horror Picture Show directed by Jim Sharman, 1975

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David Bowie

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lobster -

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New York Dolls: Johnny Thunders & David Johansen in Hollywood, 1973, by Bob Gruen

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Stockholm   -    Lars Boethius , 1930

Swedish, 1903-1968)

canvas, 9 x 72.5 cm. (23.2 x 28.5 in.)

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Untitled (Patio Door), 1970

 Georgia O'Keeffe 

 watercolor and charcoal on paper

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film still from »untitled (blood sign #1)« by ana mendieta

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The Angry Roses

detail 2 By Angela Deane

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