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Moses a.k.a. Nucleus of Creation by Frida Kahlo, 1945. Oil on canvas, 61.5 x 76.2 cm.

From FridaKahlo.org1:

This painting was commissioned by Don Jose Domingo Lavin. Lavin asked Frida Kahlo to read Sigmund Freud’s book Moses the Man and Monotheistic Religion and to paint her understanding and interpretation of the book. […] This painting was drawn as a miniature mural, perhaps influenced by her husband, Diego Rivera, who is famous as a muralist.

In this painting, in the center is an abandoned baby which has a third eye in his forehead. The baby’s face resembles Diego Rivera. Frida always painted Rivera with the third eye of wisdom in her other paintings. The birth is under a sun flanked by heroes, gods, other people, and the hands of death. In the foreground there is a baby in the womb, which is leaking into the shell. Frida referred to that as a “symbol of love”. There are branches extending out from the dead tree trunks. In many of her other paintings Frida would use dead limbs to refer the life and death cycle in the world.

A quote from Kahlo:

“I read the book only once, and started the painting with my first impression. Later I read it again, and I must confess I found my work most inadequate and quite different from the interpretation Freud analyzes so marvelously in his [book] Moses. But now there’s no way to change it.”

I cleaned up the English a bit. ↩

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Breaking the Vicious Circle by Remedios Varo, 1962. Oil on canvas.

One of Varo’s last paintings, Breaking the Vicious Circle (1962, fig. XXI), is emblematic of this tension between the past and the future, between social constructs and spiritual growth. An androgyne stands in a brown, shapeless void – s/he snaps the circular rope that has kept imagination and autonomy entrapped. The breaking of the circle opens up the torso of the figure to reveal a path through a forest. By breaking from the past and tradition, the figure unveils the spiritual journey that lies within the heart.1

Noah Lyons, “Remedios Varo: An Alchemical Artist,” Term paper (Graduate Theological Union, 2012), 20. ↩

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Eclosion VI by André Masson, 1958. Gouache, pastel, feathers, sand on paper on canvas, 73 × 100 cm. Galeria Marc Domenech, Barcelona, Spain.

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Catax by Francis Picabia. Painting.

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There is only one important point you must keep in your mind and let it be your guide. No matter what people call you, you are just who you are. Keep to this truth. You must ask yourself how is it you want to live your life. We live and we die, this is the truth that we can only face alone. No one can help us, not even the Buddha. So consider carefully, what prevents you from living the way you want to live your life?

Dalai Lama (via thecalminside)

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Piper Chapman will not put up with anyone’s sexist bullshit

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Trans activists in Mexico City, protesting violence against the LGBTQ community.

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My life. Lmao always the winnie

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