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I really did not expect her to take a sudden swat at Simone Weil like that but it made me laugh and I loved everything about this interview actually.

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doggie hairclip

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Paul Klee. Giant Aphid (Riesenblattlaus) for the illustrated book Deutsche Graphiker der Gegenwart. 1920.

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Charm lot.

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Hermès

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Jules Pascin Penguin Dinner Invitation 1917

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Mountain Lake (Gornoe ozero) / Old Village (Staryj gorodok)

"In the portfolio Stichi bez slov (Verses without words) Vasily Kandinsky leaves the modern world and all its distractions and sails away on Viking ships and down the Rhine to a fairy-tale world filled with gallant mounted riders, elegant ladies, peaceful landscapes, and onion-domed churches. Frustrated with his attempts at writing poetry in German, Kandinsky used these woodcuts to give shape to the nostalgia for his Russian homeland that he found impossible to put into words. As he explained to his companion, painter Gabriele Münter, "I must do them, for I cannot rid myself of my thoughts (or possibly dreams) any other way."

The imagery in these prints was central to the symbolic vocabulary that appeared throughout Kandinsky's work. Five of the woodcuts repeat previous compositions, and Kandinsky returned to five others in later prints and paintings. Most significantly, Kandinsky used the horse and rider motif, his symbol of a warrior for new art, for the first time here.

Kandinsky saw the woodcut medium as being akin to lyric poetry: both forms demanded concentration on the essential. Woodcut pushed him to simplify his imagery; his undulating lines and decorative patterns are in fact potent symbols of longing. These experimentations, prompted by the technical requirements of printmaking, played a crucial role in Kandinsky's development of abstraction."

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Harold Mallette Dean Bird 1939 Linoleum cut

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Pierre Bonnard. Dogs (Les chiens). 1893

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Édouard Vuillard. The Dressmaker (La couturière) from La Revue Blanche. c. 1894

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Otto Dix. Shell Crater with Flowers (Spring 1916)  (Granattrichter mit Blumen [Frühling 1916]) from The War (Der Krieg). 1924

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Charles Sheeler. Barn Abstraction. 1918

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Ida O'Keeffe Mt. Washington 1933

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Max Ernst

The Chestnut Trees Take-Off (Le Start du châtaignier) from Natural History (Histoire naturelle). c. 1925, published 1926

To Forget Everything (A tout oublier) from Natural History (Histoire naturelle). c. 1925, published 1926

Details from... Little Tables around the Earth (Petites tables autour de la terre) from Natural History (Histoire naturelle). c. 1925, published 1926

Confidences (Les Confidences) from Natural History (Histoire naturelle). c. 1925, published 1926

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