#symbolic painting

[icecreamwithjackdaniels]

Paul Delvaux, "Skeletons in an office", 1944

[pagansphinx]

Leonora Carrington (British, worked in Mexico, 1917-2011) The Meal of Lord Candlestick • 1938

[larobeblanche]

Gertrude Demain Hammond (British, 1862-1953) • Speed the Parting Sweet • 1896

[permament-witzelsucht]

David Ligare | Landscape for Baucis and Philemon, 1984 | Classical Landscape, 1981 | Thrown Drapery, 1978 | Landscape with an Archer, 1991 |

[ahaura]

Odilon Redon (French, 1840–1916) detail of Fallen Angel Looking at a Cloud (c. 1875) oil on canvas

[desolatus]

Woman with Flower Head, C. 1937

Salvador Dali

[ourladyofthebrokenspine]

Men Shall Know Nothing of This Max Ernst , 1923

[collectionstilllife]

Kolokolchikov Sergey (Russian) • Three Pomegranate Seeds • c. 2018

Likely a nod to the Persephone myth, where Hades tempts her to eat a few (accounts vary) pomegranate seeds in the underworld. By doing so, Persephone is forever tied to Hades, even after she's returned to the surface of the world.

[4eternal-life]

Gertrude Abercrombie  (American, 1909–1977)

Strange Fruit,  1946

oil painting on canvas, 45.7 x 55.8 cm

Private Collection img source © 2021 İSTANBUL SANAT EVİ

...Abercrombie and poet Gwendolyn Brooks shared a concern about the horrors of lynching. Abercrombie’s 1946 painting, “Charlie Parker’s Favorite Painting,” was originally titled “Strange Fruit” after the song Billie Holiday recorded in 1939; it shows an eerie scene where a lynching looms.(Brooks wrote a lament titled “The Ballad of Pearl May Lee” about a woman whose lover was lynched by “a hundred hooting men.”)

[clintcatalyst]

La llamada (The Call, 1961) — Remedios Varo

[artgate-blog]

Eugene Carriere

her mother’s kiss

1899

[icecreamwithjackdaniels]

René Magritte, "La Grande Famille", 1963

[pagansphinx]

Felix Nussbaum (German-Jewish, 1904-1944). Group of Three • 1944 • Deutsches Historisches Museum.

[artistic-illustration]

Mary Magdalene in ecstasy, Artemisia Gentileschi.

[ordosmarkzero]

Victor Brauner, Hypergenese de la reapparition, 1932

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[ahaura]

Odilon Redon (French, 1840–1916) detail of The Beacon (1883) pastel on paper