Woman Combing/Braiding/Arranging/Caressing her Hair

Originally published in 2009. Revised on 28 May 2024. This is a post about pictures depicting a woman / women

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Edvard Munch (1863-1944)

This post is long overdue. Munch is one of my favorite artists. In this post I put together some of

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Edvard Munch: Alpha og (and) Omega

“Sickness and insanity were the black angels that guarded my cradle” Edvard Munch, personal manuscript. Background Edvard Munch is one of

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Abyss – The Loss of the Face

“If you stare long enough into the abyss, the abyss will stare back at you” Friedrich Nietzsche …the face is

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Painting the Human Body and Flesh

Back in 1995 I visited an exhibition of the late period Degas in the National Gallery of London. Among the

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A Kiss is just a kiss, or is it something else?

The question of the title is not rhetorical. The kiss is one of the vehicles to supercede one’s one material

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