Most recent update: 12th January 2026 This is a post about bathers and bathing in pictures. Jules SCALBERT ( 1851
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Woman Combing/Braiding/Arranging/Caressing her Hair
Originally published in 2009. Revised on 27 May 2025. 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
Continue readingEdvard 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
Continue readingAbyss – 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
Continue readingPainting 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
Continue readingA 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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