[Image: N.C.Wyeth, 'The Opium Eater', 1913 ( Read more... )

[Image : Nicolai Kalmakoff (1873 - 1955), ‘The Apparition’ (undated ( Read more... )

[Image : Nymphaea caerulea, also known as the Blue Egyptian Water Lily, was painted by Peter Henderson for Dr. Robert John Thornton's The Temple of Flora (1798-1807). Joseph Constantin Stadler was the engraver: aquatint, mezzotint, and stipple engravings finished by hand ( Read more... )

[Image: Circe, Franz von Stuck, circa 1913 ( Read more... )

[Image: René Magritte, 'The Lovers', 1928]

Life is an unrehearsed process. One is placed within it with little instruction. At every moment, choices are made out of necessity. Often, the results of those choices are both unfortunate and irrevocable. Only in dreams can we hope to go back to the very moment when Fate took away our Love, or our ( Read more... )

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bousingots

The Bousingots/ Frénétiques of the 1830’s (among them Théophile Gautier, Gérard de Nerval, Xavier Forneret, Aloysius Bertrand, etc.) were not merely content to shock, but were truly interested in using art and artifice of the highest order to do so; not mere sensationalistic hack-work. But even here, ( Read more... )

[Image: Le Mime Debureau : 'Pierrot Voleur', par Nadar, 1854]

The character of Pierrot comes to us from antiquity. Some sources trace his existence back 4000 years to present day Turkey in Asia Minor. He is, perhaps, most well-known as a stock character from the Italian Commedia dell’arte. He is the ‘son of the moon’; a white-faced, sad ( Read more... )

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I find his poems to be an amalgam of the mournful, lovelorn work of John Dowland, mixed with the very best of the English Décadents. He is tasteful and always has an eye toward harmonious aesthetics within his poems, which makes them all the more devastating, considering their fatal tone.

XXXVI. "A cut rose set in water, poor sick ( Read more... )