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Quiet, Reposed

Quiet, Reposed

The Fetish of Silence

Gauguin and Decadence:
The Femme Fragile & the Fin-de-Siècle

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nottheredbaron:

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
Mary Magdalene in the Desert, 1869
canvas, oil

nottheredbaron:

El Greco
Mary Magdalene in Penitence, 1577
oil, canvas
157 x 121 cm

nottheredbaron:

Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Mary Magdalene, 1877
oil, canvas

Tori Amos
MaryEverybody wants something from youEverybody want a piece of MaryLush valley all dressed in greenJust ripe for the pickingGod I want to get you out of hereYou can ride in a pink MustangWhen I think of what we’ve done to youOh, Mary, can you hear meGrowing up isn’t always funThey tore your dress and stole your ribbonsThey see you cry, they lick their lipsBut butterflies don’t belong in netsOh Mary, can you hear meMary, you’re bleedingMary, don’t be afraidWe’re just waking upAnd I hear help is on the wayMary, can you hear meMary, like Jimi saidMary, don’t be afraid’Cause even the windEven the wind cries your nameEverybody wants you sweetheartEverybody got a dream of gloryLas Vegas got a pin-up girlThey got her armed as they buy and sell herRivers of milk are running dryCan’t you hear the dolphins cryingWhat’ll we do when our babies screamFill their mouths with some acid rainOh Mary, can you hear meMary, you’re bleedingMary, don’t be afraidWe’re just waking upAnd I hear help is on the wayMary, can you hear meMary, like Jimi saidMary, don’t be afraid’Cause even the wind…Even the wind cries your nameButterflies don’t belong in netsMary, can you hear meMary, you’re bleedingMary, don’t be afraidWe’re just waking upAnd I hear help is on the wayMary, can you hear me?Mary, like Jimi saidMary, don’t be afraid’Cause even the windEven the wind cries your name’Cause even the wind cries your name’Cause even the wind cries your nameCries your nameCries your nameCries your name

nottheredbaron:

Francesco Hayez
Penitent Mary Magdalene, 1825
canvas, oil
118 x 150 cm

artistandstudio:

Paul Gauguin, Alphonse Mucha, Czech painter Luděk Marold and Gauguin’s 13 year old mistress and model ‘Anna the Javanaise’ in Mucha’s studio, Rue de la Grande Chaumière, Paris (c.1893-1894).

fckyeaharthistory:

Gustav Klimt - Portrait of Fritza Riedler, 1906. Oil on canvas

cavetocanvas:

Maurice Denis, Springtime, c. 1897
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art:

With Pierre Bonnard and Édouard Vuillard, Denis was a founding member of the Nabis group in France, active from 1888 to 1899. Denis, the group’s spiritual leader and chief theoretician, called for a new pictorial language in response to the rhythms of nature. In date and sensibility, his work bridges the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and as shown here, he had a firm grasp on modernist thought. He once said, “Remember that a picture, before being a war horse, a female nude, or some anecdote, is essentially a flat surface covered with colors assembled in a certain order.”Springtime, a double-sided canvas, describes a purification scene set deep in the forest of Saint-Germain, near Paris. Several pairs of young women-representing the sacred and the profane-blend into a bucolic landscape where one of them stands nude in a stream. Denis draws a parallel between the flowering sapling in the center (a symbol of spring, renewal, and Easter) and the maidens.

labellefilleart:

Madame Gautreau Drinking a Toast, John Singer Sargent

Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.

— Paul Klee (1879–1940)

(Source: flommus)

cavetocanvas:

Maurice Denis, Virginal Spring (Flowering Apple Trees), 1894

a-r-t-history:

Caspar David Friedrich, Moonrise over the Sea, 1822, oil on canvas

cavetocanvas:

Maurice Denis, April (Easter Morning), 1891

nottheredbaron:

Alphonse Mucha
Spirit Of Spring, 1894
canvas, oil
66 x 41 cm

nottheredbaron:

Edouard Manet
Young woman among the flowers, 1879
canvas, oil

nottheredbaron:

Edward Burne-Jones
Hesperus. The Evening Star, 1870