The journal
A curated selection from the Moniqs archive, newest first. More stories are being moved over from the original site.
Art · Reflection
“Fairies” Federica Nightingale (b. 1964) is an Italian collagist and poet. What I love most about her works is the magic of it! As if she has transfered her poetry into images. http://www.passionofart.com/FedericaNightingale/my_artworks#gal
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“All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.” Baruch de Spinoza, (1632-1677), Jewish philosopher. His “Tractatus theologico-politico” defends freedom of thought and tolerance. German School. Herzogliche Bibliothek,
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Volaverunt They have flown, Capricho 61 “These are heads so full of volatile gas that they need neither a balloon nor witches in order to fly” The flying beauty and the accompanying commentary refer to the Duchess of Alba, whose fickleness Goya experienced at first hand. Francesc
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“I’m not moaning, nor thinking of moaning, for I believe that no one is richer than he who is content with what he has, and that I am…” Francisco Goya
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“Dreams” 1894 by Aubrey Beardsley (1872 – 1898) “Poor Aubrey: I hope he will get all right. He brought a strangely new personality to English art, and was a master in his way of fantastic grace, and the charm of the unreal. His muse had moods of terrible laughter. Behind his grot
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I’m very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you’re painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge. Jackson Pollock
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Abstract Expressionism was an American art movement in New York City from the mid-1940s to mid-1950s, and was the first specifically American Art movement to establish worldwide influence. It demonstrated the energy and creativity of America in the post-World War II years, and wa
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“Whatever an artist’s personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.” Willem de Kooning
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And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul. Plato
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“The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.” Anais Nin
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We should remember that the fact that most people take but little interest in their dreams is conducive to the forgetting of dreams. Anyone who for some time applies himself to the investigation of dreams, and takes a special interest in them, usually dreams more during that peri
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“I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time.” Calvin and Klein Painting Kees Van Dongen [1877 – 1968] Tango or Tango of the Archangel
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