The journal
A curated selection from the Moniqs archive, newest first. More stories are being moved over from the original site.
Art · Reflection
“The Way of Silence” (1900-1903) by Frantisek Kupka (1871-1957) According to Audrey Wagtberg Hansen in her article “Cold Gods and Fatal Women. “The Many Faces of the Sphinx in the 19th Century”, Kupka’s Way of Silence was “inspired by the poem Dream-land by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-
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“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish it’s source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishing.” Anais Nin
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~ The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word. ~ Mata Hari
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“A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.” Gustav Mahler
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“Abstract art places a new world, which on the surface has nothing to do with ‘reality,’ next to the ‘real’ world.” Wassily Kandinksy 1866-1944
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Portrait of Charly Elizabeth Leonardi Argentina
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Daylight and twilight by Wilhelm List (1900)
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EDWARD STEICHEN (b Luxembourg, 27 March 1879; d West Redding, CT, 25 March 1973). American photographer, painter, designer and curator of Luxembourgeois birth. Steichen emigrated to the USA in 1881 and grew up in Hancock, MI, and Milwaukee, WI. His formal schooling ended when he
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¿Qué misterio se esconde tras la puerta? ¿Tu corazón está sellado y triste? La sombra que se esconde tras la luz Evoca una nostalgia de colores, Nostalgia de palabras que has perdido Una tarde de invierno y de violines. Pero hay luz que ilumina enaltecida Tus ojos de Gioconda Y e
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“Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don’t know how” Gloria Swanson
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“The Kreutzer Sonata” Rene Prinet “In our day marriage is only a violence and falsehood” Leo Tolstoy
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“Fair Helena, who more engilds the night Than all yon fiery oes and eyes of light” Midsummer Night’s Dream by Shakespeare Illustration by Arthur Rackham
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