The journal
A curated selection from the Moniqs archive, newest first. More stories are being moved over from the original site.
Art · Reflection
James Abbot McNeill Whistler (1894-1903) A Dancing woman in a Pink robe, seen from the back Dance till the stars come down from the rafters Dance, Dance, Dance till you drop. ~W.H. Auden “I love to dance, it does not matter if it is a Tango, a Foxtrot, a Samba or a Jive, just lik
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The true impressionism is realism. So many people do not observe. They take the ready-made axioms laid down by others, and walk blindly in a rut without trying to see for themselves. Childe Hassam Improvisation
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“Artistically I am still a child with a whole life ahead of me to discover and create. I want something, but I won’t know what it is until I succeed in doing it.” Alberto Giacometti
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“Art should startle the viewer into thinking about the meaning of life.” ANTONI TAPIES Barcelona, 1923 – 2012, painter, sculptor. Tàpies eschewed traditional painting materials and championed the use of all sorts of other materials long before arte povera became a fashionable cri
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Medusa” Anthony Frederick Sandys (1829-1904) In Greek Mythology Medusa (Greek: Μέδουσα (Médousa), “guardian, protectress”) was a Gorgon, a cothonic female monster, and a daughter of Phorcys and Ceto; Only Hyginus, (Fabulae, 151) interposes a generation and gives another cohthonic
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“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead.. his eyes are closed.” Albert Einstein
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“Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a deep presentiment of the powers of science.” RALPH WALDO EMERSON Painting “Study for the Magic Circle” John Willem Waterhouse
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Portrait of Martha Graham (1931) Immogen Cunningham (April 12, 1883 – June 24, 1976) was an American photographer known for her photography of botanicals, nudes and industry.
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“The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don’t know the difference between reality and fantasy, when for just that one moment you feel with your entire soul that the dream is reality, and it really happened.” Unknown Pa
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The Many Faces of Fondane: Man Ray made a photographic portrait of Fondane with two heads (right) but Victor Brauner’s oil portrait has Fondane as a beheaded Holofernes. Benjamin Fondane was a Poet, Critic and Filmmaker Fondane (born Benjamin Wechsler in 1898, and murdered in Aus
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Ophelia (second version) 1863 Arthur Hughes (1832-1915) Ophelia in literature Russian novelist Fyodor Dostojevski , in the first chapter of his 1880 masterpiece The Brothers Karamazov, described a capricious young woman who committed suicide by throwing herself off a steep cliff
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Creative people are stifled somehow by domesticity. They need to have late nights and bad mornings. Jack Vettriano The Letter by Jack Vettriano
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