#woman with snakes

[diana-andraste]

Woman with snakes, c. 1930

Curious image showing two snakes in a bathtub, a woman caressing them: it is probably Mademoiselle Dorita, snake charmer, who was notably photographed in 1930 by Man Ray for a famous cover of the magazine Vu.

The image is reproduced in the catalog of the surrealist exhibition of 1938 at the Galerie des Beaux- Arts in the section "la femme surréaliste" as well as in the album Eluard de la Pléiade. Some defects.

Handwritten note in pencil on the back: "Dali. NY Surrealist Exhibition."

[timelesslords]

thinking about how the hunger games were designed to prove that without society, order, government, someone to rule, we devolve into little more than animals, and how the games themselves prove over and over again that this is not true. We see it in every single game we witness.

Katniss placing flowers around Rue's body in the arena. Thresh sparing Katniss because she was kind to Rue, even though he was making it that much harder for himself to win.

Haymitch going back for Maysilee after hearing her scream even though their alliance had been broken. Haymitch holding her as she dies the same way Katniss did Rue.

Coral's "I can't have killed them all for nothing" when she realizes she's not going home. Lamina cutting down Marcus at great personal risk. And, my favorite moment in tbosas, Reaper collecting the bodies of his fellow tributes, his peers, even the ones who tried to kill him, into a pile. Taking the weapons from their hands. Closing their eyes and crossing their arms in the best approximation of a proper burial he can manage, covering them with the Capitol flag as a makeshift shroud.

The Games bring out the worst in people, yes. But despite the extreme circumstances, despite the exterior pressure of the Capitol, despite the fact that it could mean pain and heartbreak and death, it also shows that people have an enormous capacity for goodness. That even in a situation purposefully designed to make empathy impossible, people can't help but have it anyway.

Snow looks at the Games and all he can see is what's inside himself-- this pure animalistic drive to conquer and defeat. He kills and it feels good and he thinks that everyone else must feel that way too. He doesn't realize (maybe can't realize) that he is the exception, not the rule. He cannot see outside himself, outside his own warped perspective, to realize that the fact that people do show humanity in the games proves his entire worldview wrong.

[detailedart]

Details: Lilith and the Serpent, by A.J. Hamilton.

[danyllura]

The capitol callously watching and commentating on the hunger games as defenceless children are subjected to horror and death but standing up and gasping in horror at Reaper ripping down the flag. Reaper laying the bodies of the murdered children to rest and looking to the camera asking for acknowledgment of their suffering only to be cut off and for the only reaction of horror mustered from the capitol citizens coming from the news of the death of one of their own. The Hunger Games will never not successfully act as a horrifying mirror to the atrocities in our world.

[iztea]

medusa and the blind woman 👁🐍

[themapisonfire]

I realize I never put together a post with some of the Magdoline drawings that happened over the past couple years.

[boomartist]

Mei’s “diet”

[merinataura]

[stanford-photography]

Medusa Print By Jeff Stanford, 2024 Buy prints at: https://jeff-stanford.pixels.com/

[antikristvs]

[deadscell]

say goodnight to him please

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Salvador Viniegra (1862-1915) "The First kiss of Adam and Eve" (1891) Located in the Museo Del Prado, Madrid, Spain

[yuripira4e]

trying to explain to other otasune fans that snake is NOT the one with internalized homophobia in their coupling

[oliviersilven]

MEDUSA DANCE

Sketch+Cintiq+Photoshop. TUMBLR: http://oliviersilven.tumblr.com/ All Artwork Copyright Olivier SILVEN.

[zegalba]

Pierre Amédée Marcel-Beronneau Woman with a Snake (1906)

[boomartist]

New snake new snake