Zeus Leonardo

The Choice of Evil        © Marilyn Kirsch Abstract Painting and Photography by Marilyn Kirsch

Glass bottle shaped like a date, Greek and Roman Art

Edward C. Moore Collection, Bequest of Edward C. Moore, 1891 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Glass

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/245683

Florence Henri (Swiss, 1893–1982) Composition Nature Morte, 1939-5

In your two arms rocking I am  quietly In my two arms rocking you are  quietly In your two arms I am a child,  listening. In my two arms you’re the child, I’m  listening With your arms you hold me tight when  I am scared With my arms I hold you tight and  I’m not scared In your arms even the silence  of death won’t  frighten me. In your arms I’ll fall through death  as though falling through a dream.

Forough Farrokhzad - To my sister

Sister, rise up after your freedom, why are you quiet? rise up because henceforth you have to imbibe the blood of tyrannical men.

Seek your rights, Sister, from those who keep you weak, from those whose myriad tricks and schemes keep you seated in a corner of the house.

How long will you be the object of pleasure In the harem of men’s lust? how long will you bow your proud head at his feet like a benighted servant?

How long for the sake of a morsel of bread, will you keep becoming an aged haji’s temporary wife, seeing second and third rival wives. oppression and cruelty, my sister, for how long?

This angry moan of yours must surely become a clamorous scream. you must tear apart this heavy bond so that your life might be free.

Rise up and uproot the roots of oppression. give comfort to your bleeding heart. for the sake of your freedom, strive to change the law, rise up.

Happy 88th, Otar Iosseliani.

With Michel Piccoli in 2012. Photo by Fabio Lovino.

Hong Sang-soo

- Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors

2000

Pamela Singh, Chipko Women Hug Tree to Protect it from Being Cut in Northern Uttar Pradesh, 1994

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Hannah Höch with Raoul Hausmann • Self Portrait 1919