Painters [*/ ) Flowers and Fruits | Kokei Kobayashi, 1883-1957
Kokei Kobayashi, Fruit, 1910 Kokei Kobayashi, Fruit, 1930s Kokei Kobayashi, Red Painting Kokei Kobayashi, Fruits and Flowers, 1938 Kokei Kobayashi,...
1910s
At Night | Franz Kafka, 1917-19
Agnes Martin, Kyrie, 1962 "Deeply lost in the night. Just as one sometimes lowers one's head to reflect, thus to...
Days [ ) Remembrance | Marcel Proust, 1913
Antonio Mora, Nobody Knows Me “Remembrance of things past is not necessarilythe remembrance of things as they were.” Marcel Proust,...
It’s Raining | A poem by Guillaume Apollinaire, 1916
Guillaume Apollinaire, Il Pleut, Calligrammes, 1916 its raining womens voices as if they were dead even in memoryits raining you...
Δροσιά τοῦ πόνου | Γεώργιος Δροσίνης, 1915
Pierre Mignard, Lady holding a dish of pearls, 17th ce (detail) Δροσιά τοῦ πόνου κρυφογέννητηΒγῆκε στὸ φῶς κ’ ἔγινε δάκρυΚ’...
Book//mark – Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays | G.K. Chesterton,1917
G.K. Chesterton / Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays, 1917 "In all popular narratives, the king, if he is a...
On [:] Accustom | Guillaume Apollinaire, 1913
Marcel Duchamp, Apolinère Enameled, 1916-17 “People quickly grow accustomed to being the slaves of mystery.” Guillaume Apollinaire, The Cubist Painters,...
Prayer | A poem by Fernando Pessoa, 1913
Jack Tworkov, Idling, 1969 Our lady of Useless Tears,Thine is my heart's best shrine.I am sick with the gorging years,I...
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird | A poem by Wallace Stevens, 1917
Derrick Greaves, Black Bird / Red Beak, 2008 IAmong twenty snowy mountains,The only moving thingWas the eye of the blackbird....
Circus | Paintings by August Macke, 1910-13
August Macke, Circus, 1913 August Macke, Circus, 1910 August Macke - Circus Artists, 1911 August Macke, Tightrope walker, 1913 August...