Alfred Cheney Johnston

Alfred Cheney Johnston. The dancer Evelyn Groves 1927

Alfred Cheney Johnston

Alfred Cheney Johnston. Ziegfeld girl holding a flower 1920

Alfred Cheney Johnston

Alfred Cheney Johnston. The dancer and actress Marilynn Miller 1918

Anna Pavlova

The dancer Anna Pavlova 1900s

Bohnchang koo

Bohnchang koo. In the beginning

Alfred Cheney Johnston

Alfred Cheney Johnston. The actress Norma Shearer 1918

Alfred Cheney Johnston

Alfred Cheney Johnston. From the book Enchanting beauty 1937

Alfred Cheney Johnston

Alfred Cheney Johnston. Ziegfeld girl 1928

Alfred Cheney Johnston

Alfred Cheney Johnston. Ziegfeld girl 1920s

Alfred Cheney Johnston

Alfred Cheney Johnston. The actress Barbara Deane 1920s

Alfred Cheney Johnston

Alfred Cheney Johnston. The actress Helen Lee Worthing 1920

Alfred Cheney Johnston

Alfred Cheney Johnston. The dancer Hazel Forbes 1920s

Alfred Cheney Johnston

Alfred Cheney Johnston. The dancer Olive Brady 1920s

Alfred Cheney Johnston

Alfred-cheney-johnston. The dancer Naomi Johnson 1920s

Alfred Cheney Johnston

Alfred-cheney-johnston. Ziegfeld girl with parrot 1920s

Alfred Cheney Johnston

Alfred Cheney Johnston. Ziegfeld girl 1920s

Alfred Cheney Johnston

Alfred Cheney Johnston. Ziegfeld girl with ball 1920s

Alfred Cheney Johnston

Alfred Cheney Johnston. Ziegfeld girl 1920s

Alfred Cheney Johnston

Alfred Cheney Johnston. Ziegfeld girl with a drape 1920s

Alfred Cheney Johnston

Alfred Cheney Johnston. Ann O’Brien 1920s

Alfred Cheney Johnston

Alfred Cheney Johnston. The actress and dancer Jean Ackerman 1927

Alfred Cheney Johnston

Alfred Cheney Johnston. Untitled 1920s

Alfred Cheney Johnston

Alfred Cheney Johnston. The actress Helen Jesmer 1920s

Alfred Cheney Johnston

Alfred Cheney Johnston. The actress Lina Basquette 1920s

Alfred Cheney Johnston

Alfred Cheney Johnston. The dancer Louise Squire 1920s

Alfred Cheney Johnston

Alfred Cheney Johnston. The actress Norma Shearer 1920s

Alfred Cheney Johnston. The actress Norma Shearer 1920s

Ana Priscila Rodríguez

©️Ana Priscila Rodríguez. The entity 2023

Henri Laurens

Henri Laurens. Dancer 1915. Collage, pencil on paper and gouache

Henri Laurens

Henri Laurens. Dancer 1915

Henri Laurens

Henri Laurens. Woman with fan 1915

Henri Laurens

Henri Laurens. Summary 1916

Henri Laurens

Henri Laurens. Composition 1917

Henri Laurens

Henri Laurens. Seated woman 1950

Henri Laurens

Henri Laurens. Reclining woman with raised arm 1950

Henri Laurens

Henri Laurens. Kneeling woman 1950

Nick Cave

« Once upon a time a wild god zoomed
All through his memory, in which he was entombed
It was rape and pillage, in the retirement village
But in his mind, he was a man of great virtue and courage
And he flew out the window with his long trailing hair
And the smoke from the bodies went straight up in the air
He was a wild god searching, for what all wild god’s are searching for
And he flew through the dying city like a prehistoric bird
He went searching for the girl
Down on a Jubilee Street
But she died in a bedsit in 1993
So he flew to the top of the world and looked around
And said, « Where are my people? »
Where are my people?
To bring your spirit down
A wild god searching for a far away girl
Who was basically a mirage, that nevertheless loomed a-large
She would hang under the rail as he blew around the room
And make love with a kind of efficient gloom
And the people on the ground cried « When does it start? »
And the wild god says « It starts with a heart »
With a heart, with a heart, with a heart
And the people on the ground cried « When does it end? »
And the wild god says « Well, it depends, but it mostly never ends »
‘Cause I’m a wild god flying, and wild god a-swimming
And I’m old sick god dying, and crying
And singing
Oh, wild god’s begging, the wild god’s
Yeah, bring your spirit down
Oh, well he’s moving through the flames of anarchy
And he’s moving through the winds of tyranny
And the sweet, sweet tears of liberty
And moving ’round the world
He’s moving through your body like a prehistoric bird
He’s moving ’round the world
Oh Lord
Well, if you’re feeling lonely, and if you’re feeling blue
And if you just don’t know what to do
Bring your spirit down
Oh, we’re wild god’s baby, we’re wild gods
I’m a wild god, baby, I’m a wild god
Oh, here we go
We’re to the cradle of Africa
We’re going to Russia
We’re going to China
To the United States of America
Yeah, moving ’round the world
Yeah, moving like a great big beautiful bird
Moving ’round the world
Yeah, he-he’s swimming to the end of a rotting pier
He swims to the end of his rotting ideas
Swim to the hymn, swim to the prayer
And bring your spirit down
I’m a wild god, baby, I’m a wild god
Well, here we go
Yeah, here we go. »

Luigi Pirandello

« You will learn at your expense that along your path you will encounter millions of masks and very few face »
(Luigi Pirandello)

Hanns Holdt

Hanns Holdt. The dancer Clotilde von Derp 1914

Nickolas Muray

Nickolas Muray. The actress Judith Anderson 1928

Nickolas Muray

Nickolas Muray. The dancers Berthe and Francesca Braggioti 1922

Nickolas Muray

Nickolas Muray. The actress Myrna Loy 1929

Nickolas Muray

Nickolas Muray. The actress Fania Marinoff 1923

Egon Schiele

Egon Schiele. Seated half nude woman with hands on kneels 1911

Gloria Swanson

The actress Gloria Swanson 1920s

Alfred Cheney Johnston

Alfred Cheney Johnston. The actress Gloria Swanson 1919

Gloria Swanson

The actress Gloria Swanson 1920s

Gloria Swanson

The actress Gloria Swanson 1920s

Karl Struss

Karl Struss. The actress Gloria Swanson 1922

Fernand Khnopff

Fernand Khnopff. Secret 1902

Fernand Khnopff

Fernand Khnopff. The spider woman

Fernand Khnopff

Fernand Khnopff. A dead city 1889

Fernand Khnopff

Fernand Khnopff. Brown eyes and a blue flower 1905

Fernand Khnopff

Fernand Khnopff. Study of a young woman 1912

Fernand Khnopff

Fernand Khnopff. The cigarette 1912

Fernand Khnopff. The cigarette 1912

Fernand Khnopff

Fernand Khnopff. The red lips 1897

Fernand Khnopff. The red lips 1897

Fernand Khnopff. The red lips 1897

Fernand Khnopff

Fernand Khnopff. Melisande 1907

Fernand Khnopff

Fernand Khnopff. Study for the secret 1902

Fernand Khnopff

Fernand Khnopff. Portrait of a woman 1899

Fernand Khnopff

Fernand Khnopff. Nude study 1910

Fernand Khnopff

Fernand Khnopff. The blue curtain 1909

Fernand Khnopff

Fernand Khnopff. Baroness Fernand van der Bruggen 1900

Fernand Khnopff

Fernand Khnopff. Arum lily 1895

Fernand Khnopff

Fernand Khnopff. The sleeping medusa 1896

Fernand Khnopff. The sleeping medusa 1896

Fernand Khnopff

Fernand Khnopff. Acrasia 1892

Fernand Khnopff

Fernand Khnopff. The white mask 1907

Fernand Khnopff

Fernand Khnopff. Woman’s head 1915

Fernand Khnopff

Fernand Khnopff. The offering 1891

Fernand Khnopff

Fernand Khnopff. The silver tiara 1911

Fernand Khnopff

Fernand Khnopff. Woman’s head 1892

Fernand Khnopff

Fernand Khnopff. Clematis 1914

Fernand Khnopff

Fernand Khnopff. Study of a woman 1891

Fernand Khnopff

Fernand Khnopff. Defiance 1893

Fernand Khnopff

Fernand Khnopff. Study of a woman 1892

Fernand Khnopff

Fernand Khnopff. Study of women 1887

Fernand Khnopff

Fernand Khnopff. Portrait of a woman 1891

Henry B. Goodwin

Henry B. Goodwin. The slave 1916

Henry B. Goodwin

Henry B. Goodwin. Dance on mountain 1920s

Henry B. Goodwin

Henry B. Goodwin. Mrs Rosita 1922

Henry B. Goodwin

Henry B. Goodwin. Gerda Waern 1920

Henry B. Goodwin

Henry B. Goodwin. Gerda Waern 1920

Henry B. Goodwin

Henry B. Goodwin. Gerda Waern 1920

Henry B. Goodwin. Gerda Waern 1920

Henry B. Goodwin

Henry B. Goodwin. Astrid Asplund 1916 

Henry B. Goodwin

Henry B. Goodwin. The actress Esther Sahlin 1920s

Henry B. Goodwin

Henry B. Goodwin. Mrs Barclay 1921

Henry B. Goodwin

Henry B. Goodwin. Blanka Liljefors 1920

Henry B. Goodwin. Blanka Liljefors 1920

Egon Schiele

Egon Schiele. Standing couple embracing 1914

Henry B. Goodwin

Henry B. Goodwin. The actress Gabo Falk 1916

Henry B. Goodwin. The actress Gabo Falk 1916

Henry B. Goodwin

Henry B. Goodwin. Portrait of a woman 1914

Henry B. Goodwin

Henry B. Goodwin. The dancer Lisa Steier 1920

Gustav Klimt

Gustav Klimt. Woman with fan 1917-1918

Maurice Maeterlinck

« We must cultivate silence within ourselves, for it is only in it that unexpected and eternal flowers open for an instant, changing shape and color according to the soul we find ourselves next to. Souls weigh themselves in silence, as gold and silver weigh themselves in pure water, and the words we pronounce have meaning only thanks to the silence in which they bathe. » (Maurice Maeterlinck)

Vera Fokina

The dancer Vera Fokina as Cleopatra 1913

Henry B. Goodwin

Henry B. Goodwin. Unknown dancer 1916

Henry B. Goodwin

Henry B. Goodwin. The actress Meggie Albanesi 1922

Henry B. Goodwin

Henry B. Goodwin. The dancer Jenny Hasselqvist as Sheherazade 1918

Henry B. Goodwin

Henry B. Goodwin. Nude study 1920

Henry B. Goodwin

Henry B. Goodwin. The suffragette Ebba Palmstierna 1920

Henry B. Goodwin

Henry B. Goodwin. The suffragette Ebba Palmstierna 1920

Henry B. Goodwin

Henry B. Goodwin. Olive Pasmore 1912

Henry B. Goodwin

Henry B. Goodwin. Carin Bergström 1920