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I saw these in a corner of the Leopold Museum in Vienna last week, after a friend recommended it. Kokoschka commissioned a life-size replica of his lost love, Alma Mahler, from the doll-maker Hermine Moos, based on detailed instructions
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I have a print of this in my bedroom that was my mother’s and used to sit in my parents‘ fireplace in their bedroom when I was little. I find it especially poignant because her print is only a section of the painting that includes the mother and child, and my mother never got to grow old and become the final age. Sometimes the old woman in this painting is interpreted as the remembrance of death, so it not being in her print feels fitting for my mother who so desperately wanted to live to be with her children. it was her birthday yesterday so I felt I had to include it. I also find it meaningful in a way I can’t describe that the only other painting I inherited from her was John William waterhouse’ The Lady of Shallot, another of my favourites, which is also a woman dying.
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Her work is otherworldly and glamorous and I’m constantly inspired by it. The fact that she, one of the most influential surrealists of the 20th century, is commonly remembered only as Picasso’s mistress and the subject of the weeping woman haunts me
Dec 10, 2024
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I recently inherited my grandfather’s CD player and bought this CD at random, not having seen the film. I ended up listening to it every day for several months. It has everything: Angelo Badalamenti’s suspicious chords, grand orchestral parts, Nicolas Cage doing Elvis covers. There is a special thrill to the music being stationary - I can’t listen to it other places because the album doesn’t exist online. My apartment has become this music and the other way around.
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Dozing off in the sun at your usual spot. This place is between our apartments in front of a church, with some big trees surrounding it. It should be a place you cultivate by going to regularly, should feel like home outside.
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A sensuous nightly ritual to finish off whatever you’ve started. It tickles, it crams, it lays you down.
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