Francis Bacon , Blood on the Floor , 1986

Max Ernst , Ci meurent les cardinaux , 1962

Serafino Macchiati , Paul Verlaine, Bibi-la-Purée et Stéphane Mallarmé au café Procope , 1890

Death by William Butler Yeats 

NOR dread nor hope attend
A dying animal;
A man awaits his end
Dreading and hoping all;
Many times he died,
Many times rose again.
A great man in his pride
Confronting murderous men
Casts derision upon
Supersession of breath;
He knows death to the bone —
Man has created death.

Serafino Macchiati , Two Women on the Sofa or Morfinomani (morphine addict) , 1905

Harry Callahan , The Lonely Road

Wilhelm Freddie , Psycho-Photographic Phenomenon - The Fallen of the World War2, 1936

Carrie Ann Baade , Light and Shadow , 2022

Carrie Ann Baade , Hellmouth, 2017

Ed van der Elsken , Chess players, Paris 1950–1954

Oleh Sokolov, Magnetic Storm , 1966

Chaïm Soutine , Dead Fowl , 1926

Marie Bashkirtseff , The Umbrella , 1883

Georgy Kurasov, Chess Players, 2002

Emilio Vilà, Two Nudes, 1925

“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters. “ ~ Antonio Gramsci

“Whenever you are offended, understand that you are complicit in taking offense.” ~ Epictetus

“The body should be treated more rigorously, so that it may not be disobedient to the mind.” ~ Seneca

Remedios Varo , Center of the Universe , 1961