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Loie Fuller
Posted by J. Quigley in 20th Century, Culture, Dance, drawings, Form, Modern Dance, Photography, Poetry, Women on February 5, 2012
Loie Fuller dancing with her veil, 1897
Photograph by Isaiah West Taber (1830-1912)
(C) RMN (Musée d’Orsay) / Michèle Bellot
Koloman Moser
Fuller depicted by Koloman Moser (1901)
“to Odette”
Fair white swan of mystic night
singing me wave upon wave
of moonlight
you spin and white lace encircles you
spirals of echoing light
a rapid bouree to a moonbeam
and the cold calculating scent of morning
hangs like icicles from your breath
caress me gently, my dove,
kiss me!
– the cold still kiss of night
of death
(a wane hand upon my shoulder now)
embrace
a circle of lines
a symmetry of passion
ending in arabesque
your converging planes
form a portal to my soul
love, fair, sweet swan of love!
-(c) 1998 Gustav BenJava
Posted by J. Quigley in People, Photography, Reblogs, Women, Women Artists on January 31, 2012
This fascinating photography post comes from http://www.chicquero.com. All of these nature prints combined with the female figure symbolize the connection with women and nature…mother earth. I find these photos quite lovely.
Cecilia Paredes was born in Lima, Peru.
The photography of Paredes constitutes and attempts to demonstrate that the body of the women – her own body – is a sacred zone, not profane, to restore its perception as something miraculous amidst the technological chaos that currently surrounds us.
Cecilia is interested in using art to explore the boundaries of nature. As a photographer, she often uses her own body as a medium for presenting a dialog between the spirit and the natural world. Working with her assistants, she creates photo performance based works that have her seamlessly blended into backgrounds. Acting as both the photographer and the subject, she uses make-up, body paint and any costume she needs to make her virtually disappear.
Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we…
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Portrait withTattoos
Posted by J. Quigley in art, Meret Oppenheim, Photography, Surrealism, Women, Women Artists on June 6, 2011
Meret Oppenheim, Portrait (Photo) mit Tätowierung, June 1980
[Portrait with Tattoos]from : Patricia Allmer (ed.), “Angels of Anarchy – Women Artists and Surrealism” (Prestel, 2009)
Yin Yang 
