Happy Birthday, Salvador Dalí! Illustration from Alice in Wonderland, 1969. Watercolor on paper.
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Chess Set
Designed by Klaus Voormann for Ringo Starr in 1972
Klaus designed this chess set for Ringo Starr, using all different types of hands for the various figures. There are only five of these original sets in existence. They were cast in sterling silver with one side gold plated. Notice the rings on the bishop, king, and queen.
Klaus’s original wax figures had even more detail than the final cast pieces. He said that the pawn, in particular, he had made to look like a real workman’s hand, with rough skin and broken nails, the flesh of the fingers pushed to one side as it would be just before the finger snaps. Some of this detail was not able to be captured with the casting system used.
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Frenzy of Exultations (1893)
Władysław Podkowiński’s best known painting, Frenzy of Exultations (Szał uniesień) was shown at the Zachęta on 18 March 1894. The exhibition was accompanied by an atmosphere of sensationalism and scandal and the painting was violently criticized. The exhibition lasted only 36 days because the terminally ill Podkowinski brought a knife on the 37th day, and slashed his work on display. The reasons for this act are unclear. After his death the painting was eventualling restored.[1]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/b24965a33d404cb42ca12ecf054351fd/tumblr_mgnuqsIFfl1qaz1hso1_500.jpg)
Frenzy of Exultations (1893)
Władysław Podkowiński’s best known painting, Frenzy of Exultations (Szał uniesień) was shown at the Zachęta on 18 March 1894. The exhibition was accompanied by an atmosphere of sensationalism and scandal and the painting was violently criticized. The exhibition lasted only 36 days because the terminally ill Podkowinski brought a knife on the 37th day, and slashed his work on display. The reasons for this act are unclear. After his death the painting was eventualling restored.[1]
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The Couple in Lace by Max Ernst, 1925. Oil on canvas, 101.5 x 142 cm. Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.
I do believe you have a wound too. I do believe it is both specific to you and common to everyone. I do believe it is the thing about you that must be hidden and protected, it is the thing that must be tap danced over five shows a day, it is the thing that won’t be interesting to other people if revealed. It is the thing that makes you weak and pathetic. It is the thing that truly, truly, truly makes loving you impossible. It is your secret, even from yourself. But it is the thing that wants to live.
