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Eyes @tmariis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Some place in the Italian countryside in 1904

"Il Sole" (The Sun) by Italian artist Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo. It's a divisionist painting, which means that the light radiating from the rising sun is divided into thousands of very thin shards of light.

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Eyes @tmariis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yes I know what a dot is in this context, I'm just free associating. Here are the poem and painting in full.

A page from the August 1915 issue of Rogue, with only this poem printed on it:

Houses hold virgins
The door's on the chain

Plumb streets with hearts
Bore curtains with eyes

Virgins without dots
Stare beyond probability

See the men pass
Their hats are not ours
We take a walk
They are going somewhere
And they may look everywhere
Men's eyes look into things
Our eyes look out

A great deal of ourselves
We offer to the mirror
Something less to the confessional
The rest to Time
There is so much Time
Everything is full of it
Such a long time

Virgins may whisper
Transparent nightdresses made all of lace
Virgins may squeak
My dear I should faint
Flutter . . . . . flutter . . . . flutter . . . .
. . . . " And then the man - "
Wasting our giggles
For we have no dots

We have been taught
Love is a god
White with soft wings
Nobody shouts
Virgins for sale
Yet where are our coins
For buying a purchaser
Love is a god
Marriage expensive
A secret well kept
Makes the noise of the world
Nature's arms spread wide
Making room for us
Room for all of us
Somebody who was never
a virgin
Has bolted the door
Put curtains at our windows
See the men pass
They are going somewhere

Fleshes like weeds
Sprout in the light
So much flesh in the world
Wanders at will

Some behind curtains
Throbs to the night
Bait to the stars
Spread it with gold
And you carry it home
Against your shirt front
To . . . . . . . a shaded light
With the door locked
Against virgins who
Might scratch.

A woman takes a walk on the Champs-Elysees. The men have high hats. One of them is looking at the woman, the others are going places, using horse-drawn cars.

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Eyes @tmariis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"See the men pass Their hats are not ours We take a walk They are going somewhere And they may look everywhere Men's eyes look into things Our eyes look out" Mina Loy - Virgins Plus Curtains Minus Dots 🖼️ Louis Anquetin, "Woman at the Champs-Elysées by Night"

The eye of a woman looking through a polka-dotted veil. The eye has blue hues due to make-up.

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Eyes @tmariis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I suppose Renoir was present at the Bal de l'Assommoir, where Manet introduced Moore to Zola (as I just learned from reading George's first letter to Émile). All I could gather from contemporary press reports was that "all the artists of Paris" were there, and also Turgenev.

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Eyes @tmariis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Just a few Renoir works that fit the description

Eyes of a woman dressed in white and wearing a straw hat that casts a shadow over her eyes.

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Eyes @tmariis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Last #caturday of September / First #caturday of October Left: Cornelis van Haarlem, "The Fall of Man" Right: Abraham Hondius, "The Monkey and the Cat"

A monkey hugging a cat in the garden of Eden.

A monkey jumping a cat. The cat's facial expression of pure terror seems straight out of a horror movie. Smoke and fire in the background add to the drama.

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Eyes @tmariis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"Mon cadavre est doux comme un gant Comme un gant fait de peau glacée Et mes prunelles effacées Font de mes yeux des cailloux blancs" Louise de Vilmorin (My corpse is as soft as a glove As a glove made of icy skin And my dull, colorless pupils Make my eyes seem two white pebbles) 📺 Twin Peaks

The white-pebble-looking eyes of Laura Palmer's doppelganger, in the red room, at the end of season 2.

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Eyes @tmariis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Monkey eyes: who painted which? A game. Bruegel the Elder Jean Siméon Chardin Albrecht Dürer El Greco Frida Kahlo Kawanabe Kyōsai Henri Rousseau Janis Rozentāls Anthony van Dyck

Nine pairs of monkey eyes from nine different works of art.

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Eyes @tmariis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"And if I remove my one good eye, position it In a circle made by thumb and index finger, Steady against the page Like a magnifying glass, I insist that all the disorder and odor of The world is there, trapped Between two words" John Latta, Perfect Sentences 📷 John Loengard, Brassaï's Eye (1981)

Close-up black and white photograph of Brassaï's face. His right eye is positioned in a circle made by thumb and index finger.

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Eyes @tmariis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It was meant as an illustration for the ending of the story below. It was acquired fairly recently by the Musée de l'Armée. fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Le_Po%C...

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Le Poète assassiné/Cas du Brigadier masqué, c’est-à-dire le Poète ressuscité - Wikisource

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Eyes @tmariis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"I will not crush the world’s corolla of wonders and I will not kill with reason the mysteries I meet along my way in flowers, eyes, lips, and graves." Lucian Blaga, translated by Don Eulert 🖼️ Gauguin, Still Life with Flowers and Idol

The yellow eye of the idol, which is a figuration of a Polynesian death spirit, lurking behind the corolla of a pale pink flower.

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Eyes @tmariis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

From Men of Maize. In the English translation I found, "los ijares del pensiamento" becomes "the spurs of the mind", which makes no sense to me. In the French translation I'm reading, the senses are the stirrups of thought ("les étriers de la pensée"), which is just as wrong and twice as weird.

The full watercolor. We see that the head is as big as a man, and it sits on a black horse. Blood is coming out of the severed neck. The trail of blood on the ground seems to indicate that the horse is moving backwards.

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Eyes @tmariis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Dos estrellas llevaba el macho cerca de los ijares, temblando al compás de su trotar, y el jinete todas las espuelas del cielo del lado y lado de los ojos, en los sentidos, que son los ijares del pensamiento." Miguel Ángel Asturias 🖼️ Apollinaire, Self-Portrait as a Masked Beheaded Rider

Part of a head with green skin and red hair (evocative of Street Fighter Il character Blanka). The eye is blue. Watercolor, 1916.

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Eyes @tmariis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"One day the answer came before the question. Another night they guessed their eyes' expression by the type of silence in the dark." Wislawa Szymborska, "Golden Anniversary" 🖼️ Rembrandt, "The Jewish Bride"

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Eyes @tmariis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

FRANZ SCHUBERT [sits up, reaches hurriedly for his glasses on the nightstand]: What the fuck??!! TIME-TRAVELLING ALIEN MUSICOLOGIST [brushes plaster dust off his shoulders]: Take me to your Lieder

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Eyes @tmariis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Unamuno and Tintoretto were both born on a 29th of September. They share this birthday with Cervantes, Caravaggio, and yours truly 😉

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Eyes @tmariis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"I was drawn there by your eyes—two luminous stars in the haze of my world. Forgive me, Eugenia, and allow me to call you by this sweet name. Forgive my poetic language. I live in a constant, infinitely poetic state." Unamuno, "Fog" (translation Elena Barcia) 🖼️ Tintoretto - Susanna and the Elders

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Eyes @tmariis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"– Close your eyes. He looks at her tanned face, considers the white eyelids, the half-open lips. – You know something, Anne? I like you better with your eyes closed. – How charming ; why not dead? – Ah...? Who knows." Jean-René Huguenin, "La Côte Sauvage" (my translation) 🖼️ Félix Vallotton

Part of the head of a woman lying naked on a bed. Only one of her closed eyes is visible. Her cheek is red, contrasting with the white eyelid. Her hair is brown.
The painting is called "La Blanche et la Noire" (The white woman and the black woman) and was made in 1913.

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Eyes @tmariis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Olivier saw him, sat by the window, at the edge of the August night, his broad shoulders, his broad forehead bent over the book, reading slowly, scrutinizing the words with his cold microscope eyes — how he likes words! It's what the words name that he doesn't like." Jean-René Huguenin

From "A Man Reading (Saint Ivo?)", workshop of Rogier van der Weyden, 1450. Two downcast brown eyes, bulging veins at the temple.

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Eyes @tmariis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A woman wearing a moretta mask had to hold it over her face by biting a little button on the inside, which rendered her mute.

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Eyes @tmariis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"A languid impulse from the oar Plied by my indolent gondolier Tinkles against a palace hoar, And, hark, response I hear! A lattice clicks; and lo, I see Between the slats, mute summoning me, What loveliest eyes of scintillation, What basilisk glance of conjuration!" Melville, "In a Bye-Canal"

Detail from "Dama con Moretta" (Lady with a Moretta Mask) by Pietro Antonio Rotari (18th century). The mask is a black oval two eye-holes.

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Eyes @tmariis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'll be reading! You seem fluent in 19th century French, but you might not be aware that in 21st century French, "prendre le melon" means to let one's self-esteem inflate disproportionately after a small success. In other words, it means to suffer delusions of grandeur 😉

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Eyes @tmariis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Blue sky over Paris this morning, for the start of the Paris-Versailles race.

A large crowd (25.000 runners) at the foot of the Eiffel Tower (wide angle shot taken from within the crowd)

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Cage @ridiculouscage.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"why would I deceive you?"

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Eyes @tmariis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"I am not cruel, only truthful‚ The eye of a little god, four-cornered. Most of the time I meditate on the opposite wall. It is pink, with speckles. I have looked at it so long I think it is part of my heart. But it flickers. Faces and darkness separate us over and over." Sylvia Plath, "Mirror"

"Room with eye": a photo-montage by Maurice Tabard. 1930.
An empty room with naked walls. A cast iron convector next to an upside-down door. On the wall opposite the convector, a large woman's eye.

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Eyes @tmariis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

One of the most 1999 photographs ever taken was taken in 1929.

What it looks like: a xerox of a promotional photograph for a nu metal/California punk rock band. A man bends over so that his head is closer to the lens than the rest of his body, and makes a funny "psycho" face.

What it really is: a photograph by Maurice Tabard, part of a series called "Human Perspective", printed in in the first issue (may 1929) of Bifur, a French literary magazine

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Eyes @tmariis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Cocteau exhaling, by Lucien Clergue.

Jean Cocteau lying on his back, blowing cigarette smoke. His eyes are covered by prop eyes that evoke the painted eyes of ancient statues. The photo was taken on the set of Le Testament d'Orphée (1959)

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Eyes @tmariis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

From "Le Paon" (The Peacock) by Saint-Pol-Roux. My translation.

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Eyes @tmariis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"Know that poets, whether they like it or not, perform a show from the swaddling cloth box to the shroud box, and that each of these puppets is the sole gardner of the eyes that chase him. Stab them if you can, my eyes will flower again. Your very being belongs to the crowd — and I am Opinion."

Photograph taken by Lucien Clergue on the set of Le Testament d'Orphée (1959). Jean Cocteau is lying on his back, smoking a cigarette. A prop eye covers his real eye, which is closed.

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Eyes @tmariis.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Flaubert, translated by Eleanor Marx During the Bovary trial, this very sentence was presented as evidence by the prosecutor who, after reading it to the court, exclaimed: "To your knowledge, gentlemen, is there in the world a prose more expressive? Have you ever beheld more lascivious a tableau?"

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Eyes @tmariis.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"The cold of the nights made them clasp closer; the sighs of their lips seemed to them deeper; their eyes, that they could hardly see, larger; and in the midst of the silence low words were spoken that fell on their souls sonorous, crystalline, and that reverberated in multiplied vibrations."

Detail from "Blue Lovers" by Marc Chagall. Two lovers kissing. One face properly lit, the other darkened by a blue shadow that makes the eyes at the same time larger and less discernible.

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Eyes @tmariis.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

But would it sound metallic to you if you hadn't learned about the galvanic cell in high school?

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Eyes @tmariis.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The stanza in the original rhyming French: Ô pourpre, emplis mon têt de ton jus précieux, Et lui fais distiller mille pourprines larmes, À tant que, méditant ton sens mystérieux, Du sang trait de mes yeux j'ensanglante ces carmes.

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Eyes @tmariis.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"Fill my head, oh crimson, with you precious juice Make it distill a thousand crimson tears Until, meditating your mysterious meaning, With the blood drawn from my eyes, I redden these songs" Jean de la Ceppède, sonnet 63 Translated by Mary Ann Caws 🖼️ Fra Angelico, Christ Crowned with Thorns

As you'd expect, there's blood streaming down Jesus's brow (from the thorn wounds). But the white of his eyes is also reddened, as if his conjunctiva were inflamed. More likely, his tears have become bloody. His gaze is the gaze of a man in pain, and, in my opinion, of a man in doubt.
Tempera and gold leaf, mid 15th century, attribution to Fra Angelico seems generally accepted as of today.

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Eyes @tmariis.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Yes, sorry I didn't make that clear.

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Eyes @tmariis.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Book covers illustrated with art from the Chronicle of the Nuremberg Carnival (1449 to 1539)

Terry Pratchett, Going Postal
The illustration is a man wearing a costume made of sealed letters.

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Eyes @tmariis.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Ah yes my bad, I just tried it with my own eyes and it seems I'm able to unfocus the background without having an object in the foreground to focus on. Perhaps those who can't are people over 50 whose accommodative power has declined.

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Eyes @tmariis.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Based on what you're saying I would venture to say you do have hypermetropia. When your eyes stop accommodating, everything's a blur. An emmetropic eye does not need to accommodate to sea distant objects clearly, and it cannot "unfocus", it can only choose to focus on some closer object.

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Eyes @tmariis.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"And how the liquid thought of your eyes Sank in my eyes like dew that slips Into the heart of a flower." Edgar Lee Masters, "Paul McNeely", in Spoon River Anthology 🖼️ Georgia O'Keeffe, "Calla Lily on Grey"

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Eyes @tmariis.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"Capitale de la Douleur" came out exactly 100 years ago. It was translated into English in 1973 by Richard M. Weisman.

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Eyes @tmariis.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"The curve of your eyes goes round my heart, A circle of dancing and sweetness, Time’s halo, cradle nocturnal and sure, And if I no longer know all I have lived It is because your eyes have not always seen me." Paul Éluard, "La Courbe de tes Yeux", in Capitale de la Douleur 🖼️ Fernand Léger

Detail from a portrait of Éluard by Fernand Léger, in his distinctive style. A wide red stripe runs across Éluard's face, barring one of the eyes. He is touching his face, as if to make sure of his own existence.

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phoenixrising @mmcarthur.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Hannah Höch : Augen (Eyes), 1967 Collage on card 12.25 × 16.75 in | 31 × 41.5 cm Worthington Fine Art, Chicago

The present work is an outstanding example of Hannah Höch’s arresting collages and her manipulation of imagery. Constructed with expertly spliced photographic paper, the composition consists of three collaged, interlocking eyes at the centre, held together by bright yellow and orange electron-like spirals of photomontage surrounding them. In doing so, she creates a centrifugal composition that spins in disarray, disrupting cyclical forms and reinforcing a chaotic yet purposeful energy to the composition furthermore revealing her fascination and interest in the occult sciences and the biocosmic realm.

By transforming once recognisable images, piecing together bits of published material into one large amorphous form, the present work conveys an interest in abstraction that pervades Höch's mature works. This collage is a testament to the artist's ability to create powerful images that shake up the way one sees the world and art.

Hannah Höch first began experimenting with printed paper alongside fellow artist Raoul Hausmann in 1918. During a trip to the Baltic Sea in 1918, Höch and Hausmann discovered the popular custom of pasting a photograph of one’s own face onto pictures of Prussian soldiers. The practice would lead them to create their first collages, designed to highlight the absurdity and fragmentation within Weimar Germany. Höch’s wry and subversive works soon aligned her with the Berlin Dada group, a circle of predominantly male artists who critiqued German culture and politics following World War I. Höch exhibited in major Dada exhibitions, including the First International Dada Fair in Berlin in 1920.

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