Sacred Allegory

27 July 2024 22:00

The Model in Repose (Le repos du modéle) is an Academic oil on canvas painting created by Albert Joseph Pénot in 1900. It lives in a private collection.

Sacred Allegory

26 July 2024 14:42

__یازده مرداد ۱۳۰۵
__"مادر محزون"

سلام به تو. به تو ای مادر مهجور که برای اینکه خراشی به دست فرزندت نرسد هر دقیقه اندامت می‌لرزید. به تو که تمام نگاهت به من بود. از حرف زدن و راه رفتن من خوشحال می‌شدی. امیدهایت مثل گردنبد به گردن من بسته شده بود. به تو که به انواع زحمات پسرت را بزرگ کردی.
ولی مادر محزون، چرا مرا بوجود آوردی؟
چه فایده دارد بالا بردن بنایی که از فرط بالا رفتن سرنگون می‌شود؟
ابتدا برای یک فکر مبهم بی‌قید شدن بعد از آن خود را و یک موجود ناجور را، که زیاده از حد درد می‌کشد، به زحمت انداختن برای چه مقصودی است؟
ببین کوه‌ها را چه آسوده ایستاده‌اند. ابرها را که چطور بدون دنباله ناپدید می‌شوند.
هیچ موجودی مثل انسان، بدبختی را به انواع وسائل برای خودش تهیه نمی‌کند.
خلاصی از چه راهی‌ست؟

__"دنیا، خانه‌ی من است"، پنجاه نامه از نیما.

Sacred Allegory

26 July 2024 02:22

این بیمارگونگی از کجاست؟ این که انسان از هر حیوان ِدیگر بیمارتر است و دو دل‌تر و دمدمی‌تر و سست‌بنیادتر، شکّی در این نیست او همانا حیوان ِ‌بیمار است. چرا چنین است؟ شکی نیست که او بیش از همه‌ی جانوران دیگر بر روی هم، بیشتر دل به دریا زده و نوآوری کرده و درگیر شده و با سرنوشت درافتاده است؛ او، آن آزمونگر ِبزرگ با خویش، آن ناخرسند، آن سیری‌ناپذیر که بر سر سروری نهایی با حیوان و طبیعت و خدایان در کشاکش است، او که هنوز شکست نخورده است، آن همیشه آینده‌نگر، که از دست ِنیروی زورآور ِخویش آسایش ندارد، آن‌چنان که آینده‌اش همچون نیزه‌ای بی‌رحمانه در تن ِهر اکنونی فرو می‌رود_‌_چه‌گونه تواند بود که چنین جانور ِدلیر و پُرمایه در خطرترین نباشد و در میان تمامی ِجانوران ِبیمار درازتر و ژرف‌تر از همه بیمار نباشد؟
انسان بارها چندان از خود سیر شده است که این سیری بیماری ِفراگیر شده است؛ امّا همین تهوّع، همین خستگی، همین دل‌آشوبه از خود_‌_همگی چنان پرزور از او بیرون زده است که خود همان‌ دم دوباره زنجیری تازه شده است. نه‌ای که به زندگی می‌گوید، همچون وردی جادویی هزار آری ظریف پدید می‌آورد، حتّا آنگاه که این استاد ویرانگری و خود-ویرانگری بر خود زخم می‌زند_همان زخم از آن پس او را به زندگی کردن وا‌می‌دارد.

__ "تبار شناسی اخلاق"، فریدریش ویلهلم نیچه، ترجمه‌ی‌ داریوش آشوری.

Sacred Allegory

26 July 2024 01:08

"The Agony in the Garden" is a Spanish Renaissance oil on canvas painting created by El Greco from 1590 to 1595. It lives at the National Gallery, London in London.

Sacred Allegory

26 July 2024 01:05

"Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata" is a Spanish Renaissance oil on canvas painting created by El Greco from 1585 to 1590. It lives at the The Walters Art Museum in the United States.

Sacred Allegory

26 July 2024 01:00

The Laocoön is a recurring theme among renaissance painters, combining Greek high-drama and violent death. The scene depicts the death of the Laocoön, a Trojan priest of Poseidon.
El Greco’s depiction is a dark one, less classically influenced and trapped by the low clouds he often depicted over his adopted city of Toledo, Spain. The men’s contorted bodies are radically stretched in the Mannerist form, their faces tortured. The Laocoön was El Greco’s only painting of a mythological theme, and its violence and vengeful gods may reference the ravages of the Inquisition, which gripped Spain in the early 1600s.

Sacred Allegory

25 July 2024 23:58

"امیدِ آمدنِ لغتی که نمی‌آید"

آن‌چه زبان می‌خورد
همیشه همان چیزی‌ست
که زبان را می‌خورد:
امیدِ آمدن ِلغتی
لغتی که نمی‌آید
تو آن‌سوتر آن‌جاتر
برابر من ایستاده‌ای
برابر با من
و چهره‌ام
چیزی به آینه از من نمی‌دهد
چیزی از آینه در من می‌کاهد

و انتظار صخره‌ی سرخ
نوکِ زبانِ تو –
امیدِ آمدن ِلغتی‌ست
لغتی که نمی‌آید.

__ یدالله رویایی.

Sacred Allegory

25 July 2024 15:22

Lovers on the bridge by Leos Carax, 1991.

Sacred Allegory

25 July 2024 13:06

Marcel Duchamp began to view the manufactured objects of his collection as objects of art, which he called "readymades". He would add signatures and titles to some, converting them into artwork that he called "readymade aided" or "rectified readymades". Duchamp wrote: "One important characteristic was the short sentence which I occasionally inscribed on the 'readymade.' That sentence, instead of describing the object like a title, was meant to carry the mind of the spectator towards other regions more verbal. Sometimes I would add a graphic detail of presentation which in order to satisfy my craving for alliterations, would be called 'readymade aided.'"[82] One such example of Duchamp's readymade works is the urinal that was turned onto its back, signed "R. Mutt", titled Fountain, and submitted to the Society of Independent Artists exhibition that year, though it was not displayed.

Sacred Allegory

25 July 2024 13:00

Hannah Höch (the only female Dadaist in Berlin at the time of the movement), Cut with the Kitchen Knife through the Last Epoch of Weimar Beer-Belly Culture in Germany, 1919, collage of pasted papers, 90×144 cm, Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.

Sacred Allegory

24 July 2024 22:19

"The Sensual" is a Symbolist oil on canvas painting created by Franz Stuck in c.1891. It lives in a private collection.

Sacred Allegory

24 July 2024 22:16

"Lucifer" is a Symbolist oil on canvas painting created by Franz Stuck from 1890 to 1891. It lives at the National Gallery for Foreign Art, Sofia in Bulgaria.

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24 July 2024 22:09

"Sphinx" is a Symbolist oil on canvas painting created by Franz Stuck in 1904. It lives at the Hessian State Museum, Darmstadt in Germany.

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23 July 2024 14:52

"معنای عطش"

برداشتن‌ات در من سنگینی کرد
برداشتنِ من سنگین بود
برداشتن آب میان لب‌هات
یک‌بار چنان در نوسان آمد
که نام تو را هیجان آب
هم‌راه عطش آورد و نوشت:
تا فاجعه بر چیزهای معمولی
افتاد ابدی‌شان کرد

بر من چه فرود آمد تا برداشتن‌ام را سنگین کرد
برداشتن آب چرا در من سنگین است
شاید هیجان نامِ تو میان آب
معنای عطش ـ شاید ـ این است.

و زائر فریاد خودش را نشناخت، دیوانه شد.

__ یدالله رویایی.

Sacred Allegory

23 July 2024 14:45

Dream by Paul Herrmann, 1914.

Sacred Allegory

26 July 2024 16:16

Sunflower is a 1970 romantic war tragedy film directed by Vittorio De Sica. Starring; Sophia Loren, Mercello Matroianni.

Sacred Allegory

26 July 2024 14:41

"The Werewolf" is a Romantic etching print created by Félicien Rops in 1868.

Sacred Allegory

26 July 2024 01:10

"The Annunciation" is a Mannerist and Spanish Renaissance oil on canvas painting created by El Greco from 1596 to 1600. It lives at the Museo Nacional Del Prado in Spain.

Sacred Allegory

26 July 2024 01:06

"Fábula" is a Spanish Renaissance oil on canvas painting created by El Greco in 1600. It lives at the Museo Nacional Del Prado in Spain.

Sacred Allegory

26 July 2024 01:04

"The Holy Trinity" is a Mannerist oil on canvas painting created by El Greco from 1577 to 1579. It lives at the Museo Nacional Del Prado in Spain.

Sacred Allegory

26 July 2024 00:58

"Laocoön" is a Spanish Renaissance and Mannerist oil on canvas painting created by El Greco from 1604 to 1614. It lives at the National Gallery of Art, Washington in the United States.

Sacred Allegory

25 July 2024 23:25

Hearts can break
And never mend together
Love can fade away
Hearts can cry
When love won't stay forever
Hearts can be that way

Sacred Allegory

25 July 2024 15:22

Lovers on the bridge by Leos Carax, 1991.

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25 July 2024 13:05

Marcel Duchamp (french painter, sculptor, chess player, and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, Dada, and conceptual art), Fountain, 1917; photograph by Alfred Stieglitz.

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24 July 2024 22:24

"Head of Medusa" is a Symbolist pastel painting created by Franz Stuck in c.1892. It lives in a private collection.

Sacred Allegory

24 July 2024 22:18

"Inferno" is a Symbolist oil on canvas painting created by Franz Stuck in 1908. It lives at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

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24 July 2024 22:15

"The Sin" is a Symbolist oil on canvas painting created by Franz Stuck in c.1909. It lives at the Modern Art Gallery Sant'Anna in Italy.

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24 July 2024 22:08

"The Kiss of the Sphinx" is a Symbolist oil on canvas painting created by Franz Stuck in 1895. It lives at the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest in Hungary.

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23 July 2024 14:46

The Shooting Stars by Jean-François Millet.

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20 July 2024 18:51

"Extracting the Stone of Madness"

[PATHS OF THE MIRROR]
(1962)

l.
And, above all, to look on innocently. As if nothing were happening, which is true.

II.
But you I want to look at until your face fades from my fear, like a bird stepping away from the sharp edges of night.

Ⅲ.
Like a girl drawn in pink chalk on a very old wall, suddenly wiped away by the rain.

IV.
As when a flower opens and you see the heart it does not have.

V.
All these gestures by my body and my voice just to turn me into the offering. The flowers the wind has left behind in the door.

VI.
Cover the memory of your face with the mask of who you'll become, and frighten the girl you used to be.

VII.
The night for them has thinned with the fog. It is the season of food gone cold.

VIII.
And thirst. My memory is of the thirst of me, below, in the depths, in the well and that I drank from it, I remember.

IX.
To fall like a wounded animal into a place that was meant for revelations.

Χ.
Like someone not wanting something. Not anything. Mouth sewn shut. Eyelids sewn shut. I forgot myself. The wind inside. Everything shut, and the wind inside.

XI.
Words burnished in the black sun of silence.

XII.
But the silence is certain. This is why I write. I am alone and I write. No, I am not alone. There is someone here who is trembling.

XIII.
Even if I say sun or moon or star, this is still about things that happen to me. And what was it I wanted? I wanted a perfect silence. This is why I speak.

XIV.
The night is shaped like a howling wolf.

XV.
The pleasure of losing yourself in the image foreseen. I rose from my body and went out in search of who I am. A pilgrim of my self, I have gone to the one who sleeps in the winds of her country.

XVI.
My fall that is endless into my fall that is endless, where no one expected me, since when I looked to see who expected me, I saw no thing other than my self.

XVII.
Something falling in the silence. My final word was I, but by this I meant the luminous dawn.

XVIII.
A constellation of yellow flowers draw a circle in the blue earth. The water is rippling, busy with the winds.

XIX.
Dazzle of the new day, the yellow birds in the morning. A hand releases the dark; another drags the hair of a drowned woman who is crossing endlessly through the mirror. To return to the body's memory is to return to my mourning bones, and to grasp what it is my voice says.