’t o s k a 2014’ - Reimagining Memories by Lisa Sorgini
“No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness, mental throes, yearning. In particular cases it may be the desire for somebody of something specific, nostalgia, love-sickness.”
- Vladmir Nabokov
Mark Rothko, Untitled, 1949
The Echo of the Vold, 1935
Salvador Dalí
André Masson (French, 1896-1987), La Lune, 1938. Gouache on paper, 50 x 36.4 cm.
Woman with a Head of Roses, 1935
Salvador Dalí
Details of Renaissance Paintings (Sandro Botticelli, Birth of Venus, 1482), 1984
Andy Warhol
Herbert Bayer. Drawing for the architecture photo show in perspective and section 1918-1938. (Berlin Bauhaus archive)
This creepy stairwell statue was located at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC. It’s called Lilith, and was made by Kiki Smith. Smith does very surreal and unnerving art.
“And I’ve Learned to Sleep With One Eye Open (A small series on trust issues and vulnerability and how you ruined me.)” by Lissy Laricchia
A terminal patient enjoys Rembrandt paintings at the Rijskmuseum, Amsterdam, one final time. Photo credit: unknown.