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and with a sublimity that comes from its simple existence, not from its significance

In 1897, Klimt together with his Viennese fellow artists founded the Vienna Secession, a splinter group separated from the officially accepted conduct for artists under the motto: “To the times its art, to the art its freedom”

‘You know, if one were a Frenchman, or dead, or a pervert – best of all, a dead French pervert – it might be possible to enjoy life!’

“Eroticism lies in the possibility of a movement. It belongs to the realm of the dream.”

Jean-François Somain

When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it is your world for a moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want it or not.”

– Georgia O’Keeffe

“When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it is your world for a moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want it or not.”

– Georgia O’Keeffe

frescos for theatres.

dress and the drape lasted into classical and Hellenistic Greece, femininity was suppressed with cloth bands that flattened chest and hips. Androgyny, which some attribute to the homosexual values of Greek civilization, governed the silhouette. The Hellenistic woman was completely covered up, her sexuality hidden under the folds of the chiffon.

By the late Middle Ages, a period marked by serious epidemics of the plague, the round belly and its navel were appreciated as symbols of fertility and hope for a de-populated Europe.

Beginning in 1770 the whalebone