On many such paintings the devil seems to be asking for more stomping and piercing please, which makes sense when you think about it, he's the devil, he's all about that delicious delicious pain.
As Arendt wrote, "the horrible can be not only ludicrous but outright funny."
The quote is from "Ubu Cuckolded", in a translation by Cyril Connolly.
"We are moved to meditation. The sphere is the perfect form; the sun is the perfect planet, and in us nothing is more perfect than our head, always uplifted toward the sun and aspiring to its shape - except perhaps the human eye, mirror of that star and cast in its likeness." Ubu 👀 Max Ernst
"Will you not tell her that my trembling heart Was with such power captured by her eye My body's but a husk all dead and dry, If from her own I draw nor life nor light?" Marguerite de Navarre, "The Heptameron" 🖼️ Jean Clouet, portrait of Marguerite de Navarre
Let's say that when entertaining guests, you'd be wise not to serve them horsemeat, lest half of them push their plate away in disgust and start calling you names. Horsemeat remains available, but since its consumption is increasingly controversial, people who eat it tend to do so privately.
Less and less so. Horse butcher shops were a fairly common sight when I was growing up (my mother rarely made steaks tartares, but when she did she always used horse meat). That was in the 90s though, and since then the number of horse butcher shops have plummeted. In Paris, there's only one left.
Brilliant recontextualizing often makes visible what we can't otherwise see. Especially in this media environment. www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
The chaotic face-off between Trump and Harris added to concerns over the state of US democracy.
Translation by L. J. Gardiner