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Image of the Day : Max Ernst Une Semaine de Bonté 3

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  • ernst claims that it was a dream fusion of his sister being born, with the death of his pet bird when he was a child. however, studies show that the timing wasnt accurate. ha, i reckon he did it just to get a bit more credibility. sneaky, sneaky!

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  • Strange .I cant figure out what trend follows that painter?

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  • Showing what is a woman. It’s kinda dark though. The attention to detail and the intricate designs are really good.
    -Angeline

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  • THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS

    by: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)

    HIS is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign,
    Sails the unshadowed main, —
    The venturous bark that flings
    On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings
    In gulfs enchanted, where the Siren sings,
    And coral reefs lie bare,
    Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair.

    Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl;
    Wrecked is the ship of pearl!
    And every chambered cell,
    Where its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell,
    As the frail tenant shaped his growing shell,
    Before thee lies revealed, —
    Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed!

    Year after year beheld the silent toil
    That spread his lustrous coil;
    Still, as the spiral grew,
    He left the past year’s dwelling for the new,
    Stole with soft step its shining archway through,
    Built up its idle door,
    Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more.

    Thanks for the heavenly message brought by thee,
    Child of the wandering sea,
    Cast from her lap, forlorn!
    From thy dead lips a clearer note is born
    Than ever Triton blew from wreathèd horn!
    While on mine ear it rings,
    Through the deep caves of thought I hear a voice that sings: —

    Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul,
    As the swift seasons roll!
    Leave thy low-vaulted past!
    Let each new temple, nobler than the last,
    Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast,
    Till thou at length art free,
    Leaving thine outgrown shell by life’s unresting sea!

    Our human life is a journey from the acorn to the oak, from birth to death, expanding ever outward into larger understandings of the world and our place in it, until we no longer need our shells as our spirit unwinds from the body into the unchambered ocean of reality.

    Jill Fallon

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  • “Si ce sont les plumes qui font le plumage,
    ce n’est pas la colle qui fait le collage.”
    Max Ernst

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  • this picture is very gloomy but shows reality of woman life. This woman in picture, it seems, is prisoned. Her real self is amputedand different ugly masks are imposed upon her.

    I do not want to see this anymore

    love
    SMITA

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  • She looks like she is not going to give up -maybe she is hiding herself in a sense from shame or abuse ..but the more we unveil -the more we learn about selves …Blessings Tania

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  • People wear many masks…when the most beautiful one is hidden inside..
    I wander why?

    love
    Agnieszka

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  • Shells, an octapus, grapes, shadow behind the figure (so there is a sun also), a headless woman body, a woman’s head with the health symbol underneath it…what I see is a headless warrior…in the sea..trying to go out in the light..the head searches for the body, and the body searches for the right head…The grapes may show the warrior is a queen..trying to win her king’s heart..

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  • Unfortunately at the moment I can’t catch what it is.

    It’s so difficult, because I am hanging with my claws headfirst on the ceiling,watching the display with my owl-eyes backwarts.
    It is also not easy for me to write this comment, because of my tentaculated hands - they are very hard to coordinate!
    And there are everywhere these little double-winged daemons with wolf-heads flying around me and try to annoy me - but they will not be able to impress me much!

    But besides that, dear Paulo, I am alright and feeling wonderful!

    Ihhhhh! What’s that? The room fills slowly up with water and snakelike ogres try to catch me!

    Shit, my computer crashes now!

    Good night, sleep well and have nice dreams…

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  • What i see is a woman , naked, that is hiding..maybe she s feeling ashamed..But why feeling shame? Our body is the manifestation of ourselves in this material physical world..Our body is our soul’s abode..it is our vehicle to go further on our road to our Myth..

    On the left, i see a serpent..this little girl has a tale..

    SO maybe this woman is Eve after all..After she has eaten the forbidden fruit..
    (and a joke, maybe this was grapes.. ;) )

    Love and Graditude
    Annie

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  • Interesting picture.I saw some of Max Ernst in the internet. Some I like very much, some..I do not understand. To be honest I do not understand ’surrealistic’ art.
    LOVE,
    Thelma.

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  • The meaning of this dream could be archetypal, but the real meaning is probably hidden in his personal subconsious mind, so only he himself can unravel the deeper meaning.

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  • People always try to find a deeper meaning in a work of art. Perhaps this guy was in a certain state of mind because of drugs or alcohol. Or both for that matter.
    In fact, it is possible to have dream immages like these without there being something wrong with your mind.

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  • What about the shell and squid on her face? And is that an angel wing on her left side? I have to admit that I don’t understand. What is the artist trying to say?

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  • Anneliese Flores Clar

    another cone, see what seems grapes at the lower left too, under the sacred geometry drawing, cones and waves.

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  • Anneliese Flores Clar

    I think it’s got to do with sacred geometry. I see a lot of cone shapes. Probably he just wanted to draw people’s attention to the diferent ways cone shapes have been used through creation. I also notice waves, in the woman’s hair the sea animal, the hair in the little head on what seems a pencil on the lower left, a pencil, definetely sacred geometry.

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  • What is it with this guys dreams! I have never ever had images like this in my dreams. Gloomy, gloomy, gloomy.

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