Monday, February 16, 2009

Morbid Preoccupation


"La Belle Rosina" by Antoine Wiertz 1847

"While seeking out the dead I see nothing but the living."
~ Honoré de Balzac

Look at her voluptuous nudity. The childlike gaze of curiosity. The contrast of spindly skeleton to velvety flesh. Is is death that mocks life or life that mocks death?

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