Jodie Foster

gisants of Catherine de’ Medici and Henry II

by Germain Pilon

The Octopus at Home

by Rambharos Jha

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“Here is the octopus in its habitat, the ocean. I have tried to capture the ocean in lines: its restless movement, the ebb and flow of its tides, the waves that billow and fall over each other, and its sheer depth. So my lines stream in different directions, curving, circling and reaching out. I have shown the octopus with its meal tray - clams, starfish, scallops and sea urchins. There are probably many other things it clutches, before it puts them in its mouth.”

Collect Raindrops - The Seasons Gathered

Book of art by Nikki McClure

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Satanna

by Vicente Alcazar, 1976

Satanna

by Vicente Alcazar, 1976

art by José ‘Pepe’ Gonzalez

Madame Jeantaud at the mirror

by Edgar Degas, circa 1875

Rangers of Freedom Comics #1 (October 1941)

cover art by Dan Zolnerowich

That ev'n my buried ashes

illustration by Willy Pogany for The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

Octavia Skulls

by Mike Hoffman

The Protector

by Ken Kelly, 1986

Wir Atomkinder (We Atomic Children)

by H. R. Giger, 1964

Waterwheels

by Hokusai

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This sketch is practically self-explanatory as to what Hokusai meant to represent even though one may doubt the accuracy of the drawing in such details as that of the rope’s staying miraculously attached to the X-shaped spokes and the stream’s appearing to continue right under the lowest wheel, thus making meaningless the man’s labor. The man is evidently supposed to be lifting water from the river into his paddy field.

The significance of the float which dangles into the water from the bamboo pole in the upper reaches of the stream is not clear: perhaps it represents a way of making scarecrows active enough to be effective, always a very real problem in a country like Japan, where both bird and man are so very dependent upon rice for their daily sustenance.