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Swan

mistressofavalon

About Me


Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. (Plato)
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Time has demanded it's sacrifice...
After thousands of burned books
And the murder of uncounted wise women and men
One should think that
The age of innocence has gone...
Beyond the seas of oblivion
Lie the mountains of wisdom
As old as the bones of the earth,
As cold as ice, as pure as snow
Dive the seas of oblivion
To reach the mountains of wisdom
Flee the caves of ignorance
And set yourself forever free
Here, at the heart of the earth
My spirit rests
In the embrace of time
As old as the bones of the earth
(Dargaard)

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Prayer for Liberation of Brother & Sister Animals
"NON-VIOLENCE leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we STOP HARMING all the living BEINGS, we are still SAVAGES."
(Thomas Edison, inventor)

My Interests

Painting:
Specially Simbolism (Gustave Moreau, Jean Delville, Franz von Stuck, Odilon Redon and others), Realism, The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (and it..s followers) above all (John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt, J. W. Waterhouse, Evelyn De Morgan, Edward Burne-Jones, Frank Dicksee and all the others somehow related to it)... yes, I love the nineteenth century painting. Also very into Naturalismo Tenebrista and Expressionism (Egon Schiele, Rouault, Chagall etc. ), Bouguereau, Alma-Tadema, Eliseu Visconti, Rodolfo Amoedo, Délacroix, Gêrome, Rembrandt, Rubens, El Greco, Caravaggio, Artemisia Gentileschi, José de Ribera, Mikhail Vrubel, Jacek Malczewski, Velázquez, Salvador Dalí, Klimt, Alphonse Mucha, Emile Fabry, Matthias Grünewald, Dürer, Hieronymus Bosch, Hans Holbein (the young), Jan Van Eyck, etc. And amongst my contemporaries: Odd Nerdrum, Lucian Freud, Claudio Bravo, Iman Maleki, Yuqi Wang, Han Wu Shen, Jacob Collins, David Stoupakis, Michael Hussar Jenny Saville, Shawn Barber...

Photography
Sculpture
Engraving (especially William Blake and the Expressionists)
Visual Arts in general
Tattoos
Poetry
Literature
Music
Cinema
Puppet Theatre
Dance
Theatre
Philosophy
Art History
History, "surtout" Ancient, Medieval and Renascence History
Mythology
Occultism
Esoterism
Tarot
Astrology
Astronomy
Psicology
Languages, cultures and civilizations
Antropology
Vegetarianism
Animal Protection
Quantum physics
etc....

I'd like to meet:



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Music:

80s
Post-punk
Gothic-Rock
Death Rock
ColdWave
NewWave
Batcave
Synthpop
Futurepop
EBM Industrial
Aggrotech
Medieval
Folk,
Classical
Oriental, Slavic and Gipsy music

Clan of Xymox, Claire Voyant, Joy Division, Ethiopia, Dargaard, Cabine C, Plastique Noir, Raul Seixas, The Smiths, 45 Grave, Christian Death, Glis, La Peste Negra, Siouxie and the Banshees, Eternal Afflict, Crimson Muddle, Tamtrum, Noir désir, Red Zebra, Deadchovsky, Grendel, Mephisto Walz, Alien Sex Fiend, Zbigniew Preisner, Gorgonas, Naughty Zombies, Sisters of Mercy, Rozz Williams, The Merry Thoughts, Cinema Strange, Loreena McKennit, Corvus Corax, Faun, Death in June, Klaus Nomi, Specimen, Sopor Aeternus, Lacrimosa, Chopin, Two Witches, Trisomie 21, Serge Gainsbourg, The Fields of the Nephilim, Tchaikovsky, Jacques Brel, Edith Piaf, Le..rue Delashay, Assemblage 23, Angels & Agony, António Variações, Adriana Calcanhoto, Mozart, Covenant, Coldreams, Rita Lee, Devendra Banhart, Fiona Apple, Clair Obscur, Nick Cave, Mary Moor, EVA, Advanced Art, Mutantes, Noel Rosa, Beethoven, Blutengel, Culture Kultur, Depeche Mode, Chico Buarque, Noctívagus, Namnambulu, The Cure, Neuroticfish, Paganini, Lobão, Bauhaus, Corpus Delicti, The Anorexic Juliet, Agonoize, Amduscia, Hocico, London After Midnight, Phantom Vision, Combichrist, Frozen Plasma, Billy Idol, Poesie Noire, VNV Nation, The Cruxshadows, etc...

Movies:

TIM BURTON: Corpse Bride
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Vincent
Big Fish
Edward Scissorhands
Sleepy Hollow
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory...
Krzysztof Kieslowski: La Double Vie de Véronique
Trois couleurs : Bleu, Rouge, Blanc

INGMAR BERGMAN: Persona, Autumn Sonata, The Seventh Seal, The Virgin Spring......
TARKOVSKI: Solaris, The mirror......
ALMODÓVAR: La Mala educación
Todo sobre mi madre
Hable con ella
Entre tinieblas.....
FRITZ LANG: Metropolis
"M"
Der Müde Tod........
MURNAU: Faust
Herr Tartüff
Nosferatu.....
Der Golem
Bram Stokers Dracula
Interwiew with the Vampire
Forest Gump
La Reine Margot
Burning in the wind
Dolls
Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain
Run Lola Run
Farewell my Concubine
Schindlers list
Modigliani
Dogville
Matrix
Samsara
Spring Summer Fall Winter... and Spring
The Lord of the Rings
Tropa de Elite
Cidade de Deus
Carandiru
Eternal sunshine of a spotless mind
Pulp Fiction
Kill Bill
Sin City
Irréversible
Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht
Los Amantes del Círculo Polar
The Sin Eater
Memento
Donnie Darko
Being John Malkovich
La vie revée des anges
Fratello sole Sorella luna
A Clockwork Orange
Trainspotting
Wit
eXistenZ,
etc........

Television:

I dont have one

Books:

Art books in general
First principles of Theosophy (Jinarajadasa)
La gnose originelle egyptienne (Jan van Rijckenborgh)
Eliphas Lévi
Dion Fortune
Carlos Castaneda
Osho
H. Blavatsky
Tao Te King
Bhagavad Gita
The mysts of Avalon (M.Z. Bradley)
Du spirituel dans l’art (Kandinski)
Les fleurs du mal(Baudelaire)
Florbela Espanca- poemas
Lira dos vinte anos(Álvares de Azevedo)
Paidéia - A formação do Homem Grego(Werner Jaeger)
George Duby
Jacques Le Goff
etc...

Heroes:

–noun, plural -roes; for 5 also -ros.

1. a man of distinguished courage or ability, admired for his brave deeds and noble qualities.

2. a person who, in the opinion of others, has heroic qualities or has performed a heroic act and is regarded as a model or ideal.

3. the principal male character in a story, play, film, etc.

4. Classical Mythology.
a. a being of godlike prowess and beneficence who often came to be honored as a divinity.
b. (in the Homeric period) a warrior-chieftain of special strength, courage, or ability.
c. (in later antiquity) an immortal being; demigod.

5. hero sandwich.

6. the bread or roll used in making a hero sandwich.

*Hmm it makes me wander....*

My Blog

Vegetarian Quotes

Vegetarian Quotes     "For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love."    &n...
Posted by Swan on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 05:02:00 PST

... Bouguereau and Michelangelo were great abstract artists

This text was taken from http://www.artrenewal.org. It wa snot written by me, so it doesn..t reflect exactly my own ideas, but I can certainly find many interesting points in it.Abstract Art is Not Ab...
Posted by Swan on Sun, 20 Apr 2008 01:46:00 PST

The Philosophy of Animal Rights

FROM: http://www.cultureandanimals.orgThe Philosophy of Animal Rightsby Dr. Tom Regan10 Reasons FOR Animal Rights and Their Explanation     1. Rational2. Scientific3. Unprejudiced4. Jus...
Posted by Swan on Sun, 20 Apr 2008 01:40:00 PST

Kitsch Dogmas

    This text is "borrowed" from a great contemporary norwegian painter called Odd Nerdrum.     "Kitsch as a superstructure for figurative painting was launched at the en...
Posted by Swan on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 11:01:00 PST