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Marissa Blood

My memories are like coins in the devil's purse: when you open it you find only dead leaves.

About Me

www.marissatamari.com

I am a painter, artist, hopeful romantic, gypsy mother, freedom in disguise, etc...

If you are interested in purchasing my work visit:

www.marissatamari.com/purchase.html

my letters to my stalker

My Husband's Artwork

My Interests

books, confections, horticulture, the Pacific Ocean, I also like to play chess.

I'd like to meet:

Read the novel: The Pornographic Shell .

Music:

...is a pusillanimous suicide.

Movies:

I've stopped going to the movie house, and have bandoned films altogether. But my favorite film would have to be 8 1/2 and Children of Heaven. The last good film I saw was There Will be Blood. Good film...

Television:

"Television is for unoriginal people who are looking for something immediate to emulate. You might as well emulate a spoon or your favourite table leg." -H.A.

That's the end of this section.

Books:

For starters I recommend:
.The Communist Manifesto
.Utopia
.Conversations with Stalin
.Confessions of an Economic Hitman
.Art and Society Essays in Marxist Aesthetics
.Orientalism
.Colonialism and Neo-colonialism
.Black Skin, White Masks
.Bound to Violence
.Nausea
.The Words
.The Wall
.The Second Sex
.Frankenstein or, The Modern Prometheus
.A Vindication of the Rights of Women
.The Lie
.The Time of Indifference
.The Bell Jar
.The Trial
.The Brothers Karamozov
.Silk
.Ocean Sea
.Venus in Furs
.Master and Margarita
.Philosophy in the Bedroom
.Dialogue of the Dogs
.Diary of a Superfluous Man
.Complete Stories of Edgar Allen Poe
.The Complete Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe
.The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock
.Sonetos Espirituales
.The Diary of Anais Nin, 1931-1934
.Les Miserables
.Don Quixote
.Othello
and my favorite stories as a child:
The Little Match Box Girl and A Rose on Homer's Grave

Heroes:

I don't have any heroes, so instead I will make a list of my favorite paintings...
The Chess Game by Sofonisba Anguissola
The Repentant Magdalen by El Greco
Captain Thomas Lee by Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger
Narcissus by Caravaggio
Still Life with Game Fowl by Juan Sanchez Cotan
Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemisia Gentileschi
Zebra by Ustad Mansur
Self Portrait as a Philosopher by Salvator Rosa
The Slippers by Samuel van Hoogstraten
Angel with a Harquebus by Circle of the Master of Calamarca
Mr. and Mrs. Andrews by Thomas Gainsborough
The Guitar Player by Jean-Baptiste Greuze
The Nightmare by Henry Fuseli
Mrs. Siddons as the Tragic Muse by Sir Joshua Reynolds
Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David
Titania Awakes,Surrounded by Attendant Fairies by Henry Fuseli
Raft of Medusa by Theodore Gericault
Saturn by Goya
The American Wild Turkey by John James Audubon
The Course of Emptire:Destruction by Thomas Cole
The Balcony Room by Adolf von Menzel
Ophelia by John Everett Millais
The Stonebreaker by Henry Wallis
Still Life of Papaya,Watermelon and Cashew by Agostinho Jose da Mota
Stanczyk by Jan Matejko
L'Origine de Monde by Gustave Courbert
Studio at Batignolles by Henri Fantin-Lantour
L'Absinthe by Edgar Degas
Sick Girl by Christian Krohg
The Water Sprite by Ernst Josephson
The Punishment of Lust by Giovanni Segantini
Chica in a Bar by Ramon Casas
The Sleeping Gypsy by Henri Rousseau
Woman in Yellow Dress by Max Kurzweil
Magnolia by Wilhelm List
The Knight's Dream by Richard Mauch
The Old Farmer by Paula Modersohn-Becker
The Birth of Venus by Odilon Redon
Boy With Pipe by Pablo Picasso
Self-Examination by Carl Larsson
Pennsylvania Station Excavation by George Bellows
Peasants by Natalia Goncharova
I and the Village by Marc Chagall
Nude Descending a Staircase No.2 by Marcel Duchamp
Portrait of Countess Mathieu de Noailles by Ignacio Zuloaga
Berlin Street Scene by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
The Cyclops by Odilon Redon
Portrait of the Marchesa Casati by Giovanni Boldini
The Song of Love by Giorgo de Chirico
The Embrace by Egon Schiele
Portrait of Mademoiselle Chanel by Marie Laurencin
Woman in the Wilderness by Alphonse Mucha
House by the Railroad by Edward Hopper
The Pillars of Society by George Grosz
The Seven Deadly Sins by Otto Dix
Woman by Joan Miro
Composition in Magenta:The End of Everything by Matta
Birthday by Dorothea Tanning.
The Palladist by Victor Brauner
The Singing Bird by Rufino Tamayo
The Bachelors Twenty Years After by Matta
Baby Giant by Leonora Carrington
Child with a Watermelon by Antoni Clave
Two Women of Veranda by Emiliano di Cavalcanti
I'm in the Mood for Love by David Hockney
Drinka Pinta Milka by Derek Boshier
The End of Madame Gardenia by Jacques Monory
Paintings in the Studio:"Figure Supporting Back Legs" and "Interior with Black Rabbit" by Arthur Boyd
Drifting Smoke by Fred Williams
The Citizen by Richard Hamilton
Entry into Port of a Ship with a Red Rose Aboard by Enzo Cucchi
Sailing Against the Current by Miquel Barcelo
Road to Zeneca by Peter Howson
Pasiphae and the Bull by Ansel Krut
Three Oncologists by Ken Currie
Cockaigne by Vincent Desiderio
1000 Thread Count by Cecily Brown
727-727 by Takashi Murakami
The Parade by John Alexander

My Blog

What do I think of your appearance?

appearances are just shells, mirrors of what the world expects you to be, to become, to behave the way society shall implement upon society...... a mirror within a mirror.... nothing more but dead cel...
Posted by Marissa Blood on Wed, 21 May 2008 11:19:00 PST

Paintings....

I have on hold 5 limited edition prints of the Smoking Girl. Please email me if you are interested in purchasing one. marissa@marissatamari.comor you can buy my artwork directly at: www.artexhibits.co...
Posted by Marissa Blood on Wed, 05 Dec 2007 08:44:00 PST

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Posted by Marissa Blood on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 01:36:00 PST