by Lisa Azarmi | Dec 16, 2021 | ANIMALS, BEAUTY, BECOMING
“I’ve developed into quite a swan. I’m one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older – until I drop dead of beauty.”Rufus Wainwright Frank Brangwyn – The Swans, 1921.
by Lisa Azarmi | Dec 7, 2021 | ACCEPTANCE, BEAUTY, BECOMING, BEGINNINGS, NUDES
“The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves”.Kahlil Gibran – The Prophet, 1923. Nicolai Fechin – Nude at the Toilette, 1918.
by Lisa Azarmi | Nov 22, 2021 | BEAUTY, BECOMING, BOTANICAL, CHILD PORTRAIT
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”Marcel Proust Georges Rochegrosse – The Knight of the Flowers (detail), 1894.
by Lisa Azarmi | Nov 22, 2021 | BEAUTY, NUDES, VOLUPTUOUS
“Beauty: it curves, curves are beauty. Shapely goddesses, Venus, Juno: curves the world admires.” James Joyce, Ulysses, 1922. Henri Caro-Delvaille – La Brune in the Mirror, 1906.
by Lisa Azarmi | Nov 22, 2021 | BEAUTY, FANTASY, FEMALE PORTRAIT, HEARTBREAK, HOME, LOSS
‘Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.But no, that is not quite accurate. There is one place where her absence comes locally home to me, and it is a place I can’t avoid. I mean my own body…Now it’s like an empty house.” C.S. Lewis...
by Lisa Azarmi | Nov 11, 2021 | ACCEPTANCE, BEAUTY, BECOMING, NUDES
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it” Gustave Flaubert Zinaida Serebriakova – Reclining Nude, 1935.
