The sphinx in Stock’s painting serves as a physical representation of the relationship between desire and violence.
Read more
Millais portrays the world as is often is in reality: a tragic playground where death and beauty are too often intertwined.
Read more
Thus Carson frames this woman around concepts of coolness and distance to preserve her inner truth.
Read more
This woman has survived the fight perhaps not only in spite of her femininity, but because of it.
Read more
The pain in her history, it does not encroach upon her stillness or her quiet power.
Read more
