Strange Persian Creatures

Antique 17th century Persian painting of two unusual black and white creatures.



  

Jewel

Jewel
original collage by Opium of the Poets 

 
 

Medusa

Medusa
original collage by Opium of the Poets


  

Deep in the Flying Garden

Deep in the Flying Garden
original collage by Opium of the Poets

 
 

Le Lion Amoureux

Le Lion Amoureux (The Amorous Lion).
From the Fables of La Fontaine.
Félix Bracquemond after Gustave Moreau (1886).


  

Dream of Spring

original collage by Opium of the Poets


   

The Horned God

The Horned God
woodcut by by Albrecht Dürer (c.1517)

 

East of the Moon

East of the Moon 
original collage by Opium of the Poets

 

Nature Grotesque

German decorative grotesque engraving (c.1600s).


  

Cabaret Hell

The amazing grotesque entrance to Cabaret de L'Enfer (Cabaret of Hell), Paris.
A French nightclub which operated from 1890s until the 1950s,
This image is dated around 1910.



   

Japanese Raven

Japanese ink painting of a crow (or raven). 1840s


   

Vasaksajja Nayika in Night Forest

Indian, Mughal, painting of a Vasaksajja Nayika (c.1750s)


  

Medieval Griffin

15th century German engraving of a mythical Griffin.



   

Hidden Garden

'Hidden Garden' 
original collage by Opium of the Poets

'.. secrets much more beautiful
for not having been said
words not written
steps erased..'
Alice Paalen

The Bat Woman

La Femme Chauve-Souris (The Bat Woman) by Albert Joseph Pénot
(1890)


'Dream is like a second life. Never have I been able to pass without a shudder through those gates of ivory or horn which divide us from the invisible world... '
Gerard de Nerval (Aurelia) 


  

Nijinsky

Vaslav Nijinsky,
from the Ballets Russe production of Le Spectre de la Rose. (c.1911).



  

The Poet Sappho

The poet Sappho.
Victorian painting.


   

Arachne

Arachne
Victorian era etching.