The Ten Commandments (Gilbert & George)

Gilbert and George - The Ten Commandments

Thou shalt fight conformism.
Thou shalt be the messenger of freedoms.
Thou shalt make use of sex.
Thou shalt reinvent life.
Thou shalt create artificial art.
Thou shalt have a sense of purpose.
Thou shalt not know exactly what thou dost, but thou shalt do it.
Thou shalt give thy love.
Thou shalt grab the soul.
Thou shalt give something back.

Addendum XV

Edgar Degas (1834-1917): Three Canaries of the Café-Concerts

Café-Concert, Les Ambassadeurs, 1876-77

Café-Concert, La Chanson du chien, c. 1875-7

Café Singer, 1878

Et Tu, Roy?

Roy Lichtenstein (b. 1923) - Kiss V, 1964

Addendum XII

A Bloody Bicentenary

Francisco de Goya (1746-1828) - The Third of May, 1808

Edouard Manet (1832-1883) - The Execution of Emperor Maximilian, 1868–69

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Massacre in Korea, 1951

Yue Minjun (b. 1962) - Execution, 1995

Addendum VIII

Plastic Poo

Paul McCarthy (b. 1945) - Shit Pile, 2007

Verso X

Edgar Degas (1834-1917): The (Not So) Dirty Dozen

Woman in Tub, 1884

Woman Combing Her Hair, 1886

After the Bath, 1884

Woman in the Bath, 1886

After the Bath, Woman Drying her Left Foot, 1886

After the Bath, 1892

After the Bath, c. 1896

After the Bath, c. 1896-98

After the Bath, Woman Drying Herself, c. early 1890s

After the Bath Woman, Drying Herself, 1895

After the Bath, Woman Drying Herself, 1895

After the Bath, c. 1895

Coda II

Pablo Picasso (1881-1967): Sleepers Together, Alone And Observed

La Sieste (Les Moissonneurs), 1919




Sleeping Peasants, 1919




Woman with Yellow Hair, 1931

The Dream, 1932

Minotaur Caressing a Sleeping Woman, 1933

Faun Unveiling a Sleeping Woman, 1936

'Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.'

E. M Ciroan

Palimpsest III

Honoré Daumier (1808-1879) - Rue Transnonian, le 15 Avril 1834, 1834

Appendix I: Alexandre Cabanel (1823-1889)

Sinful, Sensual, Supine, Sickly, Swooning and Satanic

Eve After the Fall

The Birth of Venus, 1863

The Death of Francesca de Rimini and Paolo Malatesta, 1870

Phedre, 1880

Ophelia, 1883

Cleopatra Testing Poisons on Condemned Prisoners, 1887

Verso VIII

Méret Oppenheim (1913-1985) - My Nurse, 1936

(Dame) Vivienne Westwood (b. 1941) - Sex, 1974-76

Claude Monet (1840-1926): Pondscapes

Water Lilies (The Clouds), 1903

Water Lilies, 1906

Water Lilies, 1908

Water Lilies, 1908

Water Lilies, c. 1914-1917

Water Lilies, c. 1914-1917

Jacob Izaaksoon van Ruisdael (c. 1628 - 1682): Cloudscapes

The Ray of Sunlight - c. 1660

Landscape with Church and Village - c. 1665-70

An Extensive Landscape with a Ruined Castle and a Village Church - c. 1665-72

Wheat Fields - c. 1670s

Landscape with a View of Haarlem - c. 1670-75

The Shore at Egmond-an-Zee - c. 1675

Verso VI

Max Ernst (1891-1976) - The Hat Makes the Man, 1920

Addendum I

The Mother Of All Gynecological Gazes

Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) - The Origin of the World, 1866