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Sacred Life Sunday: Limbs

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photo of dancer Albertina Rasch, 1915. via the amazing Shorpy.

 

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty, but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don’t start measuring her limbs.
-Pablo Picasso

3 comments

1 lisa (msla) { 16 Nov 2009 at 6:17 pm }

How come you took down the original image? I thought it was very daring!

2 Rachelle { 16 Nov 2009 at 10:34 pm }

I had second thoughts about putting it up close to a my friend’s guest post for his non-profit organziation. I didn’t want any of his supporters to take offense and stop giving to such an important cause.

I’m planning on using it later on another Sunday tho — she’s too evokative to pass by!

3 carol { 17 Nov 2009 at 10:43 pm }

I liked the original picture too!
Glad to hear you’ll use it again. :)

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