Wassily Kandinsky Fragment I for Composition VII 1913 oil on canvas Milwaukee Art Museum |
Wassily Kandinsky Sketch for a Painting with White Border 1913 oil on canvas Phillips Collection, Washington DC |
Wassily Kandinsky Painting with Green Center 1913 oil on canvas Art Institute of Chicago |
George Bellows Emma at the Piano 1914 oil on panel Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
Erich Mallina Standing Man, Nude in a Landscape ca. 1914 gouache on paper Minneapolis Institute of Art |
Elie Nadelman Head ca. 1915 drawing Indianapolis Museum of Art |
Émile-Antoine Bourdelle Antiquity: Centaur with a Genius ca. 1915 watercolor Art Institute of Chicago |
Patrick Henry Bruce Composition I 1916 oil on canvas Yale University Art Gallery |
Man Ray The Black Tray 1914 oil on canvas Phillips Collection, Washington DC |
Man Ray Invention 1916 oil on board Art Institute of Chicago |
Man Ray Percolator 1917 oil on board Art Institute of Chicago |
Lyubov Popova Untitled 1915 oil on canvas Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
George Grant Elmslie Architectural Frieze 1916 glazed terracotta (salvaged from demolished building) Minneapolis Institute of Art |
Lovis Corinth Portrait of Dr Karl Schwarz 1916 oil on canvas Milwaukee Art Museum |
George Bellows Splinter Beach 1916 lithograph Milwaukee Art Museum |
Anonymous Austrian Artist Subscribe to the 5½ percent Third War Bonds 1915 lithograph (poster) Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
The other night being at supper with a sort of hungry fellowes, while I did greedily put a great morsell of meate in my mouth, that was fried with the flower of cheese and barly, it cleaved so fast in the passage of my throat and stopped my winde in such sort, that I was well nigh choked. And yet at Athens before the porch, there called Peale, I saw with these eyes a Iugler that swallowed up a two hand sword, with a very keene edge, and by and by for a little money, that we that looked on gave him, hee devoured a chasing speare with the point downeward. And after that hee had conveyed the whole speare within the closure of his body, and brought it out againe behind, there appeared on the top therof (which caused us all to marvell) a faire boy pleasant and nimble, winding and turning himself in such sort, that you would suppose he had neither bone nor gristle, and verily thinke that he were the naturall Serpent, creeping and sliding on the knotted staffe, which the god of Medicine is feigned to beare.
– Apuleius, The Golden Ass, translated by William Adlington (1566)