Art Nouveau

"A description published in Pan magazine of Hermann Obrist's wall hanging Cyclamen (1894) described it as "sudden violent curves generated by the crack of a whip", which became well known during the early spread of Art Nouveau.^[11]Subsequently, not only did the work itself become better known as The Whiplash but the term "whiplash" is frequently applied to the characteristic curves employed by Art Nouveau artists.^[11] Such decorative "whiplash" motifs, formed by dynamic, undulating, and flowing lines in a syncopated rhythm, are found throughout the architecture, painting, sculpture, and other forms of Art Nouveau design."

"A reaction to academic art of the 19th century, it was inspired by natural forms and structures, not only in flowers and plants, but also in curved lines. Architects tried to harmonize with the natural environment.^[3]"

Albert Santos-Dumont

Clooney

Clooney touches his wrist frequently, fixing his shirt studs or watch, very dry sense of humor, that releases with a huge laugh, extremely charming smile. Yet he is very aware of how charming he is, but in a sexy way, not an arrogant way. Confidence, confidence, confidence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0mRvXTGV4s

He had the laws changed for his wedding in Italy due to the paparazzi. Picture below.

Random Secrets of the Flesh Quotes

"Colette yearned to love and to believe in love, but always had the greatest trouble doing so. She was dominated too early and for too long by exploitative masters - first her mother, then her husband - both of whom lend certain features to Mama. She had split her own mother into two mythical figures, a beautiful, seductive princess whom she loves romantically, and a powerful, phallic, virago whom she feared. She believed this sorceress could read her thoughts, and so she armed herself - and much of her writing - with an inscrutable exterior.

The rivalry of her primitive anxieties - her father's indifference, her mother's romance with Achille, her feelings of exclusion - was one of Colette's strongest passions, if not her predominant one; and she couldn't avoid, indeed actively, perversely sought to reconstitute, the original love triangles of her childhood in most of her adult relationships and everywhere in her fiction. (343)."


"Content yourself, I urge you, with a passing temptation, and satisfy it. What more can one be sure of than that which one holds in one's arms, at the moment one holds it in one's arms? We have so few chances to be proprietary. (305).


"Colette's style is never purer than at the end of her career in fiction, and her artistic feat inspires the same hushed admiration that Gigi feels for the large square cut emerald her aunt got from a king, and which she slips onto Gigi's finger with the observation that "only the most beautiful emeralds contain that miracle elusive blue. (459)"