Little Subterranean Deity by Leonor Fini (1946). Fini (1907–1996) was an Argentinian surrealist painter, illustrator and author, known for her depictions of powerful women. "Leonor was a proud bisexual" who "always preferred to live in a sort of community" & had 23 Persian cats

Women in Afghanistan, and those living as refugees in Pakistan or Iran became so accustomed to war they began to replace traditional motifs of flowers and birds in their rug weaving often replacing them with images of war planes, tanks and guns #WomensArt

It's always worth remembering that Andrej Tarkovsky tricked the Soviet State culture dept into letting him create one of the most beautiful, anti-political and spiritual films ever made. Mirror (1975). The USSR tried to stop its distribution but it was snuck out to Europe.

I just know I'm gong to be obsessed with the music of Ukrainian singer-songwriter Svitlana Nianio for the next year. What to call it - avant-garde minimalist post folk? Or just angelic? Link to a song here: youtube.com/watch?v=FnJMuZ… interview here: theatticmag.com/features/2141/…

Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith and her Maidservant, 1625–7 #WomensArt

Love's Old Sweet Song

Sunrise By the Ocean by Vladimir Kush, 1996

'Underwater Portraits' series by contemporary US painter Samantha French #WomensArt

Iranian artist Maryam Ashkanian embroiders images of sleeping people onto handmade pillows for her ongoing series, 'Sleep' #WomensArt

1659 painting by Elisabetta Sirani depicting Timocleia of Thebes pushing the Thracian captain who raped her into a well. #UnlockingWomensArt

In a museum in the Italian town of Gandino there is a series of 22 panels showing skeletons in various different attire.

GOTHIC NATURE A tree eats a grave in Nottingham Rock Cemetery; pond plants grow out of a submerged tomb in an uncanny watery graveyard in North London

Hugo Grenville, Seated Figure with Broken Bowl and Lemons.

Auguste Renoir - Woman at the Garden

'Black cats' by contemporary, Hungarian born painter Eva Fialka #WomensArt

Arthur Machado.

Hiroshi Yoshida (吉田博, 1876 – 1950) 竹林 Bamboo Grove 1939.

Tsunenobu Namiki ( b 1949 Japan) Path of Leaves.

And don't miss our follow-up Dark Room with the great Ewan Morrison, talking The Mirror, the trance of a Tarkovsky scene, and much else. artofdarkpod.com/the-dark-room-…

So accurate they are still studied by botanists today, these exquisite 18th-century 'flower mosaicks' were created Mary Delany - a widow who, invented a whole new art form at the age of 72. Each image is made by minutely cut & collaged paper. From 1772 on, she made 1,000 images.