Something in the Air

Arkady Rylov, In the Blue Expanse, 1918

 Julius von Ehren, Möwen an der Alster, Hamburg, ca. 1905

 Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904), Le Marabout in the Harem bath

Richard Müller, A Classic Beauty Courted by Dignified Ugliness, 1910 

 John Baldessari, Pelicans Staring at Woman with Nose Bleeding, 1984

 Paula Rego, Brazil, c. 1995

 Martin Eder, Night Watch, 2007

 René Magritte, La nuit d'amour, 1947

 Lucien Levy-Dhurmer, Swan Lake,c. 1900

Nicholas Kalmakoff, Leda and the Swan. c. 1920 

 Jan Asselijn, The Threatened Swan, before 1652

 Jean Dupas, Les Perruches, 1925

Alberto Savinio, Niobe, c. 1930 

 Edward Burra, Bird Men and Pots, 1947

 Jan Mankes, Haan (Cock), 1913

 Richard Müller, Fox, 1926

 Jozsef Rippl-Ronai, Woman With Birdcage, c. 1900

 Atelier Manassé, 1920s

 Untitled

 The bird dispenser by Curro Claret

 Ed Ruscha, Angry Because It’s Plaster, Not Milk, 1965

 Karl Zerbe, Parrot and Decanter, 1934

 Adolf Dietrich, Pfeffervogel (Pepper Bird), 1927

 Gert Wollheim, Dame mit Kakadu, 1929

Stefan George

Meine weissen ara haben
safrangelbe kronen ·
Hinterm gitter wo sie wohnen
Nicken sie in schlanken ringen
Ohne ruf ohne sang ·
Schlummern lang ·
Breiten niemals ihre schwingen –
Meine weissen ara träumen
Von den fernen dattelbäumen.

 Torsten Solin, Gustav & Paula, 2008

 Ruth Marten, Abundance, 2008

 John Delaney, Kazakh Eagle Nomad, 2008

 Julio Larraz, For you, Anaxagoras, 2003

What is called "birds' milk" is the white of the egg. (Anaxagoras, Fragments, no. 22)

 René Magritte, Self-Portrait, 1936 

Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Air, 1566

 Melchior Hondecoeter, Die Menagerie, c. 1600

 Martin Johnson Heade, Cattleya Orchid and Three Brazilian Hummingbirds, 1871

 Albrecht Dürer, Wing of a Blue Roller, 1512

 Martial Leiter (b. 1952), Untitled

 George Frederick Watts, The Wounded Heron, 1837

 Franz Dvorak, The Angel of the Birds, 1910

Rene Magritte, Pleasure, 1926

 Picasso, Woman with a Crow,1904

 Paula Rego, Crow, 1994

 Félix Bracquemond, The Raven, 1854

 Max Klinger, The Pest, c. 1900

 Henri Rivière, Paris, c. 1900

 Felix Jenewein, Judas, 1896

 Alexei Kondratyevich Savrasov, Return of the Crows, 1871

 Marina Sailer, Ort der Zuflucht (Place of Shelter), 2005

Daniel Pitin, The Birds, 2004 

 Marguerite Burnat-Provins, Anthor et l'oiseau noir, 1922

 Edward J. Detmold, Illustration from The Fables of Aesop, 1909

 Max Ernst, The Barbarians, 1937

 Isaac Brodsky, Fairy Tale, 1911

 Léon Frédéric, The Lake, 1898

 George de Forest Brush, Indian and the Lily, 1887

 Vinogradov Alexander, Dubossarsky Vladimir, Oblomov, 1996

Jamie Wyeth, Pridefulness, 2008

 Ruth Jacobi, Berlin, 1928

 Victor Pivovarov , A Cockroach for Dinner, 2009

 Viktor Vasnetsov, A Song of Joy and Sorrow, 1896

 James Gleeson, Gondolier with Siren, 1951

 Priscilla Roberts, Self-Portrait, 1946

 Clovis Trouille (1889-1975), Untitled

 Henry Stacy Marks, Science is Measurement, c. 1880