Eyes

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Ball-point drawing depicting Hera plucking out Argus's eyes on his severed head. Her peacock stands nearby, half of its tail already adorned with eyes. In contradiction with the lines quoted above, Argus's remaining eyes are not closed.
From a 1914 self-portrait entitled "Self-portrait smoking". The eyes are narrowed because of the thick smoke coming out of the painter's mouth. Both otto and dix are numbers (in Italian and French respectively), in case you were wondering why I chose this painting to go with these lines.
A jumping spider (menemerus semilimbatus) holding the housefly it just caught in my backyard. Is the fly already dead or just paralyzed I don't know. It's dinner anyway.
Zygaena carniolica on a lavender flower.
Unmanned fire lookout at the top of a mountain. Other mountains in the background.
Flat snail on moss.
Common houseleek on a mountain ridge.
A walking trail on a mountain ridge.
A man by a river in a snowy landscape. The backdrop is more abstract than figurative, but if I had to compare it to some actual thing, I'd say a glass of milk with blood being spilled into it.
A still from Kwaidan (1964) A man is walking in the snow (this is from the second story of the film, "The Lady of the Snow"). In the sky, which is painted on a backdrop, are various figures which all resemble eyes (some more closely than others)
A young woman with tears gushing over her swollen red eyelids. Tempera on limewood.
From a portrait of George Sand: her right eye. It's an oil painting, but devoid of colours.
Bird's eye view of a negroni on a white tablecloth. The ice cube has a butterfly imprint. There's an orange wedge half immerged in the drink.
Brick wall painted white in Dublin.
An eye surrounded by colourful brushstrokes, from Gabriele Münter's "Girl with a Red Ribbon"
An abandoned all covered in algae in Galway, Ireland.
The stern of a ferry ship as it leaves Cherbourg.
Calm waters in the Gulf of Morbihan at dawn.
A sea of ferns. In the distance, a white house emerges from it.
A man whose brain is out in the open is holding a glass. An eye (presumably his own) is floating within the rim of the glass. At the bottom of the glass, a red liquid. A tube, coming out of the man's eye socket, reaches inside the glass to suck in the liquid.
Un individu d'Euglena Gracilis vu au microscope. Il ressemble en effet à un œil allongé, vert et argent.
A few agapanthus flowers before a white house with a blue shutter.
An island seen from a boat.
A mole cricket coming out of the dirt. Its forelegs look a lot like mole paws.
A photograph I just took of Cyrano's statue in Bergerac. In the background is one of Bergerac's churches (Saint Jacques le Majeur). A swallow is also visible. The sky is blue.
Alteration of the American poster for Battle of Algiers. A photograph of workers in waterproof overalls fighting algae in the reflection pool (from a Wired article), surrounded by blurbs from such the NYT, Life, The Daily Mail etc.. The title reads "Battle of Algae" A film of Gillou Pontecorvo An Allied Artists release
Photograph of the spot left vacant by the theft of the Mona Lisa.
A pair of blue eyes belonging to Baldassare Castiglione, author of The Book of the Courtier. We can see that they're blue because this is a painting.
A page from the old book, on which are printed, among others, the lines I translated from French: Œil, le seul soleil de mon âme, De qui la non visible flamme En moi fait tous les changements Qu'un soleil fait aux elemens, Disposant le monde par eux, À temps froid ou à chaleureux, À temps pluvieux ou serain Selon qu'il est proche ou loingtain.
An eye that belongs to the inventor of the barometer. It's a little prominent, with red swollen lids.
The eyes of an old man looking up. This is not from the Prado painting, but from another one which consists solely in a bust of Seneca, and is owned by a private collector.
Fragment of a decorated ostrich egg from ancient Carthage, on display at the Carthage National Museum. Painted on the shell is an eye, with a red round spot below it. The complete artifact was probably a mask. The quote is from Thomas Nashe's "The Unfortunate Traveller"
A gray face with faded features, kind of like Odo's face in Deep Space Nine. The right eye looks like a black stain. The other (the one in my original post) is more detailed in comparison, which makes it pop out.
An eye that looks like a black hole in a grey featureless face. The only traces of colour are two faint strokes of red at the rim of the eye.
Les yeux de Lucrezia, une Florentine du 16e siècle. Les iris sont d'un gris sombre, absolument "sans couleur" (le premier vers du poème est: Le charme de tes yeux sans couleur ni lumière)
Mountains viewed from the crest of a mountain.
Mountainscape, with a rainbow-coloured halo in the sky.
Illustration for "La Conscience" by François Chifflard. Barely naked Cain flees the reproachful, disembodied eye staring at him from above the horizon.
In the upper right corner, a murder. The victim of the murder is half-man, half tree. In the bottom left corner, the murderer, pursued by a monstrous fish, swims towards a cross. The events leading from the beginning of the dream to its end form an S on the sheet.
An eye, a mouth and a breast use their sharp teeth to nibble at the mutilated face of their former owner.
A lake surrounded by mountains in central Corsica
Cuckoo spit (actually a protective foam secreted by the nymph of the spittlebug) among the leaves of a genista corsica bush.
The head of the sea monster with its mouth wide open. Its eye is red and yellow. It has sharp teeth and a nose resembling that of a cat.
A common lizard, with a yellow throat
A rock that kinda looks like a bird's head, with a hooked beak and a hollow eye socket. In the background, a stunning view of the Corsican west coast. Not a cloud in the sky.
A beetle on a carrot flower.
Asphodel plants leaning toward the right end of the frame, where mountains can be seen in the background. No discernable bumblebees.
A smol jellyfish floating so close to the seabed that it seems to be standing on it.
The scène of the crime (picture of the sea seen from a rocky shore in Northern Corsica. The separation of sea and sky is so faint it appears to be inexistant.
Cover of "Old and New Dreams" Don Cherry, Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden, Ed Blackwell ECM The art is what I believe to be a painted seascape.
A rose chafer in the palm of my hand.
Calm portion of a mountain stream.
The golden eyes of a striped cat, from an early 16th century oil painting. #caturday
Noir et blanc. Un œil maquillé. Les cheveux artificiels d'une perruque tombent à la verticale sur la tempe, et en frange horizontale sur le front, formant un angle droit qu'une ombre vient arrondir.
Two yellow (green, according to Van Gogh) eyes. Though Eugène Boch served as a model for this piece, it is not a portrait of Eugène Boch. Prior to meeting Boch, Van Gogh already had the painting figured out in his mind, and he called it "The Poet". He continued calling it that after it was painted.
Two eyes, one made of glass and the other of usual eye stuff. The eyebrow over the "natural" eye is raised. The motionlessness of Columbo's right eye plays a part in how everyone seems to underestimate his sagacity.
Les yeux maquillés du danseur. Le blanc des yeux est teinté d'or et d'oxyde de cuivre. Une mèche de cheveux noirs tombe en pointe entre les deux yeux.
From "The Magdalen with the Smoking Flame" : the eye and brow of a woman who is staring at the flame of an oil lamp. She is seen in profile, so her eyes has the triangular shape of a moth. The flame is reflected in it.
Detail from "The Resurrection": the closed eyes of one of the roman soldiers who are supposed to guard the tomb of the Christ, but are sleeping instead. This particular guard is believed by many to be a self-portrait of Piero della Francesca.
Eyes of the 'Maschinenmensch", a feminine humanoid robot.