<![CDATA[Mikhail Vrubel. The Demon Seated, 1890.]]>Mikhail Vrubel. The Demon Seated, 1890.

We moderns tend to think irony and inversion began with punk rock or Repo Man, but here's Russian Symbolism fully understanding the assignment by the late 19th. Evil is beautiful or we would not desire it so much. Ask Baudelaire!

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