Toyen - Dívka s mandlovýma očima For some reason, finding a single painting I would identify with well enough is a very challenging task for me. I think there are many aspects to one person. In one art piece, I see a small reflection of this part of me, in another a completely different one. I like Toyen's portraits and some of their many aesthetic drawings of women. The ones with sad eyes are the best. I don't enjoy their paintings as much, they tend to often feel too polished and kitschy for my taste. But their story and personality is something I can easily reflect myself in, in a completely unique way. Toyen - Spící, 1937 Toyen, born Marie Čermínová, was a Czech-French gender nonconforming artist and a significant figure in Czech history. They chose a genderless pseudonym, wore men's clothes and even used Czech masculine pronouns. (Frankly, they refused to use the feminine ones) And despite all that, they are being brushed off of any possible queerness by most media, ...