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Art · Reflection
Poema del Atlantico/La Noche (1917-1918 Poem of the Atlantic/Night by Nestor Martin- Fernandez de la Torre This painting is part of the series called Poem of the Atlantic, painting of the Atlantic Ocean in various times of the day and night. Nestor Martin (1887-1938) is the only
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My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate. Very seldom do I start out that way. I can see of course that, in the abstract, thinking and all activity is rather desperate. Willem de Kooning Standing Man by Willem de Kooning
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I dream a lot. I do more painting when I’m not painting. It’s in the subconscious. Andrew Wyeth Bird’s nest Andrew Wyeth Pennsylvania, USA – 12th of July, 1917 /2009 Famous Andrew Wyeth paintings include realist works of rural scenes, usually with a figure, object, or animal in i
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“I felt that my senses were leaving me. The sentence, the dread sentence of death, was the last of distinct accentuation which reached my ears” Edgar Allan Poe ~ The Pit and the Pendulum The Pit and the Pendulum is a claustrophobic tale of horror and suspense with an overpowering
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“Dora Maar in her Studio” Paris, 1946 by Brassai She was born Henriette Theodora Markovitch in Tours, Western France to a Jewish family. Her father, Josip Marković, was a Croat architect, famous for his work in South America; her mother, Julie Voisin, was from Touraine, France. D
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Witches’ Sabbath is a 1798 oil on canvas by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya . Goya used the imagery of covens of witches in a number of works, most notably in one of his Black Paintings, Witches Sabbath or The Great He-Goat(1821–1823) which contains similar sharp political and
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Witches’ Sabbath is a 1798 oil on canvas by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya . Goya used the imagery of covens of witches in a number of works, most notably in one of his Black Paintings, Witches Sabbath or The Great He-Goat(1821–1823) which contains similar sharp political and
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Art · Reflection
The fine art of painting, which is the bastard of alchemy, always has been always will be, a game. The rules of the game are quite simple: in a given arena, on as many psychic fronts as the talent allows, one must visually describe, the centre of the meaning of existence. Brett W
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It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism. There is no such thing as good painting about nothing. Mark Rothko
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What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things . . . it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface. Constantin Brancusi
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If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time. Marcel Proust
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“Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.” ~Anais Nin Photos by Peter and Alice Gowland
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