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ANDRE BRETON ~ EXISTENCE IS EVERYWHERE
“It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.” Andre Breton Photo by Henry Cartier -Bresson.
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WILLIAM BLAKE ~ ON IMAGINATION
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow. William Blake William Blake (1757-1827) Hecate or the Three Fates Watercolor and pen and black ink 1795
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LEONOR FINI ~ PAINTER OF THE SURREAL
Leonor Fini by Henri Cartier Bresson,Paris-1933
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EVA BESNYO ~ A STEP INTO THE PAST
Nicole Dumont, Amsterdam – 1934 Eva Besnyö (Dutch-Hungarian Photographer)
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ALEXANDER RODCHENKO ~ LEVELS
Alexander Rodchenko Levels 1929 Vintage print on Silver gelatin paper Collection Museum Moscow House of Photography / Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow © A. Rodchenko – W. Stepanova Archive © Museum Moscow House of Photography
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MAX ERNST ~ ON WOMEN’S NUDITY
Woman’s nudity is wiser than the philosopher’s teachings. Max Ernst Max Ernst and Dorothea Tanning, photo by Lee Miller.
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IN GIACOMETTI’S STUDIO
The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity. (Alberto Giacometti)
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MAX ERNST ~ ON GOOD IDEAS
“All good ideas arrive by chance.” Gala Éluard, 1924 Max Ernst
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BRASSAI ~ FOLIES BERGERE
Brassai (Ghula Halasz,1899-1984)-.Juan-les-pins, Folies Bergère, 1932
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JULES BRASSAI ~ THE OTHERNESS OF THE NIGHT
“The Night suggests, it does not show. The Night disquiets and surprises us with its otherness. It releases forces within us which by day are dominated by reason.” Jules Brassai
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