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Tag: Art
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The painting invites the viewer to wonder what has just happened, why it happened, and why the participants are dressed in such costumes. It encourages the viewer to reconstruct the preceding events through imagination. — Read on apaintingstory.com/en/posts/the-duel-after-the-masquerade/
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I love how art-world denizens dress when they come to Los Angeles. The collector class interprets “dressing for/with/about fine art in LA” differently than I’ve ever seen elsewhere in the world, applying vast economic resources to fashion interpretations that I can only describe as “downstream from 1960s CIA experiments.” — Read on freakpalace.substack.com/p/the-freakiest-outfits-we-saw-at-frieze
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What do you notice about this reconstruction? That’s right, it looks awful. In the eyes of modern viewers, at least, the addition of this matte, heavily saturated color has turned a really good work of art into a really bad one. — Read on worksinprogress.co/issue/were-classical-statues-painted-horribly/
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It was the opinion of the Symbolists, and Bocklin in particular that the purpose of art was to reveal through the use of a language no longer logical, but from “other” reality that hides behind that immediately perceptible with careful use of “symbols.” From Arnold Bocklin, 60 Paintings
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Should you learn to appreciate better culture? This interview insists you should. Some reasons: Because good culture shows people “how to be greater…than the forces that destroy them,” because good art shows that there is a value in ethical behavior, because it reveals life from “a position of solemn detachment.” I think you can be…
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It wasn’t Erol Otis (he designed the cover). It was John Dee, who came from a comics background and thus drew lean, muscular heroes and heroines. And as this article points out, he drew halflings really well: Jeff liked to show Halflings in actions other than picking pockets or running scared. His Halflings were fighters…
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“Major auction houses — Christie’s, Sotheby’s, Phillips — have no Bob Ross sales history. Craigslist draws a goose egg. A scan of eBay only turns up 3 sales in the last 6 months, 2 of which are of dubious origin.”
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“In my experience, high-level enjoyment, like a sport, is composed of many interlocking micro-skills that must be trained individually, but which reinforce each other.”
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“Except that the nude that Caillebotte is presenting for our delectation is male”
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“Some lean towards the soft and hyper-feminine, others erupt with anime iconography, but all are united by a sense of unapologetic presence.”
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