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The Sea of Ice, 1824, Caspar David Friedrich

Medium: oil,canvas

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Peter Halley | White Prison

acrylic, fluorescent acrylic and Roll-A-Tex on canvas 32 x 32 in. (81.3 x 81.3 cm.) executed in 2017

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Mohamed Melehi

cellulose paint on wood 110.5 by 94.5 cm. 43½ by 37¼ in. painted in 1975

Henry Toulouse Lautrec at Musee D'Orsay, it's been so many years but I still care about him. The kindest most beautiful boy of my dreams.

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Mick Jagger, 1975, Andy Warhol

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I'm sorry but art needs it's context posted by it when in a museum. Not everyone understands why Malevich painted his black squares. Not all patrons will understand Rothko's thoughts pressed between his layers of paint. And not every one will be able to look at Kandinsky's symphony's on canvas and know what's going on. Every piece in every museum aught to have what it is, why it's important, and why/where it was created, and what reaction it got. I'm tired of the elitism in artistic culture that makes people feel as though they could never understand it. It's because they know the context and you don't! And museums have failed at that for years. It's their job to teach us, just as much as it's our job to be willing to learn.