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Hereunder, you will find an unsystematic collection of thoughts and memories through art, literature, music and poetry. A scroll destined to the curious, the anonymous sentimental and/or hard-hearted people.

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Yves Saint Laurent “LOVE” greeting card from 1982

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Daniel Gebhart de Koekkoek - The World We Live In 

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Jackson Pollock - Painting Number 19 

“Art today, we are constantly being told, is about ideas rather than objects. Painting has been reduced to a marginal, niche activity, while ‘expression’, the working out of feelings through art, is about as ‘out’ as it possibly could be. [...]

His [ Jackson Pollock’s] work’s aspiration towards total freedom is synchronous with, and to a degree precipitated, the great opening up of the human spirit, the democratisation of self-expression, that began in the 1950s and is still going on today.

[...] Pollock’s tragic personality [...] is intrinsic to the way we see his work. Like van Gogh he is one of those artists who we feel sacrificed themselves for their art, to whom we feel a kind of gratitude for what they were able to bring back from the troubled extremities of the human soul; a gratitude that is romantic, but not entirely unwarranted. Pollock’s work doesn’t shock the way it once did. Most of us would now love to have a Pollock in our sitting room. Yet it continues to ask powerful questions about the limits of human expression, aspiration and perception – questions the rest of us are just beginning to get to grips with.”   

Extract of an article written by  Mark Hudson, art critic, for The Telegraph (Jackson Pollock 'transcends time and fashion')

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Vincent Chenut - Eclipse 2 (2015)

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Yves Klein - Anthropométrie de l’époque bleue (ANT 82), 1960

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David Salle - Trappers (2013) & The River (2012)

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Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life

Pablo Picasso

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Valentina Liernur - Freedom 2 (2015)

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Frank Stella - Delaware Crossing

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Diego Rivera - Río Juchitán (1/4)

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(let's go said he not too far said she what's too far said he where you are said she)

extract of May I Feel Said He, by E.E. Cummings (No Thanks collection,1935) 

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Robert Longo - "Untitled (Vatican Bishops)" 

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Marrakech by Frank Stella (1964)

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Leaf by Philip Guston (1967)

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Morgens und abends zu lesen

Der, den ich liebe Hat mir gesagt Daß er mich braucht.

Darum Gebe ich auf mich acht Sehe auf meinen Weg und Fürchte von jedem Regentropfen Daß er mich erschlagen könnte.

Bertholt Brecht

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LA Battle, (2015) encre et fusain sur papier & Paréidolie 0, (2014) Feutres et marqueurs noirs sur papier by Abdelkader Benchamma 

Inspired by visual scenarios that come from reflections on physical reality and space, Abdelkader Benchamma’s work is related to a practice of the original wall drawing. In his exhibitions, he creates huge murals that alter and disrupt our relationship to and our perception of space.

French artist Abdelkader Benchamma, 5th winner of the Drawing Now prize lives and works between Montpellier and Paris.

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Irises by Vincent van Gogh

“In May 1890, just before he checked himself out of the asylum at Saint-Rémy, Van Gogh painted four exuberant bouquets of spring flowers, [...] he sought a “harmonious and soft” effect by placing the “violet” flowers against a “pink background,” which have since faded owing to his use of fugitive red pigments.” Source