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by Tanya Chulkova

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René Gruau (1909-2004) Le Masque

Christie’s Interiors – Style & Spirit

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Munich, 2002. Photo by Bernd Becher and Hilla Becher.

#Munich #Architecture #Black and White #Bernd Becher #Hilla Becher

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Frank Frazetta “Leopard” (c.1950s) Source

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Quarry Bay, Hong Kong Photograph: William Shun

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Paradise Lost - art by Gustave Doré (1866)

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The German actor on why he keeps saying yes to Nazis, what Klaus Barbie taught him about empathy and how he ended up as the villain in James

I believe the figure of the classic hero is actually a far less realistic figure — it’s a pure fiction. And you engage with it differently, because the hero creates distance: You feel you can’t identify, you look up to this figure. There’s a quote from Charles Manson — the serial killer — who said: “Look down at me and you see a fool, look up at me and you see a god, look straight at me and you see yourself.” Obviously, it’s always a little piquant to quote a serial killer — but the thought itself is interesting: You recognize yourself in the figure. And that’s the highest ambition of art: to confront people with themselves. Being liked isn’t really a criterion. I pursue figures — or they pursue me — that I feel bring out certain parts of myself, and of the viewer, that perhaps they weren’t consciously aware of but can discover there. It’s always a form of reflection, of self-examination. The antihero, in my experience, is a far better vehicle for identification than the classic hero.

#Famous People #Lars Eidinger #Brainiac #Charles Manson #Man of Tomorrow #DC Comics #Comics #James Gunn