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Alvar Aalto as a painter, 1945 – 1969. From the book Alvar Aalto by Göran Schildt, 1994. Via theridoureport

Oh I don’t know. Is it that we collectively thought that Steve jobs was a

great man

even when we knew he made billions off the backs of children? Or maybe it’s that it feels that all of our heroes are counterfeit.

The world itself is just one big

hoax.

Spamming each other with our burning commentary bullshit, masquerading as insight.

Our social media

faking

as intimacy. Or is it that we voted for this; not with our rigged elections, but with our things, our property, our money. I’m not saying anything new, we all know why we do this. Not because

Hunger Games

books makes us happy, but because we want to sedated,

because it’s painful not to pretend, because we’re

cowards.

Fuck Society.

"Mon cher père ...je ne partage pas tes inquiétudes au cas où je serai livré à moi-même dans mes études de peinture...j'espère bien si je fais jamais quelque chose ,avoir le mérite de ne copier personne." －Frédéric Bazille

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Reclining Nude - Sir Herbert James Gunn

British, 1893-1964

oil on canvas on board, 34.0 x 44.5 cm

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A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.

Jorge Luis Borges (via huariqueje)

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The Task of Art ….

Las Calles de Borges from Ian Ruschel on Vimeo.

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The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory. That is our duty. If we don’t fulfill it, we feel unhappy.

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Richard Pousette-Dart, Chavadem 1951

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Shon Min Ho for Esquire Korea June 2016

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Éric-Alfred-Leslie Satie

I have never written a note I didn't mean.

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Shunyi House / reMIX Studio

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1,400 Square Feet of Pastel Candy-Colored Resin Flood the Floors Inside German Museum

Talk about dream home floor goals. Within the Museum Für Neue Kunst in Freiburg, artist Peter Zimmermann has radically transformed the gallery rooms into a monumental and immersive walk-in work.

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Zao Wou-Ki | 13 February 1920 – 9 April 2013 |

Chinese-French painter.

He was a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

#art #zao wou-ki #painting #abstraction

Derrida makes the distinction between the 'who' one loves - their singularity - and the 'what' - the specific qualities of the beloved; then, he states that ...

Do I love someone for the absolute singularity of who they are? Or do I love your qualities ,your beauty ,your intelligence. Does one love someone ,or does one love something about someone? Does my heart move because I love someone who is an absolute singularity or because I love the way that someone is? So at the death of love ,it appears that one stops loving another not because of who they are but because they are such and such.

#love #philosophy #jacques derrida

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Top 10 Art Shops: May 2016

With the launch of the new Disk Print, our artists were extra creative over the past month. From bright to bold styles and from square to round prints, our selection of Top Shops for May has it all: