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I began this blog in order to further my personal art education. Through this exploration I hope to expose myself to artist often marginalized. “All Art is quite useless.” – Oscar Wilde

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Baskin, Leonard. He Thinks of the Death Spirits and His Teeth Chatter Together (recto). 1961. Las Angeles County Museum of Art. Las Angeles.

Ink and Watercolor

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Gropper, William. Fear. 1956. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia. 

Lithograph

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Owens, Laura. Untitled (for Parkett no. 65). 2002. Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Lithograph with collage additions

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Unknown. Narasimha Avatara. 1910. Brooklyn Museum, New York. Watercolor, ink and silver on paper

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Unknown. One of Set of Nine Watercolors Showing Indians in Different Professions. 19th C. Brooklyn Museum, New York. Watercolor on paper

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Stam, Dough and Mike Starn. Slide on Over Here, Let Me Give You a Squeeze. 2010. Brooklyn Museum, New York. Unique color carbon print (watercolor pigments and gelatin) on paper with 16k gold and palladium leaf water gilding and 24l illumination.

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Homer, Winslow. Sharks; also The Derelict. 1885. Brooklyn Museum, New York. Watercolor over graphite on cream, moderately thick, moderately textured wove paper

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Mihr ‘Ali. Portrait of Fath ‘Ali Shah Qajar. 1815. Brooklyn Museum, New York. Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

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Sargent, John Singer. Bedouins. 1906. Brooklyn Museum, New York. Opaque and translucent watercolor

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Michelson, Philip L. Croton. 1979. Brooklyn Museum, New York. Watercolor on paper

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O’Keeffe, Georgia. Blue #1. 1916. Brooklyn Museum, New York. Watercolor, graphite on paper

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Kuhn, Walt. 1 of a Set of 6 Postcards: What’s Become of Arthur?. 1905. Brooklyn Museum, New York. Ink and watercolor over graphite on yardstick

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Smith, Kiki. Come Away From Her. 2003. Brooklyn Museum, New York. Intaglio with hand applied watercolor

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I’ll be honest with you. I hate war in all its forms: physical, psychological, spiritual, emotional, environmental. I hate war, and I hate having to struggle…I wish I had been born into a world where it’s unnecessary. This context of struggle and being a warrior and being a struggler has been forced on me by oppression. Otherwise I would be a sculptor, or a gardener, a carpenter…I would be free to be so much more. I guess part of me or a part of who I am, a part of what I do is being a warrior, a reluctant warrior, a reluctant struggler. But I do it because I’m committed to life. We can’t avoid it, we can’t run away from it, because to do that is to be cowardice. To do that is to be subservient to devils, subservient to evil. And so that the only way to live on this planet with any human dignity at the moment is to struggle.

Assata Shakur  (via thepeacefulterrorist)

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Two weeks from today The Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art will present the Sackler First Awards, honoring women who are first in their fields. This year we honor performer, actor, writer, and icon Miss Piggy for more than forty years of blazing feminist trails with determination and humor, and for her groundbreaking role inspiring generations the world over.

Join us for the evening and see Miss Piggy in conversation with Gloria Steinem. Kermit the Frog will also be in attendance.  ‪#‎sacklercenterfirsts‬

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I love the Brooklyn Museum, but why are they giving one of the few awards honoring women to a fictional puppet pig voiced by a man? Could they really not find a real human woman who was deserving of this?

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Brancusi, Constantin. Mlle Pogany. 1913. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Bronze with black patina on limestone

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Picasso, Pablo. Jacqueline in a Flowery Straw Hat. 1964. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Terra-cotta with black slip