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I’d be a little jealous if your art made it into MoMA!
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“You copied my style.”
— 2Pac
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“A painting is not a picture of an experience, but is the experience.”
Mark Rothko
No. 10
1958
oil on canvas
94 ¼ x 69 ¼ in.
Price realised
USD 81,925,000
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follow in someone’s footsteps
idiom
: to do the same things that another person has done before.
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“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
— Herman Melville
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Who Killed King Ananda?
Source: https://on.wsj.com/3csjeu3
On 9 June 1946, the king was found shot dead in his bedroom in the Boromphiman Throne Hall (a modern residential palace located in the Grand Palace).
An initial radio announcement on 9 June surmised that the king was accidentally killed while toying with his pistol.
Soon after the death, the Democrat Party spread rumours that left-wing prime minister Pridi Banomyong was behind the death.
The investigation provided the fact that he died with a bullet wound in his forehead. It was proved that it was not an accident and not a suicide. One doesn’t know. … But what happened is very mysterious, because immediately much of the evidence was just shifted. And because it was political, so everyone was political, even the police were political, [it was] not very clear.
Who Owns a Country? Series: King Ananda Mahidol (พระบาทสมเด็จพระปรเมนทรมหาอานันทมหิดล 20 September 1925 – 9 June 1946)
2021
Watercolor on #claybord wood panel
12 x 16 in.
Price: Not for Sale
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“You really need faith in yourself to make art and to stand up for what you believe in.”
— Elizabeth Peyton
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It’s only wrong when YOU do it! The psychology of hypocrisy | Dean Burnett
“Humans are prone to the principle of least effort, often known as the ‘path of least resistance,’ which means they’ll go for whatever option requires the least work. Hypocrisy allows you to appear principled without having to be so, which is much easier than adhering to strict principles.”
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“There is nothing more surreal than reality.”
— Salvador Dalí
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“My painting is not violent, it’s life that is violent. Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves, the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life. We are born with a scream; we come into life with a scream and maybe love is a mosquito net between the fear of living and the fear of death.”
Francis Bacon
Study for Portrait
1977
oil and dry transfer lettering on canvas
78 x 58 1/8 in.
Price realised
USD 49,812,500
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“You can’t copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you’re working without any real feeling.”
— Milt Jackson
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How self-deception allows people to lie
We lie to ourselves to protect our self-images, which allows us to act immorally while maintaining a clear conscience. According to the very latest research, self-deception may have even evolved to help us to persuade others; if we start believing our own lies, it’s much easier to get other people to believe them, too.
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Larry Bell – Untitled, 1969, mineral coated glass, 40″ x 40″ x 40″