brushstrokes
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“One could consider that the choices made are like a paradox. It can be seen as a paradox for the painter to not choose the color of his canvas, but I want the charge-taker to decide, since ultimately he has to live with it.”— Claude Rutault
Claude Rutault was a French both minimalist and conceptual artist, best known for the original way of expression he created and named definition-method, which is basically a manual how to create his art piece.
Installation view of After the Masters: A Tribute to Claude Rutault (1941–2022) at Musée d’Orsay, 2023
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Augustin Théodule Ribot
Saint Sebastian, Martyr
ca. 1865
Oil on canvas
18 ¼ × 21 5/8 in
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Why the best art is meaningless | Jonathan Jones
“Real art doesn’t have a message, doesn’t necessarily say anything. It is an arrangement of shapes, a pattern of words. If you want an antidote to this idea of art, watch Bob Dylan manically arranging and rearranging words on a shop sign he and the band spotted one day. That is art.”
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“The thing that’s interesting as you get older as an artist is that the biggest challenge seems to be: how do you stay relevant?”
Robert Longo
Untitled (Athena)
Charcoal on mounted paper
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“Impressionism was the name given to a certain form of observation when #Monet, not content with using his eyes to see what things were or what they looked like as everybody had done before him, turned his attention to noting what took place on his own retina (as an oculist would test his own vision).”
JohnSingerSargent
The Black Brook
c.1908
Oil paint on canvas
552 × 698 mm
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“Artists: What would you say if I told you that is all but an absolute certainty that no one on earth will be thinking about your work in 100 years.”
— Jerry Saltz
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“There are no guidelines for what happens when you get successful as an artist. My heroes were artists like Acconci, and he didn’t make any money. That’s what I thought success was.” — Robert Longo
Robert Longo Studio