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“Yet more than an economic collapse, what we’re witnessing is a narrative breakdown: the system has lost the story that once gave value its meaning.”

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greuze:

William Adolphe Bouguereau, Portrait of Gabrielle Cot (Detail), 1890

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“There are a lot of things that got me into working with photos. The main thing is that I saw both what was being said and not being said with photos in the newspapers… I found out how you can fool people with photos, really fool them… You can lie and tell the truth by putting the wrong title or wrong captions under them, and that’s roughly what was being done.”

John Heartfield
Adolf, the Superman, Swallows Gold and Spouts Tin
1932
Photomontage

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donotdestroy:

“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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demonsandgods:

“Le Naiadi” (1881) – Gioacchino Pagliei

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Jenny Holzer in “Protest” – Season 4 – “Art in the Twenty-First Century” | Art21

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donotdestroy:

“It is important to express oneself…provided the feelings are real and are taken from you own experience.”

Berthe Morisot (1841-1895)
Après le déjeuner
1881
oil on canvas
31 7/8 x 39 3/8 in.
Price realised
GBP 6,985,250

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