portrait
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“I’m trying to make other people recognize something of themselves rather than me.”
Untitled #355, 2000, by Cindy Sherman
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This infamous Che Guevara painting is
actually a forgery created by Gerard Malanga (who was in need of money)
and sold to a gallery in Rome. When Warhol heard of the fraud, he
“authenticated” the fake, provided that all the money from sales went to
him.
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“My colour has no symbolic function whatever. I don’t want any colour to
be noticeable. I want the colour to be the colour of life, so that you
would notice it as being irregular if it changed. I don’t want it to
operate in the modernist sense as colour, something independent. I don’t
want people to say, “Oh, what was that red or that blue picture of
yours, I’ve forgotten what it was.”
Lucian Freud a Painted Life
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“It’s hard to be creative and it’s also hard not to think what you do
is creative or hard not to be called creative because everybody is
always talking about that and individuality. Everybody’s always
creative. And it is so funny when you say things aren’t, like the shoe I
would draw for an advertisement was called a ‘creation’, but the
drawing of it was not. There are millions of actors. They’re all
pretty good. And how many painters are there? Millions of painters and
all pretty good. How can you say one style is better then another. You
ought to be able to be an Abstract-expressionist next week, or a Pop artist, or a realist, without feeling you’re given up something.”
Mao (1972) by Andy Warhol
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“It’s
flesh without muscle and it has developed a different kind of texture
through bearing such a weight-bearing thing”.
“Benefits Supervisor Sleeping“ 1995 oil on canvas painting by Lucian Freud
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Art by Norman Rockwell
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“The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.”
The Rape by Rene Magritte