John Currin
children playing before a statue of hercules
IF THERE IS ONE PLACE WHERE IT IS IDIOTIC TO SHAM IT IS BEFORE A WORK OF ART.
—Ezra Pound, The Serious Artist
—Ezra Pound, The Serious Artist
Art, be it poetry, music, sculpture, puppetry—the whole of it, inspires change on a personal level rather than a global one. This is important because the individual is the whole. The creation of art argues that people are connected, ideas are connected, the past and future are connected by this moment.
—Jamaal May, interviewed by Stacey Balkun for The Normal School (via bostonpoetryslam)
The bourgeois want art voluptuous and life ascetic; the reverse would be better.
—Theodor Adorno, Aesthetic Theory.
(via imkrebsgang)
(via imkrebsgang)
Markus Amm - Untitled, 2014
oil on gesso board
35 x 30 cm (13.7 x 11.8 in)
Egon Schiele - Selbstportrait als Hl. Sebastian (Self Portrait as St. Sebastian, 1914)
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