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Eric Roux-Fontaine (French, b. 1966, Savoy Region of France) - The Stars  Mixed Media: Pigments, Acrylics, Marble Dust on Canvas

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#fbf to this morning when I made all this

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Paul Klee - Memory of a Bird (1932)

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LUCIA KOCH transforms the interiors of humble paper bags and cardboard boxes— evoking contemporary architectural spaces through a shift in point of view before printing them at a monumental scale.

(thanks to likeafieldmouse for turning me on to this artist)

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Michal Trpak

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Robert Melee, Disco Trays

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Frederik Akum

In Antecipation

2013

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# 2716 “Get Together” on Flickr.

Scott Bergey

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Eternal Landscape

Buen Calubayan

2010-2013

Graphite and charcoal on tissue paper

4 x approx. 463 in.

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Debris

Mark Orozco Justiniani

2013

reflective media, lighting fixtures, woods, & objects

24 x 24 x 6.25 in.

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Art has to be a kind of confession. I don’t mean a true confession in the sense of that dreary magazine. The effort it seems to me, is: if you can examine and face your life, you can discover the terms with which you are connected to other lives, and they can discover them, too — the terms with which they are connected to other people. This has happened to every one of us, I’m sure. You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discovered it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky. This is a very great liberation for the suffering, struggling person, who always thinks that they are alone. This is why art is important. Art would not be important if life were not important, and life is important. Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark. Nobody knows what is going to happen to them from one moment to the next, or how one will bear it. This is irreducible. And it’s true for everybody. Now, it is true that the nature of society is to create, among its citizens, an illusion of safety; but it is also absolutely true that the safety is always necessarily an illusion. Artists are here to disturb the peace. They have to disturb the peace. Otherwise, chaos.

James Baldwin in an interview in 1961 (via steadfastinexile)

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Tawara Yūsaku

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Andy Goldsworthy

Sugar Maple Leaves

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Gerti Schiele in a Plaid Garment, Egon Schiele

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ART: Baitogogo by Henrique Oliveira

Brazilian artist Henrique Oliveira is known for his works that use organic forms for sculptural pieces and installations.

He brings his signature style to the Palais de Tokyo in his piece “Baitogogo,” which transforms an exhibition space into a convoluted jumble of tree limbs sprouting from within the room. 

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Sonia R. - The Wisdom, 2000

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Cy Twombly