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FELLINI ~ ON ART

in Just a bit of everything and everyone... by

“All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.”
Federico Fellini

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Still life by Giorgio Morandi

THE SURREALITY OF GIORGIO MORANDI

THE SURREALITY/REALITY OF GIORGIO MORANDI. Giorgio Morandi (1890 -1964) was an Italian painter and printmaker. “There is nothing more surreal,

OSKAR KOKOSCHKA ~ DREAMS AND VISIONS

in Art & the Unconscious Mind/Passion Of Art by

True dreams and visions should be as visible to the artist as the phenomena of the objective world.

Oskar Kokoschka

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BRETT WHITELEY ~ THE MEANING OF EXISTENCE

in Passion Of Art by

The fine art of painting, which is the bastard of alchemy, always has been always will be, a game. The rules of the game are quite simple: in a given arena, on as many psychic fronts as the talent allows, one must visually describe, the centre of the meaning of existence.

Brett Whiteley (Australian artist, 1939-1992)



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Still life by Giorgio Morandi

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THE SURREALITY/REALITY OF GIORGIO MORANDI. Giorgio Morandi (1890 -1964) was an Italian painter and printmaker. “There is nothing more surreal,

MARK ROTHKO ~ THE ESSENCE OF ACADEMICISM

in Art of the Subconscious ~ Abstract Expressionism by

It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism. There is no such thing as good painting about nothing.

Mark Rothko

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Still life by Giorgio Morandi

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THE SURREALITY/REALITY OF GIORGIO MORANDI. Giorgio Morandi (1890 -1964) was an Italian painter and printmaker. “There is nothing more surreal,

BRANCUSI ~ THE ESSENCE OF THINGS

in Art & the Unconscious Mind/Passion Of Art by

What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things . . . it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface.

Constantin Brancusi

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Still life by Giorgio Morandi

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THE SURREALITY/REALITY OF GIORGIO MORANDI. Giorgio Morandi (1890 -1964) was an Italian painter and printmaker. “There is nothing more surreal,

IN GIACOMETTI’S STUDIO

The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity. (Alberto Giacometti)

JAMES ENSOR ~ ON HIS ART

in Passion Of Art by

“My art tends toward the literary. My pictures tend toward the outskirts of painting: But why generalize? It is possible to realize one thing or another, according to the impressions gained from one point of view or another. But it is too difficult to make a general rule.”

— James Ensor

Photo James Ensor and Ernest Rousseau on the beach near Oostende (Belgium) ca. 1892

James Ensor, Masks Confronting Death (1888)

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GEORGIA O'KEEFFE ~ ON PAINTING

in Just a bit of everything and everyone.../Passion Of Art by

“So I said to myself-I’ll paint what I see-what the flower is to me but I’ll paint it big and they will be surprised into taking the time to look at it-I will make even busy New Yorkers take time to see what I see of flowers.”
Georgia O’Keeffe on Painting

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Still life by Giorgio Morandi

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THE SURREALITY/REALITY OF GIORGIO MORANDI. Giorgio Morandi (1890 -1964) was an Italian painter and printmaker. “There is nothing more surreal,

GEORGIA O’KEEFFE ~ ON PAINTING

in Just a bit of everything and everyone.../Passion Of Art by

“So I said to myself-I’ll paint what I see-what the flower is to me but I’ll paint it big and they will be surprised into taking the time to look at it-I will make even busy New Yorkers take time to see what I see of flowers.”
Georgia O’Keeffe on Painting

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Still life by Giorgio Morandi

THE SURREALITY OF GIORGIO MORANDI

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EDWARD BURNE-JONES ~ THE DEPTHS OF THE SEA

in Art Nouveau by

The Depths of the Sea (1887) by Sir Edward Burne-Jones
Two weighless figures are buoyed up by the water surrounding them in this unusual underwaterview. Pre-Raphaelite painters such as Burne-Jones were fascinated with drowning; this preoccupution, part of a general preference for morbid subjects, was also popular with Art Nouveau.

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Still life by Giorgio Morandi

THE SURREALITY OF GIORGIO MORANDI

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MOORE ~ ON PAINTINGS

in Passion Of Art by

“The many great paintings of the world, all make the point as clear as possible:

The soul cannot thrive in the absence of art. If you don’t want the pleasure of art, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don’t have a soul.”

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