“Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.” – René Magritte https://t.co/GUiTMneNu6
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“I wanted to be in conversation with Oppenheim’s work, traveling through time to the intimacy of the artist staring at a piece of paper and making a mark to build on later. Or just making a mark to prove her existence in that moment.” — River L. Ramirez https://t.co/bcNwgLPOuX
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« Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable », said the Mexican poet and academic, Cesar A. Cruz, a line later repeated by British street artist, Banksy. #art Slave Labour, 2012 by ©️ Banksy https://t.co/mijMQCkZcf
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Ditch the Sunday Scaries with a trip to LACMA! 🌟 Galleries are open from 10 am - 7 pm today, reserve your tickets now: https://t.co/Ovpi5c2TTY Artwork: Francisca Goya y Lucientes, "Don't Scream, Stupid," etching and burnished aquatint, 1799. https://t.co/0i3VvnQ6CA
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Sleeping Sun, Me, Oil, 2023
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What's hiding in the forest, Erinthul, self-portrait photography, 2022.
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Born in 1898 to tailor and hat maker Léopold and Régina Magritte, René Magritte became famous for creating a number of thought-provoking and mind-bending works of art. 🖼 René Magritte, “La condition humaine,” 1933, 39 x 31 in., Gift of the Collectors Committee
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“I always find myself returning to the vessel. It is part of the intellectual life force of my practice and it precedes all other forms of making.” —Theaster Gates https://t.co/j2FsNPsszL
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📖 Read four responses to #MeretOppenheim’s provocative work on #MoMAMagazine → https://t.co/u08NsPOLAJ 🎨 See nearly 200 works that offer a wide retrospective view of Oppenheim’s lifelong innovation in #MOMyExhibition → https://t.co/zUCb2KY65N
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Dancing Around the Art Gallery 🕺🏼 Installation by teekenng 🎵 Polo & Pan - Ani Kuni https://t.co/oE0nOixjVV
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Over the centuries people have found, and continue to find, interesting and important objects from long-vanished civilizations. Take a look at 10 of the most important archaeological treasures. https://t.co/J9qkoXOFeq https://t.co/FbGsiENvuh
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In his 1933 painting, “The Human Condition,” the artist perfectly embodies what is known as “mise en abyme,” a formal technique of placing an image within an image, often in a way that suggests an infinitely recurring sequence.
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