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aug232012 by Hiroshi Matsumoto
20th December 2012
Tags: art
by Luci Everett
13th June 2012
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Flight Over Europe by Lee Barguss
11th June 2012
Tags: art crafts
Augustus Waters by rocketrictic
3rd June 2012
Tags: art john green watercolor
by Darshan Phillips
30th May 2012
Tags: Architecture art design
I can & I will by Able Design
22nd May 2012
Tags: Typography art design
Aaron Smith, “Blower”, 2011, oil on panel, 20” x 20” by Mucksnipe
22nd May 2012
Tags: painting portrait art
p e r s e p h o n e & a m e l i a. by Daphne Oude Geerdink
22nd May 2012
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by Frances Waite Art
20th May 2012
Tags: art Typography
The Museum of Modern Art, MoMA Highlights, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, revised 2004, originally published 1999, p. 155 Oppenheim’s fur-lined teacup is perhaps the single most notorious Surrealist object. Its subtle perversity was inspired by a conversation between Oppenheim, Pablo Picasso, and the photographer Dora Maar at a Paris café: admiring Oppenheim’s fur-trimmed bracelets, Picasso remarked that one could cover just about anything with fur. “Even this cup and saucer,” Oppenheim replied. In the 1930s, many Surrealist artists were arranging found objects in bizarre combinations that challenged reason and summoned unconscious and poetic associations. Object—titled Le Déjeuner en fourrure (The lunch in fur ) by the Surrealist leader André Breton—is a cup and saucer that was purchased at a Paris department store and lined with the pelt of a Chinese gazelle. The work takes advantage of differences in the varieties of sensual pleasure: fur may delight the touch but it repels the tongue. And a cup and spoon, of course, are made to be put in the mouth. A small concave object covered with fur, Object may also have a sexual connotation and politics: working in a male-dominated art world, perhaps Oppenheim was mocking the prevailing “masculinity” of sculpture, which conventionally adopts a hard substance and vertical orientation that can be seen as almost absurdly self-referential. Chic, wry, and simultaneously attractive and disturbing, Object is shrewdly and quietly aggressive. by Erin
18th May 2012
Tags: art sculpture
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