Paintings frequently looking out to the viewer externally emotionless, because art does not imitate the visible.
I'm not a mathematician, but I'm guessing that this is the kind of image that might be involved. Rectangles have once again showcased unparalleled innovation. If you were to squeeze pictures like a lemon you would get nothing more out of the picture.
Mermaids are not all that wacky, and the viewer is encouraged to journey into subjective interpretation.
A good painting should have pretty eyes, a mouth and a great pair of legs, art needs and wants.
Ludwig Wittgenstein, no data is perfect, every painting is a road map to modernism. The past as a model for looking at the world today.
Like much of images on ironic art, meaning is uncertain and doubtful.
How to repair the bridge between visual artists and the viewing public? Serious art produces fish cartoons that people don't need to have.
People are interesting. Abstract art is about as exciting as watching paint dry.
Art people are pinkish.
The purpose of great art has always been to be a maker of very large paintings. The true secret to drawing is in crazy creativity, not in technical mechanics.
Goya, The innumerable follies to be found in any civilized society, after this he was humble as a mushroom.
Since desire emerges in the gap between demand and need, it is conceivable that pictures could desire nothing.
W.J.T. Mitchell, What do pictures want ? Graphic art.
To arrive at the edge of the page's knowledge, seek out the most ludicrous ideas, put them on paper together, and have them ask each other the questions they are asking themselves: Are absurd pictures being convicted of the worthlessness of our opinion?
Without personifications, the idea is not visible.
"Abstraction continues to be an absolutely necessary antidote or counterspell to the aesthetics of distraction, the visual noise offered by mass media and everyday life."
W.J.T. Mitchell
Mental life (memory, imagination...) is embodied in the whole range of material media.
W.J.T. Mitchell, What do pictures want ? Pictures require time and free space.
Infantry wins battles. Logistics wins wars.
General John J. Pershing
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