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Time to get cracking! Chickpea salad doesn’t just yassify itself…
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It’s always something isn’t it?
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It was a great, and timely, warning! I’m not sure why it didn’t sink in.
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Pretty good! What about a kamikaze pilot? Looks dead on target with little regard for himself, to me.
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Obvious BICYCLE
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Also extremely effective, no?
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A bientot, Minneso-ta. :p
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The way he asks Paul that question is heart breaking. Thought it made for a perfect outro.
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Isn’t it a good thing they’re institutionalized. Imagine if they were just out walking on the streets?!
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Why, what happened there?
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I did not know that! Fun to know there was some cross border division of creation way back in the medieval ages!
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Edward Kienholz - The Illegal Operation.
Her body, her choice - period.
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Joe Ray - US.
This painting was made in 1993, after Rodney King’s beating and it made me think about Ross Gay’s ‘A Small Needful Fact’, which is about Eric Garner.
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Rene Magritte - The Treachery of Images (This is Not a Pipe).
So… what am I looking at here??? 🤔
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Lyonel Feininger - Village in Thuringia.
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Camille Pissarro - The Path to Les Pouileux, Pontoise and Peasant House at Eragny.
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Henri Matisse - Tea.
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Morgan Russell - Sketch for Synchromy in Blue-Violet.
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Andre Masson - The Vertigo of the Hero.
Did I mention I like colour? I don’t always need a Pollock like bukkake - a good mix is enough!
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Or these cool urban sketches by George Grosz!
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The main collection also has some works worth going for alone.
Take this prophetic painting from 1913…
Ludwig Meidner - Apocalyptic Landscape.
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Yasmine Nasser Diaz - Hanna bint (daughter of) Ghamar.
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Sherin Guirguis - Storming Parliament I.
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Lalla Essaydi - Reclining Odalisque.
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Gulay Semercioglu - The Flower Inside Me.
Is that a little Georgia O’Keeffe?
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Laila Shawa - Disposable Bodies 4 (Shahrazad).
Shades of Damien Hirst to me…
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Hayv Kahraman - Search and Indian Poker.
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Women Defining Women was also great, and showcased Islamic women’s art.
Shirin Aliabadi- Miss Hybrid No. 3.
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Because these still life paintings are not just studies, but displays of wealth, stolen from colonized worlds.
And it made for an interesting way to learn how to view these works.
Willem Kalf - Still Life with a Porcelain Vase, Silver-Gilt Ewer, and Glasses.
Willem Claesz - Tobacco Still Life.
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And the spoils of empire just kept rolling in.
Man’s Tunic, Peru.
Abraham van Beyeren - Banquet Still Life.
Which lends a new meaning of reclamation in modern reinterpretations of this art period.
Sithabile Mlotshwa - A Phoenix of the Dutch Republic.
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And reinforced views of superiority via religious art.
Antonia Tempesta - God Creating the Birds and the Fish.
Jan Pietersz, Saenredam - Adam Naming the Animals.
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And their understanding of the world grew with contact with new countries, at the expense of the indigenous populations of those places.
Great Tulip Book: Admirael der Admiraels de Gouda, and Gesner’s Tulip, Ichneumon Fly, Kidney Bean, and Scarlet Runner Bean.
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Items like these boxes flooded in from the Ryukyu Islands and Turkey, respectively.
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Hendrick Doncker - A New Map of the Whole World by Frederick de Wit.
And then they set their eyes on the outside world, to apply the same tactics the Spanish had used to enrich themselves and play ‘catch up’ with the rest of Europe.
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Jan van de Velde II - Water.
These were the beginning of the exhibit, setting up how the Dutch tried to assert a unified identity after gaining their independence from Spain.
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Armorial Tapestry, France or Flanders.
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The Dutch World started with some Rembrandt - Portrait of Marten Looten, and The Raising of Lazarus.
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Analia Saban - Draped Marble (Carrara, St. Laurant, Brown Onyx).
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Jesse Monongya - Monument Valley bolo tie.
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Unidentified - Mosaic Tabletop.
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Unidentified - The Palazzo Vecchio.
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Vincenzo Verdejo - Portrait of Pope Pius VII.
These pieces were tiny, can only imagine what working on this was like.
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First up, stonework! It’s related to mosaic work and honestly, this blew my mind!
Grand Ducal Workshops - Portrait of Pope Clement VIII.
Look at that detail work!
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And of course, the final mural, with its pixel art head was a cool way to return back to the real world.
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I recently read something that equated Little Richard with the colour purple and being a freak.
Changes how I view that last painting…
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There’s no buying a stairway to heaven, but maybe you can visit for a bit…
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And of course the payoff is Paradise.
I spent the most time here, and circled back a couple times.
His use of a red pen to reinforce the perspective is great.