Jackson Pollock Freedom and Originality

Source: OpPapers.com

“Modern art was all about freedom and originality” Introduction- Jackson Pollock was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. Abstract expressionism was developed in New York in the early 1950s and introd ...
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Palace Of Delusion

Source: Outlook India

Kamal Amrohi’s Mahal is our first reincarnation thriller One of the pleasures of celebrating a hundred years of cinema is revisiting films whose influence is profound and long-lasting even though they might not count among the greats. Kamal Amrohi’s Maha ...
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Antigonick, By Anne Carson The Watch, By Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya

Source: The Independent

So it is astute of Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya to transpose the Antigone tragedy to the battlefields of today's wars of religion in his new novel The Watch. This eight-sided book, set in Kandahar province, uses the voices of seven p ...
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55 and fabulous: West Palm woman transforms herself, wins national contest

Source: Palm Beach Post

When the Harper's Bazaar editors held out the dress they wanted her to wear, Alyssa di Edwardo laughed. That will never fit, she told them. In her brain was an older image of herself from the days she worried about her weight, when preparation for any b ...
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A Mirror That Plays Simple But Awesome Optical Tricks

Source: Fact or Design

For those who attend them, furniture fairs and "design weeks" are full of parties and relaxed lunches. But for those who exhibit at them--especially young designers--they can be fairly nerve-wracking. “Seeing our projects in Milan, London, Stockholm or P ...
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Source: Lahontan Valley News & Fallen Eagle Standard

“Girlchild” (Farrar, Straus ...
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Sensation and Cerebration

Source: The Daily Beast

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Two paths to abstraction

Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune

With the glories of antiquity long buried, the Western world spent 1,600 years perfecting the notion of realism in art, only to let it trickle away into the vast territory of abstraction by the early 20th century. The mutiny began with E ...
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Diego Rivera Bombs at Auction, Are Budget Cuts to Blame for Museum Crime Wave?, and More Must-Read Art News

Source: ArtInfo

– Wifredo Lam Sets New Record at Sotheby's, But Rivera Bombs Big Time : The Cuban surrealist's 1944 canvas "Idolo" fetched $4.56 million at last night's Latin American sale at Sotheby's , more than doubling the artist's prev ...
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