Category: Paintings
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A triptych to live by
“View of Toledo,” by El Greco, “Guernica,” by Picasso, and “Repentant Magdalene,” by La Tour. Talking from these three paintings, I could pretty much tell you everything I think about the world.
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Objects Reading Books, by Marc Johns
There’s something kind of miraculous about this series of prints by Marc Johns, featuring household objects reading books. Marc says: There’s something very personal about books, so to have inanimate objects reading specific titles seemed like a pretty amusing idea worth exploring. I think these are gentle and even tender, in an offbeat way.
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Free ticket to Rome
No, not really. But this is the next best thing. StumbleUpon (which I am in danger of getting very addicted to very quickly) led me to a site by the Vatican, which puts you down in the middle of the Sistine Chapel, and lets you look around. No commentary besides a soft choir singing is…
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Paintings of people looking at paintings by Pablo Guzman
I’m a happily postmodern kid, so I like self-reference (to a certain point). To that end, this series titled Homenaje al cuadro by Pablo Guzman suits me just fine. I love that feeling as you go back and forth between the levels of the painting — trying to see what they’re seeing, then realizing that…