Zen Pencils by Gavin Aung Than for November 19, 2018

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    DangerBunny  almost 6 years ago

    Saw this and his studies for it at the MOMA in ’78. Truly great work. His machine killed fascists as well.

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    Willywise52 Premium Member almost 6 years ago

    Powerful!

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    SmashedHat  almost 6 years ago

    Wow!

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    fuzzbucket Premium Member almost 6 years ago

    Title this “A cubist, cubed”.

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    Teto85 Premium Member almost 6 years ago

    Many years ago my aunt and uncle and cousin we’re on vacation. One day at the beach they spotted Picasso. They sent my cousin over to him with a napkin and a felt pen of some sort, hoping to get an autograph. Picasso took the napkin and blew his nose. He then spent the next half hour drawing all over my cousin. My aunt had the good sense to take photos.

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    sperry532  almost 6 years ago

    It is the business of art to be dangerous and the business of the artist to speak his/her truth. Art. Is. Dangerous.

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    Kind&Kinder  almost 6 years ago

    Art doesn’t reach inside us; it elicits what’s in our hearts. “Guernica” brings the horror out of us; Snoopy dancing brings out our joy. We are all vulnerable to art, each in his/her own way.

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    Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo]  almost 6 years ago

    The tide of autocracy and suppression or those longing for central control in Hungary, Brazil, Greece etc.

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    StephenRice  almost 6 years ago

    The problem with this is that it’s one-sided. It is good to point out evil; it is better to point out what’s good. We need not just a vision of what’s wrong, of what shouldn’t be, but a vision of what’s right, of what should be. That is much harder—a task for true genius.

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    bscruffy  almost 6 years ago

    I confess to being lazy fan of the arts, passively demanding that an art piece reach out and smack me in the eyeballs. Most abstract art is…work, but “Guernica” has for decades haunted my memory.

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