“Frequently claimed by critics as the best Venezuelan film ever made, El pez que fuma, (1977) was produced in the midst of the Oil Boom era and has since become a potent metaphor for the decadence at the height of Venezuela’s economic splendor.”
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“On a more personal level, the work is also about dignity. About whose inner life is considered worth depicting and whose is treated as background noise. If that unsettles viewers or makes them feel implicated rather than reassured, that’s intentional.”
“He loved nature and the Hudson Valley landscape so much — and I think we all need to be inspired by that or there will be no icebergs left to paint.”
“Ifeoluwapo applies this method because her work goes to the heart of what it means to be a woman in a world in which a woman has to conform to different roles within and outside the confines of what she calls home.”
“It delved into photographs’ potential as a way to arrive at a photographic vision and a photographic philosophy of seeing.”
I myself have been tempted for a long time by the cloud-moving wind — filled with a strong desire to wander.
Beautiful essay and paintings from Robert Beck.
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Working with soot, spit, and found objects, James Castle produced beautiful art.
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