Art History

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I'm never drawing the object itself; I'm only drawing a depiction of the object - a kind of crystallized symbol of it.

I'd always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn't.

—Roy Lichtenstein

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look_Mickey

A personal favorite, Giacomo Balla's analysis on the relatively new art form of cinema in the context of painting (see chronophotography and fellow Futurist Anton Giulio Bragaglia).

Despite Futurism's connection to fascism, great art is great art.

From absolutely prehistoric 1972, the BBC's influential and still-relevant Ways of Seeing, by the late John Berger and Mike Dibb.

• Part I
• Part II
• Part III
• Part IV

Never seen it? See it! Seen it already? See it again!

Image: The Interpretation of Dreams (La clef des songes), René Magritte,1935.

Sneakers and Purple Panties, Tom Wesselmann, 1981

Image courtesy of The Tom Wesselmann Estate/The Wildenstein Plattner Institute