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74Wooden Cigar Store Indians
In many people's opinion, the wooden cigar store Indian is a stereotypically demeaning portrayal of the Native American. Since the 20th century the cigar store Indian has become less common for a variety of reasons. Such as sidewalk-obstruction...
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61The Fine Line Between Madness, Genius and Surrealism: Salvador Dali
In 1929 Dali held his first one-man show in Paris. He also joined the surrealists, led by former Dadaist Andre Breton. That year, Dali met Gala Eluard when she visited him in Cadaques with her husband, poet...
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70Quotes from True Genius: Pablo Picasso
Accidents, try to change them it's impossible. The accidental reveals man. Action is the foundational key to all success. All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. ...
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60Tragic Genius: Quotes from Jackson Pollock
Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was. ...
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61Tragic Genius: Quotes from Vincent Van Gogh
I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed. I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate. An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must...
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57From a Photo circa 1918
Isn't it amazing this INCREDIBLE photo taken IN 1918, so many years ago, STILL exists? Now someone has put it online for us to see. It is 18,000 men preparing for war in a training camp at Camp Dodge in...
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57Tragic Genius: Quotes from Frida Kahlo
My painting carries with it the message of pain. I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best I think that little by little I'll be able to solve my problems and...
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