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Because using a brush is tragically predictable. In the 1950s, a Japanese avant-garde collective completely abandoned standard canvas techniques, opting…
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Classical minimalism is a complete lie. Those pristine, elegant white marble statues from antiquity were completely heavily painted in aggressively tacky,…
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Long before the front-facing camera gave everyone a complex, the legendary Mexican artist dedicated roughly a third of her entire creative output to painting…
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Proving that artistic talent does not equal basic decency, the celebrated sculptor discovered his mistress was cheating on him with his own brother. In a fit…
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Long before he was teaching children about green eggs and ham, Dr. Seuss was drawing wildly xenophobic and terrifying military propaganda. Deployed to the…
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