kitsch meets art

Roy Lichtenstein - Girl with Ball (1961)

a postmodern awareness of the rules of art being broken is itself a form of hyper-elitism

Photography

If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug a camera.

- Lewis Hine

I photograph what I do not wish to paint and I paint what I cannot photograph.

- Man Ray

Picasso > Le Corbusier

It is a curious paradox that even the most materialist of us tend to value what might be called the useless above the useful. Useless not in the sense of being without purpose, but without utility, or at least with not much of it. Manolo Blahnik makes shoes that are harder to walk in and a lot more expensive than a pair of plimsolls, though they might be rather more helpful as part of a courtship display. A Ferrari attracts more attention than a Volkswagen, but is hardly a practical means of urban transport. And, at a more fundamental level, while art is useless, design is useful. So Picasso is a far more central figure to the culture of the twentieth century than Le Corbusier, and Guernica, if it were ever to be sold, would command a far higher price than the Unite d’Habitation.

- Deyan Sudjic

monument

Dan Flavin - "monument" for V. Tatlin 1/5 (1970)

authentic copy

I reproduce the work of important artists not as best as I could because that implies something different, as close as I could without copying it. When you copy something it becomes something else.

- Elaine Sturtevant

Elaine Sturtevant - Warhol diptych (1973)

Philanthropy for the Arts

In 2004, the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art paid a sum of said to be in excess of $45 million for a small Madonna and Child painted by the medieval Italian master Duccio.

Duccio di Buoninsegna - Madonna and Child (1300)

A dollar a day would feed this mother and child.

Unknown - Mother and Child (now)

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appropriation art