African art

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continue... 29 January 2011 // Art
 
Es muss sein!

Es muss sein!

A short weekend playlist, dedicated to the defiance against whatever dominates and directs our lives.

Stop doing what is expected or is demanded but what ...

 
continue... 29 January 2011 // Music
 
Street Art in the wild

Street Art in the wild

Gang signals? Controversies? Graffiti continues to create disagreement amongst city officials and graffitists who wish to display and appreciate work in public locations...

Critical opinion ...

 
continue... 28 January 2011 // Art
 
Photomontage Technique

Photomontage Technique

Technique by which a composite photographic image is formed by combining images from separate photographic sources. The term was coined by Berlin Dadaists c. 1918 and ...

 
continue... 24 January 2011 // Art
 
Magic Realism in visual art and literature

Magic Realism in visual art and literature

Magic realism, in a broader perceptive has come to signify an aesthetic style or genre of fiction in which magical elements are blended into a ...

 
continue... 24 January 2011 // Art, Literature
 
One Hundred Years of Solitude

One Hundred Years of Solitude

What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.

One Hundred Years of Solitude by ...

 
continue... 23 January 2011 // Literature
 

Nietzsche and the Artist

Art and nothing but art! It is the great means of making life possible, the great seduction to life, the great stimulant of life.
The Will to Power by Nietzsche.

In Beyond Good and Evil Nietzsche gave a neat description of his view of man as the unification of the two poles of creature and creator (Nietzsche, 1973, p.155). This complemented the twin tendencies of his writings to emphasize, on the ...

 
continue... 20 January 2011 // Literature
 
Collage Stories

Collage Stories

Collage has a relatively short, but incredibly rich history. Dating back to the early 1900s, it first emerged in the work of artists such as ...

 
continue... 19 January 2011 // Art
 
 
 
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