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Visual Arts
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We create art, and those artworks shape us into what we are. We, as human beings, are capable of creating art. Or, perhaps, because of these arts, we have the capacity to become humans humanely.
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― Art Adventure: Visual Arts
― Art Adventure: Visual Arts
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Picasso and Modigliani’s ‘Venuses’ represent a sort of iconoclasm in their self-conscious rejection of the cold, perfectly-finished, stuffy beauty of the Western tradition of art. For the contemporary viewer they have become a reassuring confirmation of left-of-centre politics, of anti-establishment positions and of an intellectual kudos that doesn’t need art to look classical to be meaningful. And the frankness of the male artist’s unflinchingly libidinal vision is taken as evidence of the sepa
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― Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies
― Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies
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