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July 20th, 2010

How Sigmund Freud Interpreted Eduoard Manet’s “Olympia”

Tags/Donald Kuspit, Édouard Manet, Manet, Olympia, psychology, Sigmund Freud Posted by Chris Al-Aswad

What season is it, Cy, when all the birds get dragged back

One way to interpret a work of art like a painting, is to think of it as dream made manifest in the physical world. Though Freud’s theories have been questioned by many thinkers, we will use his method of dream interpretation as an approach to analyzing a painting.

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July 20th, 2010

Jose Garcia Montebravo

Tags/Drawing, José Garcia Montebravo Posted by Scott Rothstein

If you want to discover your mind burn your house to the ground

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José Garcia Montebravo is a self taught artist. Even though he does not have a formal art education, he is an educated man with an understanding of art, both current and historic.

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July 20th, 2010

Lives of the Artists: Dean Monogenis

Tags/Dean Monogenis, painting Posted by Chris Al-Aswad

trying to shut the howling of the whistle out of my sleep trying to get back to a memory that aroused me once upon a time taking the Night

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My work investigates the incongruous architectural elements in contemporary urban environments. The original impetus behind this exploration, which I’ve been doing for the last 8 years, was the catastrophic events of 9/11 and the impact these events had on our environment, and subsequently, society itself.

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July 19th, 2010