Art for art’s sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of truth, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I am searching for.
‘bani thani’, a recreation of the mona lisa by rajasthani artist gopal swami khetanchi
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»a small bouquet by frank o’hara« by natalie czech
natalie czech uses calligrams in an attempt to confront and intertwine text and image. she reverses the process established for hidden poems of inscribing a poem into an existing text structure. the source material is not a pre-existing text fragment, but a picture poem. natalie czech invited seven writers - andrew berardini, julien bismuth, maia gianakos, leslie-ann murray, mick peter, nathania rubin and alix rule - to each write a text that contains the same calligram by the american poet, frank o’hara (1926 - 66). the texts were precisely composed around the calligram, so as to embed it in their very fabric, and thus dissolve its iconicity. natalie czech presents these texts as photographs of book pages and re-presents the calligram by marking its component words in the photographs.
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Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that
(Source: sufiness, via pakistancurates)
(Source: keep-calm-goodness-still-exists, via pakistancurates)
from ” mist ” series | ink on canvas | 2011 | azra aghighi bakhshayeshi | via homa art gallery