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Originally Posted by mordecai 

This is incredible

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/432748/20130207/courbet-origin-world-head-painting.htm

Originally Posted by mordecai 

This is incredible

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/432748/20130207/courbet-origin-world-head-painting.htm

Originally Posted by mordecai 

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Originally Posted by dopey 

I like this

There is no reason why people should not call themselves Cubists, or Octagonists, or Parallelopipedonists, or Knights of the Isosceles Triangle, or Brothers of the Cosine, if they so desire; as expressing anything serious and permanent, one term is as fatuous as another. Take the picture which for some reason is called “A naked man going down stairs.” There is in my bath-room a really good Navajo rug which, on any proper interpretation of the Cubist theory, is a far more satisfactory and decorative picture. Now if, for some inscrutable reason, it suited somebody to call this rug a picture of, say, “A well-dressed man going up a ladder,” the name would fit the facts just about as well as in the case of the Cubist picture of the “Naked man going down stairs.” From the standpoint of terminology, each name would have whatever merit inheres in a rather cheap straining after effect; and from the standpoint of decorative value, of sincerity, and of artistic merit, the Navajo rug is infinitely ahead of the picture.