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Lone Wolf

John Berger

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“Oil paintings often depict things. Things which in reality are buyable. To have a thing painted and put on a canvas is not quite unlike buying it and putting it in your house.If you buy a painting you buy also the look of the thing it represents.”

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“What distinguishes oil painting from any other form of painting is its special ability to render the tangibility, the texture, the lustre, the solidity of what it depicts.”

Mirzoeff

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“The point here is that we do not actually “see” with our eyes but with our brain.”

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“Seeing the world is not about how we see but about what we make of what we see. We put together an understanding of the world that makes sense from what we already know or think we know.”

Wangechi Mutu at Met

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““The work of these women is immense. The regard for them is not.” That complicated social position is reflected in the caryatids’ striking discs, which relate back to lip plates and crowns and heavy earrings. Along with filed teeth and scarification, they can cause women substantial pain. The status they confer is costly in more ways than one.”

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“Always aware of the “where art history has positioned the female body,” generally as the passive subject of painting, she notes that “in classical African art, the female body in some instances is the museum — she is where the art is placed.””

The Feminist Challenge of Wangechi Mutu

“Here, atop a millennial-pink palette and leaping between two panels of opposing gravitational forces, the figure represents the feminist challenge—woman as both warrior and creator. The dualities and even multiplicities in the work are as tangled as the coiled serpent.”

Wangechi Mutu Exhibition at Brooklyn Museum

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“Mutu is best known for spectacular and provocative collages depicting female figures—part human, animal, plant, and machine—in fantastical landscapes that are simultaneously unnerving and alluring, defying easy categorization and identification.”