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The Bill Watterson Interview - The Comics Journal

#art | In my case, I’m convinced that licensing would sell out the soul of Calvin and Hobbes. The world of a comic strip is much more fragile than most people realize. Once you’ve given up its integrity, that’s it. I want to make sure that never happens. Instead of asking what’s wrong with rampant commercialism, we ought to be asking, “What justifies it?” Popular art does not have to pander to the lowest level of intelligence and taste.

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Anne Carson: The Sheer Velocity and Ephemerality of Cy Twombly ‹ Literary Hub

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Spanking, Signing, Reading: On the Medieval Use of Hands ‹ Literary Hub

#history #art | Hands are conspicuous in this piece. They touch, slap, pat, hitch, point, grope, caress, spank. The more we look, the more of them we see. The woman whose skirt the man is under rests her left hand on his head, her right at the same time pointing with a strangely elongated finger upward to the assembled crowd. The pair of spankers hitch up their skirts with grabbing motions. The bearded figure in the lower left, who presumably is up—or should that be under—next seems to be using his hands to part the crowd, edging his way between the women with flattened palms.

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Alexander the Great Trusts Doctor Philip

#medicine #alexandriana #art | This masterpiece by Siemiradzki recalls several critical aspects of the unbreakable link of the patient-physician relationship, which is the first step of the healing process. As contemporary medicine continues to progress through the exponential growth of new technologies, new diagnostic and therapeutic techniques, big data analysis, machine learning, and telemedicine, we live a time when several external factors threaten this eternal relationship. The echoes that come to us from Alexander of Macedon’s world provide a beacon of hope and humanity in a rapidly changing world, showing that the patient-physician relationship will continue to endure.

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Family of Darius before Alexander by TIEPOLO, Giovanni Battista

#alexandriana #art | just read an essay that hypothesized that the weird proportions of Alexander and Hephaestion in this painting were in imitation of the beauty ideal of castrati at the time

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The Story of Noah’s Ark, Retold | The New Yorker

#religion #art | God’s love of her creations had eroded imperceptibly over time. But the way she felt about Noah- it was a new way to feel.

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Wil Wheaton explains why we should separate art from artists - Upworthy

#art #thoughts | I can't speak for the other actors, even the ones I know. But I will tell you, as an abuse survivor myself who never wanted to be in front of the camera when he was a kid: it's really okay for you to enjoy the work. The work is good and meaningful, and if nobody is going to watch it because of what one piece of shit did two decades ago, what was it all for? I'm not the pope of chilitown, so take this for what it's worth: I believe that when some piece of art is deeply meaningful to a person, for whatever reason, that art doesn't belong to the person who created it, if it ever did. It belongs to the person who found something meaningful in the art.

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Neogrigio — Seiichi Hayashi

#art | Woman doing casual things naked, by Seiichi Hayashi

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