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Paul Mathias Padua portrayed Benito Mussolini three times. In February 1945 Italian dictator Benito Mussolini sat for a Padua portrait. ‘When I finished the picture of Il Duce he looked long and hard at it, then at me. He told me it was the best portrait if himself he’d ever seen, but that he was afraid it was also his last… He was killed two months later’,
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“What the reactionary says never interests anybody. Neither at the time he says it, because it seems absurd, nor after a few years, because it seems obvious.”
Nicolás Gómez Dávila
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James Yunge-Bateman
The Outside Viewing-tank: Directorate of Camouflage, Naval Section (1943)
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Alfred Barr’s famous 1936 chart tracing the development and influences of Cubism and Abstract Art for the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). It maps how movements like Fauvism, Futurism, and Neo-Impressionism evolved into non-geometrical and geometrical abstract art over nearly five decades.
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ufo mcdonald's (1993)
alconbury, cambridgeshire, england
deceased (demolished)
repost by popular demand
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Edward John Burra (1905 – 1976)
War in the Sun (1938)
Bal des Pendus (Dance of the Hanged Men) (1937)
The British artist E. Burra painted and lived in Spain but had to flee back to England when the Spanish Civil War broke out in 1936.
The violence, terror, and social unrest he witnessed and followed from afar deeply darkened his style, shifting his work away from earlier satirical humor into macabre, uncompromising commentaries on war.
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