List: Art History and more | Curated by Jess the Avocado

Feb 24, 2025
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Art History and more
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Creativity Is Not a Luxury~ It’s More Like SustenancePerfection or art for art’s sake? And days to be alive
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6d ago
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Emotions Drive Your City: How Affect Shapes Our LivesYou don’t understand spaces, you feel them.
Jan 11
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Jan 11
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Grief: Can Art and Zen Be Antidote? The Relentless Patience of PenelopeRunning through water-deep halls to reach a dancing Ulysses. For Tina Bottazzo
May 16, 2024
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May 16, 2024
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The Lana Del Rey Paradox and Why We Enjoy Sad Music and ArtReflections on life and art, and scientific evidence in favour of complexity
Nov 6, 2024
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Nov 6, 2024
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The Beauty of HorrorBeautiful nightmares and an appetite for violence: the old marriage of like and fear
Aug 30, 2024
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Aug 30, 2024
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The Horror of BeautyArt, romanticism, unknown literature and an existential crisis
Apr 1, 2024
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Apr 1, 2024
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Confessions of a Dysfunctional Art LoverDon’t read these rumblings, cause they went somewhere else…
Sep 6, 2022
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Sep 6, 2022
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Art Lovers Welcome
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A Collection Of Artist StatementsArtist statements may help us understand the philosophy, politics, and inner depths of the artists’ world
Aug 22, 2022
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Aug 22, 2022
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Rebellion is a Process: A Muslim Artist’s Journey to NudesA brief view on Ahmad Zakii Anwar’s work
Jun 7, 2023
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Jun 7, 2023
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Can Art Make People Environmentally Conscious?Will art save the planet?
Apr 17, 2023
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Apr 17, 2023
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Caravaggio and MeditationReflections.
Mar 17, 2023
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Mar 17, 2023
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5 Facts about Van Gogh You Probably Didn’t KnowIdyllic childhood sceneries and Japanese prints.
Mar 1, 2023
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Mar 1, 2023
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Art, Nudity, and LonelinessExploring concepts of loneliness as vulnerability and strength through the single nude work of art
Nov 23, 2022
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Nov 23, 2022
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Art and LonelinessOn the art of loneliness, and the electric, eclectic, and eccentric lives of lonely artists. Sort of.
Nov 5, 2022
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Nov 5, 2022
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If You’re Looking for a New, Artistic Passion (Or Hobby), You Might Want to Start from The Great…A tv competition made of clay and tears, with the power of redirecting your thoughts to art and slow living.
Nov 1, 2022
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Nov 1, 2022
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Jupiter and Callisto: Beautiful Paintings for a Horrible ActDisguise, shame, and punishment. The heart-breaking myth of Callisto.
Oct 22, 2022
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Oct 22, 2022
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Who Was Rothko Before the Blocks of ColourDiscovering an artist between representation, architecture, and emotions
Oct 8, 2022
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Oct 8, 2022
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Desperation: Can We Find Meaning and Comfort in Our Passions?Life is hard, we should aim at making it less hard for ourselves.
Oct 4, 2022
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Oct 4, 2022
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Christianity Ruined It for the Nude Body in ArtCovering up penises, Adam and Eve, and the science of a body
Sep 29, 2022
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Sep 29, 2022
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Goya and The Goat Satan.Rebellion to authority, and new ways of worship
Sep 15, 2022
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Sep 15, 2022
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