Things I’d stare at forever, had I the time.

Pablo Picasso, Head of a Man with a Hat (1912)

Marcel Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase (1912)

Kasimir Malevich, Composition with the Mona Lisa (1914)

Vasily Kandinsky, Panel for Edwin R. Campbell No. 4 (1914)

Kasimir Malevich, Black Square (1915)

Henri Matisse, The Piano Lesson (1916)

Jean (Hans) Arp, Untitled (Collage with Squares Arranged according to the Laws of Chance) (1917)

Marcel Duchamp, To Be Looked at (from the Other Side of the Glass) with One Eye, Close to, for Almost an Hour (1918)

Stuart Davis, Lucky Strike (1921)

Vasily Kandinsky, Several Circles No. 323 (1926)

René Magritte, The Treachery of Images (1929)

Pablo Picasso, Guernica (1937)

Frida Kahlo, Thinking About Death (1943)

Joseph Kosuth, Art as Idea as Idea (1966-68)

I was supposed to write about the things I’ve been up to the last two or so weeks –new books and TV series and people– but instead this post came out. I was reading books on art yesterday, in that window of time when I had nothing to do (in between class and debate training), so I suppose that explains it. This post is actually queued; I hope I woke up in time for class.

These are some of the works of art that interest me the most, maybe because of the feelings they evoke or their history. A couple of them make me laugh whenever I think of them, which is always a plus.

I’ll probably hopefully maybe update this someday. Belatedly I noticed that most of the ones featured here are Western art from the early to mid-twentieth century. Well, my preferred style has always been against naturalistic and realistic expressions. I’ll have to visit more local and Asian museums to diversify. (But if I had to concede to anything, I’ll concede to Botticelli, and the Sistine Chapel, and honestly a lot of works I salivated over that time I went to the Louvre/Vaticani.)

Art is art is art, and art alone exists forever. 

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