I think that museums today are conserving not only art objects, but the secret of the art. If your project is a copy of Marcel Duchamp, there is a goose in your art project, better than the birds of prey metaphor.
You don’t just give a moth four walls to live in. You give it something to be inspired by. Symbols for friendship. Internet was once about sharing, altruism and utopia. Sloths are used as metaphor for upside down art and slow painting.
Sloth is not a metaphorical picture for lazy artists but cool animals living in very tall trees cultivating the art of doing nothing. Looking at the reification of avoiding missing the forest for the trees: I'm way outside my comfort zone with this visual fragment of laziness and smart metaphor.
The figures suggestion of pregnancy is further indicated through the Chinese metaphor that reading a book nourishes the growth of ideas in the mind, like a child developing in the womb.
The old metaphor of naked truth generates a view of our world that is also not counterintuitive. These images sit somewhere between abstraction and figuration, a tangled game of hide-and-seek that plays with the visibility and readability of a paradox.
The big artist keeps an eye on nature and steals her tools.
Thomas Eakins, Love birds, and the metaphors they wing into our lives.
The real world is a difficult place for images because there is no place online for mixed art. The visual metaphors hold positions in order to survive what could be a long winter.
Andy Warhol, Water birds are outsider artists testing the waters before plunging in.
Self-portrait as a Pekingese soup. The best metaphor about art is life itself. Unfortunately, there is no magic bullet, I have long grutched the time spent with a cornball and a square.
Each simple image is a narrative that tells a story full of absurdity and uncertainty, knowing that large language models do know some things. Art as a metaphor for death.
Metaphorical caged canaries were placed in coal mines to warn of dangerous gases in the twentieth century. But the bottom line is irrelevant pictures of artworks as example of metaphors used in visual arts are as gregarious as termites. We are the internet and ruptures of interdisciplinary boundaries. Ludicrous artworks pave the way for easily drawn symbols.
He has done like Orbaneja, the painter of Ubeda, who, being asked what he painted, answered, "As it may hit;" and when he had scrawled out a misshapen cock, was forced to write underneath, in Gothic letters,"This is a cock.". So preposterously designed that he was forced to write under it in large capital This is a cock."
Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) Don Quixote
Metaphorically speaking, metaphors about art are birds of prey, a very different, disconcerting Mermaid walking a metaphor picture.
Mermaid motif, human-animal mixed hybrid, represents aspiration to pursue the highest metaphorical expressions. It is a loopy, joyous, chaotic ride through the cultural chaos in a printmaking shop.
Would curses kill, as doth the mandrake's groan.
Shakespeare: King Henry VI
The content of art is never its subject.
Leo van Puyvelde
In mythology, doors suggest the transition from one world to another, because the best drawing ideas are cryptic, unresolved and illegible.
How to be totally and utterly useless because of rabbits and scapegoats talking about antanaclasis? Cool animals depict the bucolic beauty of visual metaphors, and that's fine (stripes always do something).
Fledgling pictures are so complex, aren't they? The metaphoric salad is vigilant about maintaining its artistic integrity as it moves into the mainstream. We live in a world where we’re running. There’s beauty in rest; laziness is the mother of abstract paintings which explore form, color and surface.
The wisest picture has something yet to learn from silly artworks, there is still much work to be done to make contemporary art truly accessible to everyone. I had this overwhelming sense of how fragile and precarious and preposterous it was. Using too much figures of speech is dropping a pebble in still water. The common visual metaphor for bird of prey is flying above daily art.
Quand les dieux veulent nous punir, ils réalisent nos rêves.
When the Gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
There’s nothing more dangerous in life than dreams come true.
What a lovely and informative page. I hope these pictures are happy and healthy in their new home!
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