Xu Bing: 'Tiger-Skin Carpet' (2011)
Made from thousands of cigarettes, the installation is a mass manifestation of desire, temptation and danger - ideas that have been associated with tobacco and have also been prevalent in human history. The tiger skin carpet symbolizes luxury and status.
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"The doctor's office where all fantasies and follies are purified"
Matthaeus Greuter 1600s
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Pablo Picasso's "The Blue Room"
In 2008, infrared radiation revealed that another image was hidden beneath the "Blue Room" - a portrait of a man dressed in a suit with a bowtie and resting his head on his hand. "As soon as Picasso had a new idea, he would take up his brush and realize it. But he didn't have the opportunity to buy a new canvas every time his muse visited him," explains the possible reason for this, art historian Patricia Favero.
1901
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"Death smiles at each of us. We can only smile back at it"
Marcus Aurelius
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"Conception is sin, birth is pain. Life is hard work, death is a necessity"
Salvatore Rosa
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Richard Prince
He has been called one of the richest and most brazen American artists.
He changed the history of modern fine art. His moral views on creativity have no property boundaries and deny all authorship in both photography and painting.
Most of the artist's works are borrowings of other people's works, slightly reworked by the master in the style of postmodernism.
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