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Cars are perceived as dangerous animals Place making is memory making 20 m/s on cars in cities and remove all signs, markings, stop lights and narrow the lanes If we thought a mammoth was a mouse, we would be dead The inconsistency of Gustave Courbet’s thoughts are through the roof Who are the modern-day bohemians? The bohemian and the bourgeois Marxists and modernists share their disdain for the proletariat and their love of kitsch Why modern art was unwelcome in the Soviet Union Why has Proudhon’s authoritarian book about the realist school not been translated? Was Adolf Hitler a good painter? Nelson Rockefeller, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Museum of Modern Art | Michael J. Pearce Edvard Munch’s Scream and the Krakatoa volcano eruption of 1883 The subtleness of Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov | Sturla EllingvĂ„g Our civilization is on track to collapse - are you prepared? | Sturla EllingvĂ„g SĂžren Kierkegaards take on the story about Abraham and Isaac | Seth Fite Were the old masters all politically correct? 🧐 | Seth Fite Convincing people of the existence of God through powerful imagery | Seth Fite When you forgive somebody, you are on a deeper level of friendship | Seth Fite Carl Korsnes on the melancholic beauty of the Japanese Cherry Blossoms “Make the eyes more sad” | Seth Fite on receiving feedback from Odd Nerdrum - Andrew Wyeth could have used photos. He never did. | Seth Fite Carl Korsnes on Molly Judd’s noble depiction of Raskolnikov Don’t waste your life on silly fashions | Seth Fite The best painters focus on human suffering | Seth Fite Get to know the person by painting from life | Seth Fite The recurring fall of civilizations reveals that time is circular | Sturla EllingvĂ„g Reindeer and psychedelic trips | Sturla EllingvĂ„g You have to take the Eight Great Plays course by Leonard Peikoff! | Henrik Knightingale Immanuel Kant described abstract art in the 18th century Did Immanuel Kant describe the readymades back in 1790? In China they have two words for “Copy” Nils Freckeus on his experience in architecture school The Paradox of Modernism | Nils Freckeus Our time is what you make of it | Nils Freckeus on architecture Jotunheimen was falsely moved to Southern Norway 🇳🇮 | Sturla EllingvĂ„g Kaja Norum on the big mistake she made when she painted her first multi-figure composition Kaja Norum on Photo Realism «CONSOLATION» by Kaja Norum | Inspired by a Miklos Ligeti sculpture Kaja Norum in the first time she saw Odd Nerdrum Kaja Norum on her Charcoal Drawing “Outcasts” The greatest paintings look like they are made by one man | Odd Nerdrum Odd Nerdrum’s advice to painters: Do not waste time on technique Mies van der Rohe urgedd people to vote for Hitler | James Stevens Curl Abstract art is only understandable in an artificial context | Henrik Knightingale - Before reading Ayn Rand, I was a modernist at writing | Henrik Knightingale Long live King Charles for his work on Poundbury! In modernist architecture decoration is bolted on as an afterthought | James Stevens Curl