Time and Creation

To quote George Bernard Shaw, “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself”.

The Whys Not

Amo i colori, tempi di un anelito inquieto, irrisolvibile, vitale, spiegazione umilissima e sovrana dei cosmici perché del mio respiro. I love the colours, times of a restless, irresoluble, alive longing, the humblest and supreme explanation of the cosmic whys of my breath. Alda Merini

(English translation by Mado Flynn)

Paek YoungSu, Untitled, 1975. Courtesy of Vibes and Vistas.

After Magritte

尹欣 (Yǐn Xīn), After Magritte: “Chinese wedding”, 2018. Copyright and courtesy of 尹欣 (Yǐn Xīn).

A Life in a Day

尹欣 (Yǐn Xīn), During Rehearsal, 2009. Courtesy of Tanya Baxter Contemporary.

Mona Lisa after da Vinci

尹欣 (Yǐn Xīn), Mona Lisa after da Vinci, 2003. Courtesy of la Repubblica.it.

Venus after Botticelli

尹欣 (Yǐn Xīn), Venus after Botticelli, 2008. Photo: Guillaume Duhamel/Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A).

The Shoe Tree

Converse, the American shoe company, sponsored a giant mural featuring the words “Create Together For Tomorrow” which decorates a building in front of the Politechnika metro station in Warsaw, Poland. The mural, designed by landscape architect Dawid Ryski in collaboration with muralist Maciek Polak, was painted with special photocatalytic, smog-eating varnishes which claim to have the same environmental effect as planting 780 trees. Photo: Good Looking Studio.

Into the Sky with Diamonds

Two of the ground floor boarded up windows of a building at Tumska Street in Włocławek, Poland, have been frescoed with imaginary windows. The artist/author is unknown. Photo: Mariochom/CC BY-SA 4.0.

《愛撤防》 (Love Disarm’d)

René Magritte, L’Amour Désarmé (Love Disarmed), 1935. Private collection. Courtesy of The New Criterion, November 2013 issue.

Only a Pawn in Their Game

A woman passes a mural in Manhattan, New York City, United States. Photo: Johannes Eisele/AFP.

The Art of the First Date

Pigcasso, a rescued pig, paints on a canvas at the Farm Sanctuary in Franschhoek, outside Cape Town, South Africa. Photo: Reuters.

The Painted Sea

An aerial view showing French artist Saype’s giant land art painting Message From Future in Parc de la Perle du Lac, Geneva, Switzerland which he painted to support the cause of the NGO SOS Méditerranée, which specialises in the rescue of migrants at sea. Photo: AFP/Fabrice Coffrini.

La partie aux pièces déplacées

Lee Zimmerman (@zim2918)

Not Just Another Cowboy

Lee Zimmerman (@zim2918)

Aladdin’s Lamp

AS A MUSE → Opening Ceremony with René Magritte. René Magritte, Shéhérazade, 1948, oil on canvas. Opening Ceremony, Limited Collection, Spring-Summer 2014. Credit: AS A MUSE.

Finding Dory

Antonio Ligabue, Seafloor, 1951-1952, oil on canvas. Credit: La Stampa.

The Leopard

Antonio Ligabue, Leopard, engraving. Credit: Antonio Ligabue Documentary Museum and Donation Umberto Tirelli, Gualtieri, Italy.

A Bowl of Flowers

Antonio Ligabue, A Bowl of Flowers, 1960-1961, oil on canvas, 70x50cm. Credit: Scenario Magazine.

Spite

Alessandro Tofanelli, Dispetto (Spite), 2012
Credit: lavocedelserchio.it

Take Shelter

A painting about being photographed, 2000 “I’ve been photographed quite a number of times. In this painting, I’ve stuck the palette that I was working from instead of my head”, Australian painter Ken Done said. Photo: Ken Done/The Done Group.