Pierre Alechinsky (1927)
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1969 | Acrylic on paper mounted on canvas | 218 x 201 cm
This title of this work proclaims that it’s against photography. So what’s wrong with taking pictures?
What Pierre Alechinsky meant (back then) is that photography didn’t deserve to be called art. He said photographs were too realistic. A painting, on the other hand, could be as imaginative as you wanted it to be. Like in this abstract work, where he even included a row of visual footnotes to help us interpret it.
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