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“But, after all, the aim of art is to create space”*…

The remarkable work of Eric Ross Bernstein

See more at his website or on Instagram. Via @Booooooom.

* Frank Stella

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As we ponder perspective, we might send expressive birthday greetings to artist, playwright, poet, and teacher Oskar Kokoschka; he was born on this date in 1886. His theories of vision and his intense expressionistic paintings (largely portraits and landscapes) made him a key member of the Viennese Expressionist movement.

The Bride of the Wind or The Tempest, oil on canvas, a self-portrait expressing his unrequited love for Alma Mahler, widow of composer Gustav Mahler, 1914 [source]
Kokoschka in 1963, by Erling Mandelmann [source]

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