Showing posts with label museum postcards. Show all posts
Showing posts with label museum postcards. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Banksy postcards: artworks from streets to homes

It is Banksy’s image of a girl frisking an Israeli soldier, which is originally painted on a wall in Israel. But its spirit can definitely be felt in any other zones in the world that are (or were) under military occupation. For example, it reminded me of 1940s' Berlin.

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Anne Frank House: A Museum with a Story

"One day this terrible war will be over. The time will come when we will be people again and not just Jews!" - Anne Frank, April 11, 1944

Thursday, February 7, 2013

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

What is Art?

Tips for Artists who want to sell



John Baldessari, American, b. 1931
Acrylic on canvas, in 1966 - 1968

"I guess a lot of it's just lashing out, because I didn't know how to be an artist, and all this time spent alone in the dark in these studios and importing my culture and constant questions. I'd say, 'Well, why is this art? Why isn't that art?'" - John Baldessari

Postcard from - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York


Sunday, December 9, 2012

Photojournalism: Praying

“Photojournalists and photographers are always confused. We are not photographers, but photojournalists. We record our period and leave it to the next generation. This is not ‘being a photographer’ but ‘being a photojournalist.’ I am not a photography artist. Being an artist is different. I am fed up with this word ‘art.’” - Ara Güler



Allah - Old Mosque, Edirne, Turkey by Ara Güler

“I could not reach a number of men that I wanted to photograph. I wanted to take photos of Einstein, but I was not ‘Ara Güler’ when he died in 1955, I was just an ordinary photographer. I could not take photos of Jean Paul Sartre either, because of my incompetence. Also, there’s Charlie Chaplin. These are important people.” - Ara Güler