describe a pirate flag with a swan

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like face—pale, almond-shaped, and fluttering in a sense of horizontal tension. In fact, theyre kind of gutsy, the way the wall is sleek, and the paints (and even the lighting) are a little dandyish. But what I find most compelling about the paintings is how much energy they cast out of themselves. The swans-eye view of the ship, for instance, seems like a picture taken from a bird. At the same time, its a shot taken from an oblique angle, and the ship seems to be moving. It is as if we were being told that the horizon line was going to be our vantage point, and that the background was not going to be there. In the paintings, the sea is like an extra-high wall that stops us in our tracks. The space we occupy seems completely alien, almost like a collage of architectural elements. The objects, made of paint and canvas, are presented as if they were pieces of a terrain that is almost unreal. They seem to float in a space of doubt and uncertainty.The paintings are not really about art. They are about a dream. But the dream is a dream of a game, not one of art. And in that game, theres no real point to be making. Art has to do with the dream, but not in the way that dreams have. Theres no reason to think that dreams have a definite point, and no reason to think that art is even necessarily a means of achieving that dream.

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describe a pirate flag with a swan-neck motif—a tacky wink at Richard Nixon. Tisch attempts to decipher the meaning of these inscrutable and ambiguous signs, which seem to offer her a lens through which to view the whole of humanity—an art of signifying rather than signifying. In The Law of the Margin (all works 2012), a white paper bag is displayed atop a blackboard. The word DERK appears written on the bag, which is covered with a halo of drape cloth. The bag is surrounded by a photograph of a pale-skinned woman. Her head is obscured by a piece of paper, which is taped to the bag. A yellow and red circle dot the surface of the paper, suggesting an arrow or a gun. A single, bright yellow, emblazoned letter seems to have been scrawled on the bag. This image, however, is distorted: The word is drawn upside down, as if to suggest that the words in the bag were in fact written on the bag. In The Law of the Margin, the word is scrawled in pencil on the bottom of the page. This reading suggests that the word is being erased rather than written, and that it might be the only thing left for the word to be. The marks are, in fact, indeterminate and provisional. The paper is only partially visible beneath the pen-on-paper sheet. A suggestion of meaning remains in the uncertainly remaining sketch of a black-and-white photograph. The framed, transparent image, which seems to be a photo of the artist, depicts a beige oval-shaped cardboard box with a small square hole cut out. A metal chain attached to the side of the box echoes the chains in the boxes ceiling.The grayish-blue-green construction is suggestive of a desk, which, while it is presumably empty, suggests a hostile, paranoid state.

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as an electronic heart, while she refers to a series of paintings that juxtapose sexualized cowgirls and computer-generated heartbeats with photographs of a collection of old paintings of cowboys from the 1970s, including a replica of The Angels Fountain, a love poem to Disney, and a Self-Portrait in a Handkerchief, a self-portrait in a tattered hat. These titles are most easily read as inscriptions for the work itself, but they also suggest that the works have historical roots, given that these paintings are based on found photographs. As a whole, however, the shows ambitions were less clear. The artists are clearly motivated to explore the possibilities of painting, and their desire to do so is understandable. But what of the work, which is part of a tradition that is so often recognized as dated and quaint? In the end, though, the exhibition became a passionate celebration of the art of painting.Camille Périau is a writer and curator living in London.

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like design on it and a simple, bright, and cartoonish English flag, both dyed the same color as the flag, above which hung a picture of a button-faced pirate. The whole construction was mounted on the wall with a small piece of foam rubber, resembling a surfboard, and was made of light-blue foam rubber, which seemed to float and drop, as if the piece were suspended in midair.The other piece, which consists of a structure of two wooden planes that extend from the wall to a line on the floor, could be read as an allusion to Cézannes famous first-person narrative paintings, which were painted on the wall in a similar style. The structure of the work is similar to the one in the paintings—an abstract geometry that is not based on real space but on a pictorial or sculptural device that is a sign of the intimacy of the image.The exhibition was marked by a sense of humor, of which it was the most refined and dry. At the same time, however, it was a highly incisive critique of painting, one that looked not at the art object as a thing in itself but at the object as a sign of that thing. The title of this piece, The Piece of My Heart, was taken from a line from Kahlos Don Quixote: It is a sign of love, and it is a sign of heart, and heart is in love with itself.The work in this show was characterized by a technical virtuosity that was at once daring and subtle, and was at once clear and provocative. In its own way, it was also the most effective artistic statement. In its very random way, it was the most mysterious of paintings.

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describe a pirate flag with a swan on it that has become a symbol of freedom and independence. Some of the paintings suggest that the modern world has been a ship of fools, but the ships sails have become sails. If the world is a pirate flag, it is the sails of the Western world; if the world is the pirate flag, it is the sails of a Western world. At times, the paintings suggest that the modern world is a pirate flag.Some of the paintings suggest that the world is a pirate flag. Some of the paintings suggest that the modern world is a pirate flag. Some of the paintings suggest that the modern world is a pirate flag. Some of the paintings suggest that the modern world is a pirate flag. Some of the paintings suggest that the modern world is a pirate flag. Some of the paintings suggest that the modern world is a pirate flag. Some of the paintings suggest that the modern world is a pirate flag. Some of the paintings suggest that the modern world is a pirate flag. Some of the paintings suggest that the modern world is a pirate flag. Some of the paintings suggest that the modern world is a pirate flag. Some of the paintings suggest that the modern world is a pirate flag. Some of the paintings suggest that the modern world is a pirate flag. Some of the paintings suggest that the modern world is a pirate flag. Some of the paintings suggest that the modern world is a pirate flag. Some of the paintings suggest that the modern world is a pirate flag. Some of the paintings suggest that the modern world is a pirate flag. Some of the paintings suggest that the modern world is a pirate flag. Some of the paintings suggest that the modern world is a pirate flag. Some of the paintings suggest that the modern world is a pirate flag. Some of the paintings suggest that the modern world is a pirate flag. Some of the paintings suggest that the modern world is a pirate flag. Some of the paintings suggest that the modern world is a pirate flag.