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"We spend our days, each one of us, in looking for the secret of life. Well, the secret of life is in art."
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Alena Akhmadullina
"Oath of the Horatii"
by Jacques-Louis David
"In the arts the way in which an idea is rendered, and the manner in which it is expressed, is much more important than the idea itself."
Shield of Henry II of France ca. 1555
Steel, gold, silver
Alphonse Mucha
This stunning stained glass window casts brilliant light into the north nave of St Vitus' Cathedral in Prague. It creates incredible bursting light, color, and activity - with the central flaming gold and red colors fading into the cool blues and greens on the outer scenes.
"Mass"
Ron Mueck
"The installation brings to mind the massed remains in the catacombs of Paris, an imposing wall of human heads that resonates with a simultaneous and strange sense of impermanence and eternality. In ‘Mass’, Mueck celebrates the form that links all humanity and pays homage to a symbol that has stood within the art of essentially all cultures and religion. surrounded by skulls covering nearly every surface of the walls, visitors are reminded of the transience of life"