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Eternal Testaments of Brilliance: 1000 Monuments of Genius
Since the mythical Tower of Babel, humans have continuously tried to erect monuments to match their oversized egos. With ancient ziggurats, the Taj Mahal or the Empire State Building, man has for centuries demonstrated his force by raising structures for purposes both religious and profane.
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Auguste Rodin – The genius founder of modern sculpture
Many of Rodin's sculptures were criticised and considered controversial because of their sensuality or hyperrealist qualities. His most original works departed from traditional themes of mythology and allegory, and embraced the human body, celebrating individualism and physicality.
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Niki de Saint Phalle – Why Bill has to be killed
Niki de Saint Phalle (1930-2002) is most widely known for her Nanas. Those large, boisterously bright sculptures of voluptuous women, a colourful feminist manifesto, can be found all around the world. However, it was the Shooting Paintings that paved her way to fame in the early 1960s. And they continue to have an effect on contemporary art. You want an example? Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill is one. Niki de Saint Phalle’s father raped her when she was eleven. At the age of twenty-three, she had a nervous breakdown. She had been painting before, but it was only now that art revealed itself, as for so many others, to be an…
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