Goya and Broodthaers

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In Malaga I lived in a youth hostel. The weather wasn't nice on those days, thus I spent quite a lot of time in the hostel. One day when I was reading a magazine in the sitting room, the host, Ben, took out a large book with Goya's sketches, told me how great Goya is. Then I found that nearly all the pictures in the hostel are Goya's, then, I spent a morning to read that book.

That's how I started to love Goya.

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Like Wilde he is pessimmistic, yet revealed the reality -- those old days are hard, those old days are sad. While most of the others were just describing those happinesses to entertain those upper classes, they were two of the few who dared to reveal.

In contemporary societies it is quite a complete difference. So much, at least a fault one under the scarf of consumption, happiness in the mind of people. Pessimmistic art for expression so as to 'impress' turns out to become a kind of 'trendy'. A little bit (maybe too) overwhelmed, dark and poor and over labelled for those social groups/NGOs/individuals to raise their own fame. Now I appreciate those arts that can appreciate the human happiness -- at least a kind of black humour.

And that's why i like Marcel Broodthaers


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