Spartan Art

The history of Art is a prelude to its subject.

The sweetest words I ever spoke
were promises I couldn't keep
I can't help it I'm a poet
they felt so good to speak

(David Helmer)

Coming back from the medical laboratory with the test results in an envelope, he posted them unthinkingly in the first letter box he came to.

(Jean Baudrillard)

Genuine things are those to which commodities and other means of exchange can be reduced, particularly gold. But like gold, genuineness, abstracted as the proportion of fine metal, becomes a fetish.

(Theodor Adorno)

I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.

(Andrew Wyeth)