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From Awen Null [Blogger Feed] Art For Art’s Sake: Money For Fuck’s Sake https://www.awennull.com/2026/05/art-for-arts-sake-money-for-fucks-sake.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #ArtForArtsSake #CreativePractice #Transmedia #ArtCommunity #IndependentArtist
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Exile for Elon
Napoleon Bonaparte
Any island will do
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"Caesar at the Rubicon," Wilhelm Trübner, 1878.
Trübner (1851-1917) was a German Realist painter. Although never a major name (many of his paintings were too somber to really be popular) he did achieve a few humorous paintings with his dog, Caesar, that have endured.
He also did a lot to advance the idea of "art for art's sake," that is that a work of art should not just depict something beautiful, but be beautiful in and of itself, and that art should be free of utilitarian and didactic concerns. This was a reaction to a generation of artists who felt their art had to have a message and make a stand.
Eh...there's more than enough room for both, I say.
From the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna.
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