Art History
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Roy Lichtenstein, 1961, Look, Mickey!
I'm never drawing the object itself; I'm only drawing a depiction of the object - a kind of crystallized symbol of it.
I'd always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn't.
—Roy Lichtenstein
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look_Mickey
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Giacomo_Balla, 1912, Dinamismo di un cane al guinzaglio
A personal favorite, Giacomo Balla's analysis on the relatively new art form of cinema in the context of painting (see chronophotography and fellow Futurist Anton Giulio Bragaglia).
Despite Futurism's connection to fascism, great art is great art.
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Seeing comes before words
From absolutely prehistoric 1972, the BBC's influential and still-relevant Ways of Seeing, by the late John Berger and Mike Dibb.
Never seen it? See it! Seen it already? See it again!
Image: The Interpretation of Dreams (La clef des songes), René Magritte,1935.
