this painting finally opens up and knocks my socks off...!

and (surprise, surprise) it has everything to do with Andy Warhol and Hypnosis...

here's a picture of this big bad boy hanging in the Museum Ludwig:

 

interesting interviews with the artist, Yan Pei-Ming:

more images of Yan Pei-Ming's paintings:

Some Good, Larger images of work  by Yan Pei-Ming 

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Significant links:

Francis Bacon Popes

Velazquez: Pope Innocent X 

Titian: Pope Paul III

Jacques-Louis David: Coronation of Napoleon:

Yan Pei-Ming’s portraits of Napoleon

Andy Warhol and Mao - quite the cool photograph...!

Warhol’s candy colored Mao portraits:

Warhol’s Death & Disaster Series

A great example of VanGogh’s brushwork

Silkscreen painting according to wikipedia

 

Bill Alexander: Magic of Oil Painting - I totally love this guy...!!!

Bob Ross: Joy of Oil Painting - I don't know how I could have missed this back in the day...

autonomous sensory meridian response - if you've never had the experience... you don't know what you're missing...!

 

John Carpenter's "They Live"

Freud's Free association method

More Warhol:

Joseph Campbell explaining Joyce’s theory on pornographic art from his “Portrait of the Artist”

 

China's Cultural Revolution according to wikipedia 

sensational images from the Cultural Revolution (@nytimes)

the photographer who took those amazing photos

Mao as Mass Murderer (@WaPo)

More dirt on Mao from wikipedia

Yan'an Forum on Literature and Art from wikipedia

Mao's remarks concerning art and its role in politics

 

Propaganda in Rome oh, the irony and comedy to be found in facts and factoids...!

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COOL VIDEO LINKS:

popes, picasso, & power:

insight into Yan Pei-Ming & his Psyche:

the funeral of mona lisa:

rupert murdoch & Yan Pei-Ming:

good interview with Zheng Shengtian:

pay no attention to that man behind the curtain:

John Carpenter's "They Live":

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