Man Ray 'Unconcerned Photograph' series - 1959

From a series of 7 photographs (gelatin silver print on paper 42.5 x 30 each), whose ‘blurred images’ Grace Mayer noted, ‘were caused by swinging a Polaroid camera at random around his Paris Studio’.

“There was no humor in it, but what we did was really ‘to upset things’, you know, but subconsciously ‘to clear the way’ as I said before, for something ‘new’ which we didn’t know yet what it might be!” - Man Ray interviewed in 1972 about Dada & Surrealist movements.

'The Pond-Moonlight' photograph by Edward Steichen, 1904

"What the printing press did for the word, the camera did for the image" – quote by Prof. dr. J.M. Peters, ’From word to image’ 1980

‘The Pond-Moonlight’ by Edward Steichen, 1904 - Photograph, platinum print with applied color

Size: 39.7 x 48.2 cm (15 5/8 x 19 in.) - Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1933

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Paul Cézanne's 'Bathers' - 1900/05

"... a feverish height rising desire for the new and the other, for a spiritualized world in contrast to the materialistic of the citizen, this call for sustainability and order, for security and freedom, for ideals and ideas, this opposition to bourgeois reality and at the same time escape from capitalist reality with its propriety of all living and its bonds, with its dehumanization of all humanitarian values, with its increasingly violent and extended problems, this opposition to an outer world and this flight to an inner world, is characteristic and stimulating at the same time." - Opposition of Abstract Art by K. Farner (1964 WB/ Cézanne 1904: father of the future painting, founder of a new platonic empire of the mind)

Paul Cézanne, ‘Bathers’ – 1900/05 - OOC 73 x 92cm – Private Collection

'Portrait de Guillaume Apollinaire' by Jean Metzinger, 1910

"to permanent undermine the virtuous power" - Guillaume Apollinaire

“Guillaume Apollinaire” by Jean Metzinger (FR, 1883–1956) ooc - 55 x 46 cm

Yayoi Kusama with 'Macaroni Girl' - 1964

 “I promised myself that one day I would conquer the world with my passion for Arts and mountains of creative energy stored in myself.” -  Yayoi Kusama (°1929)

Kusama with Macaroni Girl. Dressing Table and Infinity Net Painting, ca. 1964 © Yayoi Kusama Courtesy of Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo/Singapore, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, David Zwirner, New York