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Ethel Greene, “The World’s Greatest Parking Lot,” oil on canvas, 1969

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Ethel Greene, “The World’s Greatest Parking Lot,” oil on canvas, 1969

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Traditional Art@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

I think how much hatred and revulsion I feel looking at this is the brilliance here.

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Those “framed letter” pieces just make artists look like pretentious pricks.

The worst example I’ve seen is an oak tree. What is hilarious is apparently I only saw an artist’s “copy”, not the original.

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