Creative License
Brains, blinds, clip art bats… There’s no telling where contemporary artists find their inspiration.
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Counterclockwise, from below: Clip art + a cave painting + the Mad Hatter’s tea party = Petra Cortright’s Andro-6 Greeting Cards, 2015.
Courtesy of Getty Images, Corbis, Everett Collection and Foxy Production, New York.
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Clockwise, from top, left: A kindergarten project + Constructivism + the Ethiopian flag = Etel Adnan’s Untitled, 2013.
Courtesy of the artist, Getty Images, Encyclopaedia Britannica, and Sfeir-Semler gallery, Beirut.
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Clockwise, from left: A ball of dough + a convenience store + nail polish = Pamela Rosenkranz’s Firm Being (Stay True), 2009.
Courtesy of AP Images, Getty Images, and Gunnar Meier.
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Clockwise, from right: Laundry on a line + dominoes + window blinds = Haegue Yang’s Mountains of Encounter, 2008.
Courtesy of Getty Images and Galerie Wien Lukatsch, Berlin, and Greene Naftali.
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Clockwise, from top, left: A brain + dry ramen + a radiator = Sascha Braunig’s Chur, 2014.
Courtesy of Getty Images and Foxy Production, New York.
