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“Don’t let the opinions of the average man sway you. Dream, and he thinks you’re crazy. Succeed, and he thinks you’re lucky. Acquire wealth, and he thinks you’re greedy. Pay no attention. He simply doesn’t understand.” – Robert G. AllenOriginal Painting –
The Summer/L’Estate, Gino Severini 1951
(Thank you @wanda102 and Spencer for pointing out the painting!)Description –
The figure depicted, Summer, appears as a sorrowful woman whose outlines are lost in the geometric and almost abstract structure of the composition where, following a simultaneous and multiple vision, crossed lines, plains of color, zig-zag outlines, areas of pointiliste technique and blanks in which the background colors emerge, all controlled by a stringent formal internal logic. Severini’s stratigraphic figurative style, the divisionism of the Roman years, cubism, which is here enriched with the vitality of color, and the futuristic dynamism, which was the base of his paintings in the 1910s, re-emerge in the elegant synthesis of this female figure, in whom a certain decorative intent is also clear.
Hey. Your The System is showing.
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This reminds me of Thomas Conwell’s must-read speech, one of the most frequent ever given in American history, called “Acres of Diamonds”.
The lines I am most reminded of are: “Why, the man you are criticizing has one hundred million dollars, and you have fifty cents, and both of you have just what you are worth.” and “…you can judge your success in any line by the lies that are told about you.”
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