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Antonino La Vela Art
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🍉🍉🍉Art Painter - Love Art - Thinkism My art pursuits in the exploration of sociopolitical themes through conceptually driven painting. http://www.antoninolavela.it - http://www.antoninolavela.com
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A portrait without a face. Just bronzer-orange, a red tie, and slogans like:
“I am the chosen one.”
“My IQ is one of the highest.”
When emptiness wears makeup, it becomes power. (Second only to the Pope).
#PoliticalArt #Satire #OrangeIsThePower
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Orange is the Power: A Monument to Absurdity
Orange is the Power: A Monument to Absurdity
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😈🎨 A lost Leonardo, a Florida mansion, Epstein’s emails, and a $450M Christ painting used like a financial tool.

New piece on Salvator Mundi, art, power, and reputation laundering 👇
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#SalvatorMundi #LeonardoDaVinci #ArtAndPower #ArtMarket #ArtWorld #Epstein
Salvator Mundi, Epstein, and the Art World’s Appetite for Shadows
Salvator Mundi, Epstein, and the Art World’s Appetite for Shadows - How a lost Leonardo, a predator’s emails, and a Florida mansion redraw the map of
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November 21, 2025 at 9:49 AM
My Interviw @NBourriaud Nicolas Bourriaud: The Usefulness of Art Today #altermodern #contemporaryart www.antoninolavela.it/2025/11/nico...
November 18, 2025 at 8:03 PM
So apparently being in the Epstein files is the new shortcut to a Nobel Peace Prize.

Great news: I’m NOT in any of them 🙃
Which means… no prizes for me. Just my art, my Diet Coke, my Big Mac 😌🍔🥤

#artivism #politicalart #satire #darkhumor #socialcommentary #nobelpeaceprize #epstein #ufoenergy
November 13, 2025 at 3:14 PM
What if rejection were not the end but the material itself?
I spoke with Arlene Rush about turning refusals into practice, building a life in the early Chelsea scene, and finding integrity in a system that often rewards the opposite. Read here:
#contepraryart
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Interview with New York Artist Arlene Rush
Interview with New York Artist Arlene Rush - Turning Rejection into Artistic Practice
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November 5, 2025 at 5:30 PM
✨ Rob Gonsalves turned reality into wonder.
Ships become sunsets, puzzles become landscapes, cities dissolve into forests.

This is Magical Neorealism. 🌌🧩🌅

👉 Full article: www.antoninolavela.it/2025/09/rob-...

#RobGonsalves #Art #MagicalNeorealism
Rob Gonsalves and his Magical Neorealism
Rob Gonsalves and the Architecture of Wonder
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September 11, 2025 at 1:57 PM
✨ New feature on Juliette Aristides ✨
A master of classical technique bringing timeless beauty into today’s art world.
Read my article 👉 www.antoninolavela.it/2025/08/juli...
her exclusive interview on Artribune 👉 www.artribune.com/arti-visive/...
#Art #Painting #JulietteAristides #ContemporaryArt
The Inner Life of the Artist
The Inner Life of the Artist
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September 10, 2025 at 3:05 PM
✨ “Frida didn’t paint dreams… she painted her life.” ✨

🎨 A journey through pain, passion & identity — discover why Frida Kahlo’s art still speaks louder than words.

👉 Read more:

#FridaKahlo #ArtHistory #Resilience #Mexico
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Frida Kahlo and the One Credible Miracle
Frida Kahlo and the One Credible Miracle
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September 8, 2025 at 12:46 PM
🚨 A Guerrilla Girl has spoken. 🚨
One of the original members has revealed her true identity. 🎭✊
👉 Read it here (ITA/ENG):
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#GuerrillaGirls #FeministArt
The Story of the Guerrilla Girls: Interview with Alice Neel, Original Member
The Story of the Guerrilla Girls: Interview with Alice Neel, Original Member
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September 1, 2025 at 11:58 AM
A portrait without a face. Just bronzer-orange, a red tie, and slogans like:
“I am the chosen one.”
“My IQ is one of the highest.”
When emptiness wears makeup, it becomes power. (Second only to the Pope).
#PoliticalArt #Satire #OrangeIsThePower
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Orange is the Power: A Monument to Absurdity
Orange is the Power: A Monument to Absurdity
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August 27, 2025 at 10:53 AM
🎨 From CoBrA’s wild colors to Nordic myths — Bengt Lindström’s art screams off the canvas.
Visceral energy, ancestral faces, rebellion in every stroke.
Dive into his untamed universe 🌈🏔
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#BengtLindstrom #CoBrA #Art
Bengt Lindström: The Untamed Vision of a Swedish Master
Bengt Lindström: The Untamed Vision of a Swedish Master
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August 9, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Sometimes words fail,but a single stroke can speak the world.

Artist Christian Dotremont didn’t just write poetry he painted it. ‘Logogrammes’ fused language and image,from CoBrA’s fire and Lapland’s silence

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#ChristianDotremont #Logogrammes #COBRA
Christian Dotremont: The Man Who Wrote the Wind
The Poet Who Painted with Words (and Fought with Fire)
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August 8, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Pierre Alechinsky didn’t just paint — he let the margins speak.
From COBRA to calligraphy, his ink drawings became visual poetry, restless and raw.
New deep-dive article now live:
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#COBRA #Alechinsky #ArtHistory #VisualArt
Pierre Alechinsky: Margins in Flames, Ink in Revolt
Pierre Alechinsky: Margins in Flames, Ink in Revolt
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August 2, 2025 at 4:17 PM
hWhy did the art world forget Guillaume Corneille?
He co-founded COBRA, painted like a child, dreamed like a poet, and turned rebellion into joy.
It’s time to remember him.

🎨 Read the full article:
#GuillaumeCorneille #COBRA #ArtHistory #LostMasters #ArtBlog
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“Guillaume Corneille: The Painter Who Dreamed in Symbols
“Guillaume Corneille: The Painter Who Dreamed in Symbols
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August 1, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Karel Appel wasn’t just a painter. He was a storm of color, fear, and freedom.

From COBRA chaos to censored murals and primal soundtracks—his work hits harder than ever.

Read the full article here:
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#KarelAppel #COBRA #ArtHistory
Karel Appel and the Violence of Innocence
Karel Appel and the Violence of Innocence
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July 31, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Jerry Saltz replied to my email.
He called my article “obvious, half-told, romanized AI-generated BS.”
So I wrote him a public letter.
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Jerry Saltz Wrote Back to Me. Here’s My Public Letter to Him
Jerry Saltz Wrote Back to Me. Here’s My Public Letter to Him
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July 21, 2025 at 1:16 PM
🎨 Why Art Is Losing Its Cultural Power

Mega-galleries = gatekeepers
Shock > Substance
Virality > Vision

Art isn't dead. It's trapped in a system that erases honesty.

🖤 Read more 👉
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#ArtAsResistance #MakeArtMatter #Thinkism
July 14, 2025 at 5:05 PM
🖤 THIS ISN’T JUST ART. IT’S A WARNING.
Aviva Rahmani draws what we inherit:
polluted landscapes, silenced histories, ecological wounds.
This is not decoration: it’s a scream.
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🧠 Can we still inherit a livable world?
💥 Let’s not just look. Let’s respond.
Aviva Rahmani Draws What We Inherit
Aviva Rahmani Draws What We Inherit
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July 3, 2025 at 4:03 PM
No gallery wanted to exhibit it. Too honest. Too raw. Too “sensitive.” So I’m showing it here. Because 50,000 children deserve more than silence.
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#50KFromHeaven
#GazaArt
#ChildrenAreNotCollateral
#UnapprovedGrief
#FreePalestine
50.000 Hughs from Heaven
50.000 Hughs from Heaven
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June 30, 2025 at 3:31 PM
🧨 BREAKING: My most important work is a list of failures.

👇 Read the full confession, raw and uncensored:
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#rejection #artworldtruths #artistrejection #keepcreating #artthatheals
#contemporaryart #antoninolavela #arlenerush
The Curriculum of Rejections
The Curriculum of Rejections
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June 24, 2025 at 7:01 PM
📸 The Day a Selfie Shattered a Prince 👑
He survived 330 years.Empires fell. Floods came.
But one selfie brought him down. At the Uffizi Gallery,a tourist stumbled while taking a photo of portrait of Ferdinando de’ Medici. #MuseumCulture #Uffizi
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The Day a Selfie Shattered a Prince
The Day a Selfie Shattered a Prince
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June 23, 2025 at 9:56 AM
🎭 Am I in a Truman Show?
A painting. A question. A breakdown of illusions.
When reality becomes performance, and performance becomes survival, what’s left of truth?

🔍 My latest piece👉 www.antoninolavela.it/2025/06/am-i...

#ContemporaryArt #TrumanShow #ConceptualArt #AntoninoLaVela #ArtAsResistance
Am I in a Truman Show?
Am I in a Truman Show?
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June 19, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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June 15, 2025 at 8:22 AM
🎨💥 When art meets human carelessness.
Two tourists just turned Verona’s Van Gogh Chair into an unintended performance piece.
The chair is now restored but the message is louder than ever:
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#ArtFail #VanGoghChair #ContemporaryArt #NicolaBolla #PalazzoMaffei
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June 13, 2025 at 7:11 AM