Orange is the Power: A Monument to Absurdity
A satirical portrait in bronzer-orange, where ego, costume, and empty slogans replace identity. Then I made it… ahahah. I love
Read MoreContemporary Art Criticism, Interviews, Essays and Visual Politics
Thinkism turns art into thinking. I use painting like critical writing. I use writing like a visual act. This category gathers my Thinkism texts and artworks. You’ll find contemporary art that argues, questions, and resists easy labels. Each image makes a claim. Each sentence carries form, pressure, and urgency. Thinkism rejects “style” as a cage. It works as method, ethics, and practice.
Here you’ll see projects, series, and prototypes from my studio. You’ll also read short essays, notes, and manifestos. I track how artists build meaning in public. I also track who controls that meaning. Institutions, markets, and media often turn complexity into branding. I push back with analysis and form. I focus on friction: visibility versus exclusion. I focus on taste versus power. I focus on emotion versus ideology.
Thinkism asks one central question. What changes when art interrogates reality instead of decorating it? If you want a category where critique meets composition, start here. Browse the newest posts first, then follow the series links.
A satirical portrait in bronzer-orange, where ego, costume, and empty slogans replace identity. Then I made it… ahahah. I love
Read MoreFrom CoBrA’s Wild Energy to Nordic Myths Picture a canvas that doesn’t just sit quietly on the wall but roars
Read MoreHow the Belgian poet-painter and founder of COBRA turned language into an act of resistance, and art into a fever
Read MoreThe Quiet Explosion of COBRA’s Graphic Soul Some artists paint to be seen. Pierre Alechinsky painted to be read. Not
Read MoreHow a Dutch painter rewrote the rules of postwar art through primal expression and political instinct “If I paint like
Read MoreEditorial Note: This letter is based on a real email exchange with critic Jerry Saltz. It’s not meant as an
Read MoreWhy Art Is Losing Its Cultural Power For those who still believe that art, before being business, must remain first
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Blued Tress Opera in rehearsal forperformance at the Soapbox Galler 2024 y Gallery (Credit www.avivarahmani.com) Her drawings reject nostalgia. They function as records – of exile, ecology, memory, and what remains after the flood. “In
Read MoreWhen a Painting Becomes Too Honest to Exhibit, and Grief Itself Is Mistaken for Bias I didn’t paint 50.000 Hughs
Read MoreUntitled 2025: A Silent Anatomy of Collapse First work in the series “Am I in a Truman Show?” In a
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