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I filled golden paper bags alternately with earth from my hole and ‘Yves Klein’ blue paint, and tied them to a piece of canvas. Then I hoisted the canvas up so the bags formed a figure. I hoisted myself up upside down and pulled at a rope until I was hanging at a distance away from the canvas, let go and swirled like a projectile against the canvas which made the bags tear and the earth and the paint were mixed and spattered around.
(6 June 2009)
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Surrealist painter René François Ghislain Magritte 21 November 1898 (+) is born in Lessines, Belgium. 15 August 1967 (-) dies of pancreatic cancer in Brussel, Belgium. |
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