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@pictorangelicvs

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國破山河在 - ♛ (ง’̀-‘́)ง ☧ - 誠🫀- by being seldom seen I could not stir, but like a comet I was wondered at; ~painter 🪄

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Julien Nguyễn {Φειδίας}
4 years
👑 It’s finally out. @LapsusLima lets loose her pen upon my paintings for @MousseMagazine . What results has been one of the great privileges of my artistic life. I am filled with gratitude—both for this and for the honor of calling her a friend. 💗
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Julien Nguyễn {Φειδίας}
6 months
ultimately however this is the painting which stays with me forever
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Julien Nguyễn {Φειδίας}
2 years
if they actually manage to damage the vermeer then I am all for bringing back public quarterings.
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2 years
NOW - Attack on Johannes Vermeer's famed "Girl with a Pearl Earring" painting at a museum in The Hague.
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Julien Nguyễn {Φειδίας}
3 years
first professional image of my self-portrait. show opens on June 4th in NYC.
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Julien Nguyễn {Φειδίας}
3 months
the design of the late 80s and early 90s reached such dizzying heights most can barely even recognize much less fathom — simple and yet with every layer of complexity and completely naturalistic and dignified in its purpose
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Julien Nguyễn {Φειδίας}
3 years
this is my favorite John the Baptist. the strangest—and in one modest work the profoundly extraterrestrial quality of the early renaissance is revealed. by desiderio da settignano
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Julien Nguyễn {Φειδίας}
5 months
if only shirts looked as good as I drew em
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Julien Nguyễn {Φειδίας}
3 years
last night while on a mixture of ketamine, ecstasy, and psilocybin white chocolate bar, driven around in a car with an exceedingly beautiful boy I had a vision of myself as the emperor of all mankind. highly troubling.
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Julien Nguyễn {Φειδίας}
3 years
degas, italian landscape seen through an arch
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3 years
screens within screens
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Julien Nguyễn {Φειδίας}
2 years
all of this insane discourse sucking the life and energy from people who might be better served making something and talking about it less. an over abundance of words, unless literature, seems mostly compensation:
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Julien Nguyễn {Φειδίας}
11 months
after many years, a new place to work
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Julien Nguyễn {Φειδίας}
1 year
A painting of mine, one rather dear to me in the past and which I had not thought to see in this fashion, has appeared in London. Whatever the circumstance, I am pleased and surprised to see how they hang it and with what.
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Julien Nguyễn {Φειδίας}
3 years
what the hell, 14th century bc
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Julien Nguyễn {Φειδίας}
11 months
sartorially they were and are unmatched
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Julien Nguyễn {Φειδίας}
6 months
It was, alas, actually an American painter, Abbott Henderson Thayer.
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"Picasso remark[ed] to Gertrude Stein, upon seeing the first camouflaged trucks parading in Paris, 1915, that the Cubists had invented [modern] camouflage...further inquiry revealed the man who invented camouflage was inspired by the Cubists and explicitly acknowledged that debt"
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2 months
when the present was still pregnant with future; when speculation still had aspiration not having completely devolved into sports betting in the corner of your sunglasses
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The Owen House, Block Island, Rhode Island. Designed in 1975 by architect Christopher H.L. Owen.
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1 year
What a joy it has been to work on this.
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For the LOEWE Fall Winter 2023 men's runway show artist Julien Nguyen has created two new digital images that depict his muse. © Julien Nguyen, Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery #LOEWE
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Julien Nguyễn {Φειδίας}
3 years
Richard Shapiro is perhaps my favorite interior designer working today. An appreciation for quality and the past that does not descend into kitsch
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Julien Nguyễn {Φειδίας}
5 months
this is a study for a larger work and so I’ll have my fun with it
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Julien Nguyễn {Φειδίας}
7 months
the trick with pastel is a billion layers of fixative (a mixture of casein, wax, and alcohol, not poisonous essence of plasteel) and going past the point where you think there is too much powder on a surface, blending with a brush or delicate stump, and very light touches upon
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Julien Nguyễn {Φειδίας}
8 months
getting good at this medium
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Julien Nguyễn {Φειδίας}
5 months
I suppose the division between disegno and colore really only makes sense up until bellini and titian; the mannerists show us that color can carve just as well as line—while Caravaggio and Velazquez illustrate that it is through the penetrating diffusion of light and not the
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Julien Nguyễn {Φειδίας}
4 months
bad art goes away if you stop looking at it
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Julien Nguyễn {Φειδίας}
3 years
very few people have any humility any longer in the sight of god or beauty or terror; it is all them-selves, and depraved action driven from baseless insecurity.
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Julien Nguyễn {Φειδίας}
2 years
A link to the drawings for artforum. ✨
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Julien Nguyễn {Φειδίας}
3 years
oh man these trees—mondrian’s a genius, solving the formal problem of: painting so many irregular and differing branches
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Julien Nguyễn {Φειδίας}
1 year
finally after 32 years of existence and 15-20 years of toiling at it does what emerge from my hand begin to accord with what I imagine in my mind. this is not a triumph, but a very very quiet and terrified momentary sigh of relief — embarrassment momentarily arrested
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Julien Nguyễn {Φειδίας}
11 months
Here I sit in a frame once owned by Lauren Bacall
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Julien Nguyễn {Φειδίας}
2 years
ive finished my first pastel
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Julien Nguyễn {Φειδίας}
3 years
In the @nytimes today 😈
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Julien Nguyễn {Φειδίας}
3 years
this might be my favorite Dalí — he is a legend and a master to be sure, but something about the way he paints I often can find a little stomach-churning. Here though, it’s not.
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Julien Nguyễn {Φειδίας}
3 years
nice photograph of me in a diner, only yesterday. excellent coffee and food. there is matcha in that mug but I mostly had my friends flat-white and regretted my original beverage order.
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Julien Nguyễn {Φειδίας}
2 years
on view tonight with some other things
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Julien Nguyễn {Φειδίας}
2 years
Giving a lecture at Harvard via zoom next week, for a general education course introducing various undergraduates to art that is made today. I have been asked to prepare some reading for them in advance.
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Julien Nguyễn {Φειδίας}
11 months
pics from my show earlier this month. still on in LA
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Julien Nguyễn {Φειδίας}
2 years
I get it, things are frightening to do. But you’re also going to die, so you may as well spend the time you have if you are in a position to pursue the leisures of thought and art on what brightens you. A way to deflect self obsession or vanity into generosity and service.
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Julien Nguyễn {Φειδίας}
3 years
morning affirmations
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7 months
true faggotry has never been tried
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Julien Nguyễn {Φειδίας}
3 years
studio feelin 𝓫𝓪𝓼𝓮𝓭 today
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3 years
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Julien Nguyễn {Φειδίας}
1 year
my aunt and I at last weeks festivities, she is among the greatest and most revered
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Julien Nguyễn {Φειδίας}
2 years
the favored styles and overproductions of representational painting and sculpture have in them that same quality of empty, neutered spectacle we see in what today passes for pretty much all of cinema
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Julien Nguyễn {Φειδίας}
2 years
a very important part of being an artist is making work in complete absence of an audience. an audience is great, but if that to you in your mind governs your legitimacy, ngmi. your work exists for itself, and you exist for it. or you and your work exist for one another. 🩰
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Julien Nguyễn {Φειδίας}
2 years
banger pic of me at breakfast. the omelette was more like a fondue and not at all what I was expecting
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Julien Nguyễn {Φειδίας}
6 months
4am in the studio has been my favorite hour for as long as I can remember
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Julien Nguyễn {Φειδίας}
1 year
a most disgusting aspect of the human creature: when some, even it’s recipient, mistake kindness for a sign of stupidity or weakness.
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Julien Nguyễn {Φειδίας}
3 years
fourloko
@NouveauDeco
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3 years
Art Nouveau glass vase with silver overlay from c. 1900 by Loetz, Bohemia (Czech Republic).
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2 months
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3 months
twinned approaches to the deformations and yearnings of the spirit
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Julien Nguyễn {Φειδίας}
3 years
sunday style section and in print
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Julien Nguyễn {Φειδίας}
3 years
everyone on here arguing about idiot shit should instead try to improve themselves and contribute something meaningful. your screaming into the dark isn’t strength, it’s the petty and terrified bawling of a child.
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Julien Nguyễn {Φειδίας}
11 months
starting to paint fabric in a way I like
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Julien Nguyễn {Φειδίας}
3 years
show got a review in the 𝒩ℯ𝓌 𝒴ℴ𝓇𝓀ℯ𝓇 🧐
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Julien Nguyễn {Φειδίας}
3 years
finished work for the evening
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Julien Nguyễn {Φειδίας}
2 years
squiggly lines are from me zooming in and out with my fingers
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Julien Nguyễn {Φειδίας}
4 months
runyon canyon skyline deleted {absent, rather}
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Julien Nguyễn {Φειδίας}
3 years
Explore the online exhibition. it is very good.
@MatthewMarks
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3 years
"Julien Nguyen: Pictures of the Floating World" is now on view at 523 West 24th Street in New York. Explore the online exhibition: @pictorangelicvs
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1 year
Recently I was asked to design an invitation for @LoeweOfficial ‘s upcoming menswear show and for it I painted this miniature, in watercolor on vellum, of @333nikolaos the guise of fortune inspired by a small drawing from Prud’hon of the same subject.
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2 months
this painting has haunted me since my student days
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Chancellor!
2 months
"Griffin and Dragon" by Ernst Fuchs is an all-timer 4 sure
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2 years
cézanne
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1 month
🎻𝑖 can see clearly now the rain is gon𝑒
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Julien Nguyễn {Φειδίας}
2 years
it is a plague for people my age, caught up in internecine nonsense that has no bearing or any positive effect on the shape of a life or the course of passions. An inhaler filled with copium nursing lungs choked with resentment.
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Julien Nguyễn {Φειδίας}
3 years
saw Jeff Koons whispering in a corner with his back slightly crooked tonight. he looked thinner, and his clothing palette was set in a range of dark dark grays
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Julien Nguyễn {Φειδίας}
2 years
i feel like the purpose of ai art is to convince tech people they don’t need to learn about art
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Julien Nguyễn {Φειδίας}
3 years
religious art should not be brown and gloomy. the greatest religious art was not. it is only soot and fashions of the 17th and 18th centuries (fairly godless times) that make it appear thus to our myopic eyes. let us bask in His light again.
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2 years
Netflix deserves its bleeding. Thank goodness. Drivel must meet its ditch.
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Julien Nguyễn {Φειδίας}
2 years
culture must be lived not just read, theorized, or staged like an arrangement of flowers or a window display, though flowers and window displays can and do point towards whole universes of feeling and thought and action.
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3 years
same
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3 years
some cézanne for the boys
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Julien Nguyễn {Φειδίας}
1 year
disheveled, feeling great…a great day outside momentarily yesterday 🖤❤️
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Julien Nguyễn {Φειδίας}
6 months
twice in my life I have encountered artists who—were it not for a self-obsession so total that it crippled in them any capacity for self-development and what seemed to be almost a reflexive need to attempt to manipulate the behaviors of those around them in relation to their own
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4 years
I really like that a few celebrities occasionally don my paintings with all of the strange dissonance and strange ideas contained therein
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Julien Nguyễn {Φειδίας}
3 years
why does every young man wearing a suit or tailored piece of clothing as a point of fashion look like a chauffeur or a waiter or an inept hitman from some horribly budgeted scifi. without poise, distinction, discernment, or bearing. no sense of the use of purpose of things.
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7 months
listening to La Vita Nouva to hear dante wrestle between illusion love and death
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Julien Nguyễn {Φειδίας}
3 years
based jodie
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The Hollywood Observer
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Jodie Foster reveals new details about her initial reaction after obsessed fan John Hinckley Jr. shot President Reagan in 1981: “Truth be told, I was a little impressed.”
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Julien Nguyễn {Φειδίας}
2 years
If u do something (creative) and other people try to neg u about it u have to stand by it as a matter of principle and honor if you know yourself to have acted in good faith, accepting it for what it is or else u undercut your reasons for doing it in the first place.
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3 years
Dad’s bougainvilleas have formed a perfect gate after 9 years of growth
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5 months
peinture à l’huile
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3 years
work driven by resentment will never cease to reek of desperation, no matter how aggressive, pointed, or flamboyant it’s gestures towards virility may be.
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2 months
the way frank benson uses paint like clay or wax
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6 months
she sells seashells by the sea shore
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4 months
first attempt at coq au vin 10/10 except forgot the pearl onions
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4 years
@dImEnSiOn_TiDe It’s why all their art sucks
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3 years
greatest column since 426 b.c.
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3 years
basèd silverpoint vs cringe graphite
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2 years
pastel is an astonishing medium
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1 year
red jasper + madder lake + jasper + cochineal + a synthetic gosu (cobalt) + cochineal + lapis + cochineal + lead tin yellow + cochineal
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Julien Nguyễn {Φειδίας}
2 years
soup cannot save from nor damage this
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Julien Nguyễn {Φειδίας}
21 days
ok he ate or tore
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These are the breathtaking sets the painter David Hockney designed for Puccini’s Turandot, currently playing at the LA Opera, which I saw two weekends ago and could not believe my eyes.
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Julien Nguyễn {Φειδίας}
2 years
❗️stop by tomorrow night if you are in New York City from 6-8pm for 𝓣ℎ𝑒 𝓟𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟’𝑠 𝓝𝑒𝑤 𝓣𝑜𝑜𝑙𝑠 at Nahmad Contemporary ( @Joe_Nahmad ) , a riveting show of many works made by many artists with many strange tools organized by @ellecny1 and @deankissick .❤️‍🔥📀🖍
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Julien Nguyễn {Φειδίας}
3 years
love my dad
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Julien Nguyễn {Φειδίας}
2 years
in several friendships that have failed I began to get the sense that I was viewed more as a foil or as a tool than as myself. or when I became primarily an object of comparison. trying to use other people to measure yourself leads to curdling of the spirit
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