After spending about three hours fishing through classic, arty movie posters, pop-art style adds, record covers and the like in a store in Soho, London, this was the one I brought home with me. It stands on my wall now, and I consider it to be the first work of art I ever bought. OK -technically, it's a movie poster, but there's a lot of art in it. In the purest sense, and in the broadest one, too. I picked it because I got all the references: to the film, and to the artistic movement which shaped it visually. I've always felt drawn by the unmistakable, uneasy, uncanny nature of German Expressionism and once and again I've surprised my eyes and my taste being called at by artistic productions of some sort of another casting an expressionist shadow. But I've never truly explored it or conscientiously learned about it. This may be the right time, and this project the right tool. I can't think of a better way to get it going than to do so with the picture that finally triggered my curiosity. Let the experiment begin!
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