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4-20-2024: World Cultures and Modern Art at the 1972 Munich Olympics - EPISODE2

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When the project of putting the catalogue of World Cultures and Modern Art 1972 exhibit online the objectives were: first, to share this unique material and make it accessible to others, as a collection of texts about art, under the thematic of cultures encountering and assimilation, and as an historical collection of writings, showing some mindsets within the art community in that time; second, to make a connection with another topic of interest, that is the mandala colouring activity, seen as an initiation to art and also seen as a therapeutic activity according to some sources -why artgraphic-db adopted another approach of exploring mandalaya-ing and producing original patterns and mandalas, making also the connection between the traditional buddhistic mandala and the popular commercial mandala to color, as today known-, and third to make another connection with what can be produced with a computer, including with how to make a mandala, or color it, and, if it can be seen as art and...