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Monthly Archives: February 2010
PICASSO & WOMEN IN WAITING
”The Europeans had shown the way; yet the avant-garde American artists had to work desperately to break away from the influence of the School of Paris and especially from that Olympian, Pablo Picasso. Like the Collective Unconscious or the dreams … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Arshile Gorky, Chaim Koppelman, Courbet, Eli Siegel, Eugene Delacroix, Jackson Pollock, Pablo Picasso, Picasso, Velasquez, willem de Kooning, William De Kooning
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RHINOS, PICADORS & MINOTAURS
”Picasso had never been a political artist, and as Jung noted, his images seemed increasingly to withdraw from objective reality and primarily reflected some inner psychic state that he was trying to work out on canvas. He made no war-related … Continue reading
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Tagged Aaron Ross, Adorno, Andrew Wyeth, Carl Jung, Dali, Herschel B. Chipp, Jean Dubuffet, Leonard Baskin, Pablo Picasso, Picasso, Picasso Guernica, Salvador dali, Spanish Civil War, Spanish fascism, Theodor Adorno, Velasquez, Vermeer
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SEE IT, FEEL IT & LIVE IT
It has been as impossible for Picasso to dissociate his art from the human values that art has traditionally served, as it has been for him to imitate traditional forms. He was the most extraordinary artist of the twentieth century … Continue reading
aN eXPLOSIVELy fERTILe mINd
He was the most resourceful of innovators. Pablo Picasso transmuted old traditions into modern idioms. He might even be called the last of the great humanists. When Picasso ( 1881-1973 ) was alive, what he was doing, or had stopped … Continue reading
ALWAYS READ THE FINE PRINT
”Art and religion have been united from the beginning of all civilization, because of the common mystery of their origin and their magical effect on humanity. Etymologically they are allied. The latin term “ars” was at first used in connection … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham, Afghanistan, Eastern Islamic World, Ghurid Qur'am, Ghurids, Islam, Islamic architecture, Islamic Art, Islamic theology, Islamic thought, Jam Minaret, Jham Minaret, John D. Graham, John Graham, Koran calligraphy, Moses, Muslim art, Quran calligraphy, Suryat maryam
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MIRROR MIRROR ON THE EASEL
who is the fairest painter since Medieval?.” I’m maybe not as good as Raphael”, he once conceded, ”but there is more tension in my canvases”. One of the greatest admirers of his own haunting portraits was the eccentric Russian called … Continue reading
STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN
Lost and found.A cultural tower of Babel or a stairway to heaven. In a mountain valley of Afghanistan a French explorer discovered this ancient Ghorid tower, previously known only to legend. It is an artifact, an imposing one, of Ghurid … Continue reading
KILL THE DEVIL WITH PROBABILITY THEORY
When the truth is found to be lies/ and all the joy within you dies ( Somebody to Love, Jefferson Airplane ) The opening scene in A Serious Man is fictional folkloric legend where an elder man, believed to be … Continue reading
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Tagged A Serious Man, Aleister Crowley, Charles Mackay, Coen Brothers, Einstein, Franz Kafka, Freud, Fyvush Finkel, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Jefferson Airplane, Joel and Ethan Coen, Rashi, S. Ansky, Sabbatai Zevi, Shrodinger's Cat, Sigmund Freud, Steve Menashi
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SERIOUS MEN
”Receive with simplicity all that happens to you”, or so Rashi, the Jewish mystic sage is alleged to have uttered.It appeared in the opening scene of the film A Serious Man.To which must be addeda Korean student is asking to … Continue reading
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Tagged A Serious Man, Arthur Schopenhauer, Bach, Coen Brothers, Death In Venice, Eyes Wide Shut, Franz Werfel, Jack Abramoff, Jefferson Airplane, Luchino Visconti, Michael Stuhlberg, Nietzsche, Rashi, Richard Wagner, Stanley Kubrick, Thomas Mann, Verdi, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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