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Category Archives: Modern Art
dada: nothing is by accident
It began with an ironic and anarchic temper with origins in eighteenth century skepticism which was subsequently absorbed into the culture of urban and metropolitan thought processes through Baudelaire and Manet among others and it all came to a scrappy … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Baudelaire, Dada Art, Edouard Manet, jean arp, Johannes Baargeld, Kurt Schwitters
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so cute you could die
Zany,the often obscure cult of cute with its cutting edge cookie cutter style of homogenized aesthetic quality as mass commodity. An aggressive antidote to the beautiful or the sublime, but rather irritating and shallow often in the realm of the … Continue reading
thrift wrap mysteries
by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com ) this is a japanese 45 baggie sleeve from (i’m guessing by way of that particular logo design) from at least the 1960’s, maybe earlier. i collect these crappy little sleeves because they completely fascinate … Continue reading
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Tagged 78 rpm record sleeves, art chantry, columbia records, columbia records 45 rpm, european graphics 1950's-1960's, japanese 45 sleeves, japanese design work, japanese graphic design, japanese records, max huber, photostat camera flex lens, photostat cameras, record sleeves, robert massin, swiss grid style, thrift store treasures
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cairo: flights into egypt
Sensationalism.The aesthetic of violence in the Society of the Spectacle. The birth of the agitated space and a relishing of absurd charismatic appeal. Art, like the society around it, became caught between the joy of freedom and the fear of … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Art
Tagged Antoine-Jean Gros, darcy grimaldo grigsby, Dominique-Vivant Denon, Edward Said, Jacques-Louis David, Jean Baptiste Regnault, joachim beuckelaer, john frederick lewis, Louis Sass, martin kramer, Robert Rosenblum, Saad Eddin Ibrahim, Suzi Gablik, sylvain bellenger
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growing up absurd: disavowals of innocence
In Jan Miense Molenaer’s “The Smoker” from the 1620’s, viewers have an up-close regard on merrymakers, where children are inserted as metaphors for adult behavior. There is a capturing of the spirit of the figures through actions and facial expressions.The … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Art
Tagged Adele Enersen, Charles Baudelaire, Fragonard, Frans Hals, Honoré Fragonard, Jan Miense Molenaar, Jan Miense Molenaer, Jan Steen, Nina maria Kleivan, Norman Rockwell, Pieter Bruegel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Richard Halpern, Walter Benjamin
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true grit and rough justice: wild west as arcades project
Charles Baudelaire incarnated, in his bohemian manner, the democratization of poetry. It was a new language that lacked an academic subtext; totally alien to he Academie Francaise to which he aspired. It was the language of the “flaneur” to which … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Art
Tagged Anita Sarkeesian, Charles Baudelaire, David Frum, Ethan Coen, Franz Hessel, Hailee Steinfeld, Janet Wolf, Jeff Bridges, Joel and Ethan Coen, Louise Brooks, Margarete Bohme, Otto Dix, Rebecca Keegan, Robert Fulford, Sigmund Freud, True Grit, Walter Benjamin
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The sheen factor: how to euthanize a fish
Although March 8th will mark the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day, women can ostensibly claim a dry or cold form of progress, but under the veneer of egality, they remain deeply exploited; it takes more than law to bridge … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Art
Tagged Anna Holmes New York Times, Caravaggio, Charlie Sheen, Edward Bernays, Frederic Fekkai, Jane MacDougall National Post, Lindsay Lohan, Maurizio Cattelan, Pablo Picasso, Simon Houpt, Stephanie Seymour, Walter Benjamin
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A note of dissonance: who cares if you listen
Electronic composition. Its an odd contradiction: Impenetrable, inaccessible, yet highly influential. A notoriety built partly on his personal view that reinforced a belief that contemporary music was for an elite cognoscenti. His supporters of his twelve tone theories, including Stephen … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Art, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged Alban Berg, Arnold Schoenberg, Greg Sandow, James Levine, Laura Karpman, Milton Babbitt, Pablo Picasso, Philip Glass, Pierre Boulez, Richard Feynman, Robert Hilferty, Robert P. Morgan, Stephen Sondheim, Steve Reich, Steve Soderberg, Theodor Adorno, Wiley Hitchcock
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thinking out of a box: ”le smack down” 2.0
Raw and provocative. Thinking out of the box. What should an art museum look like? Something that would whiff of a little notoriety, distinguish itself….. In the case of a new, out of the blue proposal for the Whitney Museum, … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Miscellaneous, Modern Art
Tagged Frank Lloyd Wright, Hugh Ferriss, Jean Nouvel, Jean Nouvel Tower Verre, John Beckmann, John Beckmann Axis Mundi, Lane Lamerson, Marcel Breuer Whitney Museum, Raimund Abraham, Renzo Piano, RIchard Rosenbloom, Sonny Liston, Venturi Scott Brown
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CHANCE MEETING: COLLAGE OF THE INVERTED OEDIPUS
Chance. A roll of the dice within that casino located in that vast structure of the human mind. The roulette wheel stops, the cards are flipped, the chips rise and fall.Chance is what arises from that volatile unpredictable mix of … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Breton, Balmer, Dada Movement, Dadaists, David Hopkins, Donald Kuspit, Dostoevsky, Edgar Allan Poe, Edward Quinn, Elizabeth Legge, Giorgio de Chirico, Ingres, Jean Paulhan, John Milton Paradise Lost, Jose Maria Faerne, Jules Verne, Man Ray, Max Ernst, Otto Dix, Paul Auster, Paul Eluard, Salvador dali, Sigmund Freud, Stuart Nolan, Surrealism, Werner Spies
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