Category Archives: Modern Arts/Craft

pontificating over pi

Finding patterns in the random.It is an accepted fact that our world is composed up of golden spirals. That is, the human being is made up of spirals and collectively we are living within one huge spiral. The question is, … Continue reading

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like father like fun

…the almost unknown collection of the grand old man of impressionism was left to an equally unknown museum. At the death of Michel Monet, in 1966, the only son of Claude Monet, the officials knew they were going to get … Continue reading

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patchen: painting poems

by Art Chantry: seemingly forgotten and long overlooked is kenneth patchen. this guy is one of those american originals, a guy who hacked out his own path through the wilderness and just kept hacking away his entire life. people either … Continue reading

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art for the sake of creative destruction

Consciousness of the all-mighty dollar is pretty pervasive, even overwhelming. In the modern art world it informs aesthetic and spiritual content like everything else in society, conquering art such that art itself is a pure commodity, a sub-species of money … Continue reading

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back to earle

…In his unusual paintings Carroll Cloar set down his memories, an admittance of sentiment, within the private world of childhood in the southern small town where he grew up. He presents images such as a prim ghost in gingham standing … Continue reading

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name game

What’s in a name? As it relates to persons, the question can evoke some perfectly straight answers such as Baker or Taylor, or remote paternity of,say, a Jackson or a Fitzgerald. Or it may signify color ( White, Brown or … Continue reading

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dreyfus: the great e-scape-goat

The hiding of evidence on the basis of the interests of national security has been with us ever since.The Dreyfus Affair never goes away… …It was the classic interactionof chance and necessity that set the wheels of truth in motion. … Continue reading

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transports of delight

Transports of delight and other contraptions. The great age of invention is not over. Looking back, his fantastical engines did not impress the patent office, but artist William Crutchfield was a master in thinking them up….Harking back to a heroic … Continue reading

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the naked gunslinger

by Art Chantry: wm. burroughs loved guns. he was photographed shooting guns so many times that it was a standard deal when you dropped by to visit him that you’d go out back and shoot with him, then get your … Continue reading

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bucky the pop star

by Art Chantry: note to designers: if you ever run across a copy of this paperback book in your goodwill or book exchange center (stuffed in next to romance novels, i’m sure), SNAG IT! it’s a really cool little book. … Continue reading

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