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venus rising: and no boyfriend in sight
She was the perfect beauty. Beloved of prince and painter, Simonetta Vespucci was the Renaissance ideal. … The visage of a ravishing, young woman appears again and again in the art of Sandro Botticelli, Early Italian Renaissance painter. It is … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Botticelli, Brenda Harness, Claudio Angelini, David Bellingham, Donatello, Donatello Sculpture, E.H. Gombrich, Ernst Gombrich, Felipe Fernandez-Arnesto, Ghirlandaio, Guiliano de' Medici, Lorenzo Medici, Marco de Marinis, Michelangelo, Piero di Cosimo, Sharon Fermor, Simonetta Vespucci, Vasari, Venus and Aphrodite
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non objective art-chitecture
Kandinsky was always acclaimed as the foremost originator of the new idea in modern art, non-objective art.Frank Lloyd Wright claimed he was doing these paintings in 1898, even before the twentieth-century started claiming the origin of the new ideas in … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Frank Lloyd Wright, frank lloyd wright guggenheim, Frank Lloyd Wright Kandinsky, Frank Lloyd Wright LEGO, Frank Lloyd Wright Midway Gardens, Frank Lloyd Wright Robie House, Guggenheim Museum, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog
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its got rhythm
In his angular forms and ardent theories a profession searching for prophets seemed to have found a new vision. … With good reason, people seldom look twice at the random piles of brick, steel, and concrete that stand along our … Continue reading
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Tagged Buckminster Fuller, Frank Lloyd Wright, George Howe architect, Louis Kahn, Louis Kahn architect, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Nathaniel Kahn, Oscar Stonarov, Paul Cret architect, Robert Adam Architect, Robert Adam Roman phantasy
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beggin’ brothers: mystery at the altar
“My monastery descends from the heavens, touching the earth only where it must.” – Le Corbusier. A sacred melancholy. An esthetic hardness at the expense of spirituality. Not much glory here. Little aura of radiance that emanates from god, no … Continue reading
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Tagged alvar aalto, church architecture, corbusier la tourette, couturier church, couturier tourette, famous Architecture, Frank Lloyd Wright, iannis xenakis, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, religious architecture
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roadside architecture: sweeping out the old twerps
by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) i say – “fuck frank gehry and philip johnson and rem khoolhaus, etc. etc. ad naseum.” i say those guys are total ass clowns wasting everybody’s time and dime on their masturbatory fantasies of power. … Continue reading
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Tagged art chantry, bing crosby tacoma, frank gehry, glenn beck vernon, HQ crane rentals, i.m. pei, martin luther king monument, MLK monument, Philip Johnson, rainier bank tower, rem khoolhaus, robert venturi, seattle art museum, Seattle World`s Fair
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traces of wiped-out existences
how is holocaust art received in the land “of the perpetrators”? Well that depends… In a way, its the politics of remembrance and memory.Or at least the problematics. Memory is often the theme with the focus not on what is … Continue reading
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Tagged arthur c. canto, boris lurie, brett ashley kaplan, christian boltanski, ernst nolte, esther shalev-gerz, gunter demnig, harold marcuse, inge stephan, james e. young, jochen gerz, leah rosh, manfred zach, Michel Foucault, peter eisenman, Raul Hilberg, reinhard matz, Ronald Reagan, rudolf herz, Theodor Adorno
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duck soup and poop
It started off as what would be considered toy models. Ultimately, they contributed to the development of early industrial age machinery. At the time, there was a fad for the mechanical and his work almost qualifies to be in the … Continue reading