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the washington square drips and splatters
Hard to pinpoint what brought them together, this collection of opposites that endured to the end. Arshile Gorky was a late and marginal member in Andre Breton’s surrealist circle and he may have transmitted the importance of trusting introspection, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Abstract expressionism, Andre Breton, Andre masson, Andy Warhol, Arshile Gorky, atelier 17, Clement Greenberg, harold rosenberg art critic, Jackson Pollock, Joan Miro, John Graham, matta echaurren, Pablo Picasso, stanley william hayter, Walt Whitman, willem de Kooning, Yves Tanguay
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liberating the line: painting the bestial floor
Was the use of automatism to pry into abstraction and the subconscious essential to Abstract Expressionism? It can be asserted that it was significant in unlocking the mystery and meaning of the abstract plane; a gateway into the world of … Continue reading
is it art without the spiritual?
Is art, art, when there is no spiritual content? Or is it simply at the level of a visual language that descends to the level of advertising and marketing management? Does the absence of the embodiment of the spiritual mean … Continue reading
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Tagged Abstract expressionism, Andy Warhol, anselm kiefer, Damien Hirst, georg baselitz, Gerhard Richter, Jackson Pollock, James Hillman, Jeff Koons, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Leni Riefenstahl, Marcel Duchamp, Piet Mondrian, polke, social realist art, veronica brady, warhol pop art, Wassily Kandinsky
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my back pages and bent pages
When erotica was the printed word, and the language of “smut ” had a different aesthetic… Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com) Dirty books. With bent pages. Stains. Yellowed. Icky. The underground world of the dirty book market seems to have gone away, … Continue reading
CHAOS THEORY:MEMO FROM TURNER
Memo From Turner Didn’t I see you down in San Antone on a hot and dusty night Weren’t you eating eggs in Sammy’s there when the black man drew the knife Didn’t you drown the Jew in Rampton when he … Continue reading
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Tagged Abstract expressionism, Albert Einstein, Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique, Hector Berlioz, Henri Matisse, JMW Turner, John Constable, John Mallard William Turner, John Ruskin, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Keith Richards, Mick Jagger, Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones, Mozart, Pinchas Steinberg, Rolling Stones Memo from Turner, Simon Schama, Sir George Beaumont, Turner, William Hazlitt, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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LOFT STORY
”Pop art’s origins are in Britain, specifically with Richard Hamilton, Eduardo Paolozzi and the Independent Group. Unlike their American counter-parts, these Brit pop artists didn’t have a critical figure like a Steinberg or Greenberg to co-opt or codify them. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Abstract expressionism, Andy Warhol, Astromen, Claes Oldenburg, Eduardo Paolozzi, Henri Rousseau, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Mimi Gross, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cadmus, pop art, Ralph Bakshi, Red Grooms, Reginald Marsh, Richard Hamilton, Robert Crumb, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, willem de Kooning
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CONSIGNED TO OBLIVION
Art in Limbo. Like lost packages at the post office without a return address. Metaphorically, on the bottom of the ocean in Davy Jones locker. Painters without a name, art without a number. Every generation of art has its casualties … Continue reading
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Tagged Abstract expressionism, Action painting, American Art, Andrew Wyeth, Ben Shahn, Edward Hopper, Fortune Magazine, Jack Levine, Jackson Pollock, Judas Iscariot, Justin Fox, London Royal Academy of Arts, Raphael Soyer, Robert Heilbroner, Robert Hughes, Social realism, Solzenitsyn, Walter Stuemphig, willem de Kooning
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ABSTRACT PLEASURE, DEEP ROOTED EXPRESSIONISM
Surrealism remained a powerful element in bohemian art and culture long after it had lost its novelty, shine and new car smell. It remained an attractive option for leftist artists and writers who were ill at ease with the post-Trotsky … Continue reading
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Tagged Abstract expressionism, Action painting, Andre Breton, Andre masson, Charles Dickens, Courbet, D.H. Lawrence, Dali, Dominick LaCapra, Freud, Goya, goya Black paintings, Guardian Co. UK, Harold Rosenburg, Jackson Pollock, Joseph Conrad, Jung, Magritte, Mark Rothko, Richard Hughes, Robert Hughes, Robert Motherwell, Sigmund Freud, Theodor Adorno, Virginia Woolf, willem de Kooning
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