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money matter: paint by big $ numbers
Are people buying the work for its aesthetic qualities or are they buying the brand. The artist as brand. Although Artur Koestler said buying a reproduction is the same as owning the outright original. Its Cultural economics where the market … Continue reading
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Tagged adele bloch-bauer, Alberto Giacometti, alfred lessing, Arthur Koestler, daniel boorstin, Gustav Klimt, Jackson Pollock, Lucian Freud, Marcel Duchamp, Meyer Schapiro, Pablo Picasso, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Thorstein Veblen, willem de Kooning
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unvarnished truth: the naked gape
Leaving nothing to the shadowy side of the imagination. Unvarnished. To see the naked without illusions and still accept it, warts and all. If the familiarity becomes tedious and banal, so be it. Its emotional language has simply talked itself … Continue reading
turning the back pages: thin people redux
Can memories be esthetically radicalized? What is the process? Taking the old image, the old picture, what Freud termed the hyper-aesthetic memory, the fragmented slivers of flash, then using them to catalyze creativity. D.W. Winnicott had a genial idea of … Continue reading
snap crackle and popping the con game
Can we shun a linear narrative, that narcotic like pacifier marked by its insistence, frequency and heavy dosage 7/24 in favor of a collage of episodes and impressions which means, by extension, a personal engagement with subculture. This also implies … Continue reading
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Tagged Alberto Giacometti, Auguste Blanqui, corey ogilvie, Donald Kuspit, Edmund White, Friedrich Nietzsche, fritz zuber-buhler, gene franks, hadrien laroche, Jean Genet, Jean Paul Sartre, Jonathan McIntosh, occupy wall street, W.B. Yeats, Walter Benjamin
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new frontier
The modern sense of the human being. The eternal sense of the individual condition as essentially one of individual conflict and torment, caught in some nasty crosswinds between building and demolition- often simultaneously- the regression and enlightened, the hysterical and … Continue reading
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Tagged Alberto Giacometti, Auguste Blanqui, Charles Baudelaire, Claude Monet, Clement Greenberg, David Sylvester, Donald Kuspit, Franz Kafka, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gustav Landauer, Jackson Pollock, Jean Genet, Jean Paul Sartre, Jerry Saltz, Martin Buber, richard hamilton pop art, Richard Huelsenbeck, Surrealism
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genet’s existence and essence
Complexity of atmosphere and motive. Are morality and aesthetics mutually exclusive? In the case of Jean Genet, does eroticizing the victims, often his own lovers, wipe the slate clean, peeling away the layers of Judeo-Chrisitian morality? Jean Genet always put … Continue reading
first clever then banal: empty magic
The nihilistic hollowness of Baldessari; the emotional and intellectual vacuum at its core. The implied sadism and hatred of humanity.Is this a kind of messianic art , one that allows for an inverse association between what is profane and the … Continue reading
Miro and the green paradises of childhood
Perhaps the most striking characteristic of a child’s art is that it cannot go wrong. There are no bad drawings by children; in the same way, there are no bad paintings by Joan Miro. The German dramatist Heinrich von Kleist … Continue reading
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Tagged Adolf Wolfi, Adolf Wolfli, Alberto Giacometti, Alfonso Ossorio, Andre Breton, Andre masson, Carolyn Lancher, Charles Baudelaire, Donald Kuspit, Ernest Hemingway, Heinrich von Kleist, Jean Dubuffet, Joan Miro, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Louise Bourgeois, Matthew Weinstein, Molly Nesbit, Paul Klee, Philip Guston, Robert Rosenblum, Rosalind Krauss
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fine art “motorama”: hawk to the rubes
Guest blog by Art Chantry.Its a cheezy embarrassing system, one in which the squeaky wheel gets the grease. The most ruthless hustlers and self-promoting con-men become the wealthiest and most celebrated in the fine art world… Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): When … Continue reading
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Tagged adolph gottleib, Alberto Giacometti, Alexander Calder, Andrew Wyeth, Andy Warhol, arnold varga, art chantry, carnegie institute, dale chihuly, Damien Hirst, David Smith, ellsworth kelly, Francis Bacon, Jasper Johns, Jean Dubuffet, Josef Albers, Leonard Baskin, Mark Tobey, max bill, Pablo Picasso, Robert Motherwell
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