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Tag Archives: Albrecht Durer
fundamental creation: an evolving debate
Supposedly, beliefs do have consequences. And its a long standing argument where a vindication of evolution over revelation is warranted, justified, or an outright falsehood, junk science foisted on the public. Depsite the seeming evidence of random, mutual and natural … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Albert Einstein, Albrecht Durer, Bob Dylan, Henri Rousseau, Henry Morris, Jan Gossaert, Jan the elder Bruegel, John Whitcomb, Lucas Cranach, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Monty White Answers in Genesis, Paul Broun Republican, Ross Rosevear, The Genesis Flood book, Werner Keller the Bible as History
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swift kick in the keegster
Psst! Pass the bum wipe. Perversion seems intrinsic to modern art, at least at the split off side that gazes into the bowl of disavowal. And this has been so from the beginning; the long arc extending back to an … Continue reading
collection with the public purse
Charles I was Britain’s most discerning and energetic royal patron, buying much art and encouraging many continental artists. With his ascension to the throne in 1625, it was a turning point in English connoisseurship. Charles had grown up under the … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Albrecht Durer, Anthony Van Dyck, Bernini, Charles I titian, Diego Velazquez, Earl of Arundel Charles I, Hans Holbein the Elder, Holbein Erasmus, Hugo van der Goes, Jan Van Dyck, King Charles I art collection, King Charles I England, Raphael Cartoons, Rembrandt Collection Charles I, Robert Campin, Rubens, Titian Girl in a fur wrap, Titian Venus of the Pardo
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no redemption left behind
It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. And if I can add to Dickens, it was the end of times. The end of all times. The Peace Train is coming. Even Dickens was not immune … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Albrecht Durer, Amy Goodman Democracy Now, Gershom Scholem, Giotto di Bordone, Harold Bloom, Jerry B. Jenkins, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mike Huckabee, Noam Chomsky, Schmuley Boteach, Slavoj Zizek, The Left Behind Novels, The Moral Majority, Tim LaHaye
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chilling in the city of the sun
People have always tried to imagine the world as it might become, dissatisfied as we are, with the world as it exists. … For a century after Thomas More there was no sign of significant new utopias. Then within a … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Albrecht Durer, Francis Bacon New Atlantis, Heinrich Schickhardt, J.V. Andreae, J.V. Andreae Christianopolis, Jan van Eyck, Johann Valentin Andreae, John Heydon, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Pierre Mignard painting, Sir Thomas More, Tommaso Campanella, Will Durant
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tender temple
The tender romance of Cupid and Psyche is the central theme of this fragile Meissen “Temple of Love” also called Temple of Honour, conceived in the gay rococo spirit of eighteenth-century Europe. Behind the lovers, Venus rides her peacock on … Continue reading
not the same dust
There is a struggle between darkness and light, day and night that goes back to earliest antiquity. Kandinsky wrote about this ability to find the “in between” that would reconcile the two in his “Spiritual in Art.” But Germany? Its … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged Albrecht Durer, Anne Frank, Anne Frank Museum, Bach, bosch prodigal son, Hieronymous Bosch, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, madame tussaud berlin, meyer levin, Otto Frank, Sigmund Freud, Wassily Kandinsky, westerbork
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bandits with brush holsters
Just received some travel cases from Silverbrush for short handled brushes. The Monaco and Tuscany. $12 each and well made. When you think of all the gadgets and accessories that exist you have to wonder what people did in the … Continue reading
kids play: just tickety-boo
There is the theory of Walter Benjamin on the discarded object, the former fetish object of capitalist consumer culture that becomes re-animated and re-contextualized after attaining junk and discard status. Transformed into a toy. It becomes re-emancipated with revolutionary potential … Continue reading
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