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a brush with death
…Or is it the death of a brush. After many years of durable, reliable service, Heinz-Jordan has pulled the sheet over its gold sable line of decorative painting brushes. DOA. Min you the matte mauve colored handle always did portend … Continue reading
dreyfus was a goner
Why we cannot forget Dreyfus… …By having Du Paty deliver his memorandum at the last minute in a semi-clendestine way, and by enjoining the court to keep its contents secret, Gen. Auguste Mercier deprived the defense of its legal right … Continue reading
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picasso comet
The effect of the rise of esteem in the earlier periods of Picasso automatically put a grip on the reception of the later ones as they came off the easel. Since the end of WWII every freshly painted Picasso was … Continue reading
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Tagged amedeo modigliani, Clement Greenberg, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Francisco Goya, Ilya Repin, Jackson Pollock, Jonathan Richman, jonathan richman pablo picasso, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Man Ray, Norman Rockwell, Pablo Picasso, Picasso Analyst Cubist period, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Valentine Dedensing, William Blake
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man of those wild harsh forms and black humor
The so called “negroid” works of Picasso, Demoiselles D’Avignon, were the first Picassos to meet with acclaim in their time from avant-garde critics in both Europe and America. It was the historic Armory Show in 1913, which really brought Picasso … Continue reading
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Tagged amedeo modigliani, Armory Show 1913, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, MOMA Picasso collection, nelson rockefeller, nelson rockefeller art collection, Pablo Picasso, paris dealer paul rosenberg, roland penrose, Valentine Dedensing, Valentine Gallery
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max has wings
Its such a weird story and Picasso was such a cowardly figure. The myth of the great resistor is bunk. How di he get to paint so prodigiously during the war with the finest materials available? Max Jacob knew the … Continue reading
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Tagged alan dixon, amedeo modigliani, Arno Breker, brasillach, dan frank, gabriel aghion, Gertrude Stein, Hilton Kramer, irene nemirovsky, Jean Cocteau, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Marc Bloch, marcel ophuls, Max Jacob, Pablo Picasso, patricia sustrac, Robert Desnos, ward houser
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many rivers to cross
Brilliant. But relegated to the scrapheap. A dust bin discard. Just another tormented, energetic man who became an old wild man. Part of a weird process that maybe invented pop art. Maybe. You know the type. Caught between a passion … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice Neel, Allen Ginsberg, amedeo modigliani, Andy Warhol, charlie parker, David Amram, frank O'Hara, Gregory Corso, Jack Kerouac, Larry Rivers, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Miles Davis, Pablo Frank, Peter Orlovsky, Richard Bellamy, Sally Gross, steven rivers, willem de Kooning
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discarding the forced, formal and faked
Orgasms of nihilism. A typically contrarian view, and one that labels Picasso as a minor artist. Essentially, an attack on the formalism intrinsic to modernism which entails a crowding out, indeed suffocation of the spiritual content. Cubism, was after all, … Continue reading
memory lane
Perhaps the most compelling feature of modernism is the rejection of tragedy. A disdain and unconsciousness of within the context of a rupture with history. Its hubris, a mark of identity and also the genesis of its own failure, a … Continue reading
they never die in paradise apparently. just resting, waiting….
It is certainly one of the most enduring archetypes. One that even Jung could not extricate all the wrinkles, folds and complications from…. It’s called the hybridized biography. Imagined conversations of the mothers of famous men who happen to be … Continue reading
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Tagged amedeo modigliani, Carl Jung, Chaim Soutine, John Singer Sargent, Marc Chagall, mariana cook, Moritz Daniel Oppenheim, natalie david-weil, natalie David-Weill, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Stephen Marche, Steven Spielberg, valentin de Boulogne, Viktor Frankl
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