Tag Archives: Andre Breton

the iron shady

What to make of the Iron Lady? The entire phenomenon of Margaret Thatcher as societal vehicle. It does recall, somewhat cynically, Guy Debord and The Society of the Spectacle. Here, an ideology is created through publicity. That is, publicity is … Continue reading

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taking stock: dividend under the big tent

Art and money. It’s a toxic mix. Money values dominate art values and art has to be submissive to doctrine and ideology. Its called playing the game. Patronage has strings attached so that the art itself is a form of … Continue reading

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proceeding by learned recollection

Finding the point at which the same and the other are indiscernible. It is where the center of thought is a blurry area characterized by discontinuity where Marcel Duchamp said the impersonality of artistic action can affirm itself. The ready … Continue reading

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paranoid spittled walls

This exaltation of the violent compulsive spontaneity so reified by the Dada movement, Andre Breton and Max Ernst in particular was put to almost absurd extremes into an effort to appropriate Leonardo Da Vinci into their nihilistic process of attacking … Continue reading

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Renaissance dali: the man with the golden mean

Nuclear mysticism. Merging the classical technique of the Renaissance with the modernism of science and a generous sprinkling of the Golden Mean. A rearguard action that recognized the decline of art while simultaneously denying it. Duchamp saw to that with … Continue reading

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melancholy scribbles and drips: one dribble at a line

Mere doodling of only psychological interest? Even then. After its initial surge of authenticity could abstract expressionism be sustained? The mendaciousness of the art industry to hype this style knew no bounds. Like Marcel Duchamp asserting that everyone is an … Continue reading

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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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languid luxury: the quicksand complex

Inertia as the root of evil. Is it the same as laziness? What to make of leisure present in the ideologized function of art where an aesthetic of laziness seems connected to the notion of conspicuous consumption, comparative preferences and … Continue reading

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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

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l’amour fou: abstract extreme ambivalence

Surrealism as an inherently anti-woman movement? The female body viewed as primitive machines designed socially,psychologically and mechanically to carry out primitive functions.This intensity and dept of a response to women was a rupture with traditional figurative art, a certain appropriation … Continue reading

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