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drinking with the man
from Paul Hamilton of the Bisonics: DRINKING WITH JESUS I’ve been drinking with Jesus In a bar full of New Cross geezers He won the jackpot on the one-armed bandit Scooping the loot he smiled, ‘That’s the way Dad planned … Continue reading
collapsing the geometric order
The search for emotional impact. Classicism and romanticism are only tenuously compatible. Like Cain and Abel, its a contrapuntal piece of music, that if played often enough, like Glenn Gould with Bach, can create some some odd exposures to the … Continue reading
the poor don’t need your pity
…But John Galsworthy’s concern with the suffering of others was occasioned more by the pain knowledge of it gave him than by the pain experience of it gave them: It was the sensitive liberal’s position in succinct form.But once awakened … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged Andrew Graham Dixon, arthur galsworthy, augustus edwin mulready, Charles Dickens, george elgar hicks, Gustave Dore, jacob viner, james collinson paintings, Jeremy Bentham, John Galsworthy, John Maynard Keynes, John Stuart Mill, Joseph Conrad, Malthus, thomas benjamin kennington
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road weary
It is the triumph of capitalist rationality. Call it Fordism. The dark side, apparent from the beginning, is the dangerous temptation of an inhuman but very rational drive toward profit. Fascism. There is no doubt that the landscape created by … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged Alfred Stieglitz, Andrew Graham Dixon, bianca mugyenyi, Billy Wilder, charles sheeler, diana dors, Filippo Marinetti, Georgia O'keefe, giacomo balla, italian futurism, james j. flink, John Sloan, Max Horkheimer, Reclaim the Streets, Rick Salutin, Theodor Adorno, yves engler
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infernal machines & delicious associations
Another article from graphic designer Art Chantry. This time Art shares his insights on Saul Steinberg of The New Yorker magazine fame. The introduction is from an interview dating about fifteen years ago with Art. Chantry:There used to be a … Continue reading
Vroom Vroom : mechanical symbolism by the mileage
Its the original Fiat 500. The installation piece by Lorenzo Quinn features an almost 13 foot high child’s hand and forearm. Like a toddler giant Nephilim playing with a toy.The work alludes to the relationship between parents and their children … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Alastair Moss, Alexander Winton, Andrew Graham Dixon, Car Henge, Carhenge, Diego Rivera, Edsel Ford, Francis Picabia, Jim Reinders, John Alfred Heitman, John D. Rockefeller Sr., John Sloan, London 2012 Olympics, Lorenzo Quinn, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Nick Lambert, Noah Joseph, Paul Green Halcyon Gallery, Ransom Olds, Thorstein Veblen
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In search of the ubiquitous anecdote for the rank and file
To categorize pictures of the Salon type, whether by any subject or criteria, one could belabor each of the many types- the noble peasant, the Oriental, the jolly peasant, melancholy old ladies, religious pictures, the allegories- but in the end … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Andrew Graham Dixon, Charles Baudelaire, Eduard Charlemont, Eugene Delacroix, Gustave Courbet, Jean Leon Gerome, Joseph J. Rishel, Sir Edwin Landseer, Theophile Gautier, W.P. Frith, William Dyce, William Powell Frith
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the undraped: Of anecdotal interest
There are few styles in art that fell so far into disrepute as the once prized academic art of the nineteenth-century. As awful as much of it was, there are still grounds for some of it to be redeemable and … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Alexandre Cabanel, Andrew Graham Dixon, Edouard Manet, Ferdinand Georg Waldmuller, French Salon painting, Jean Leon Gerome, Jehan Georges Vibert, John Wolfe, Manet Olympia, Rosa Bonheur, Sir Edwin Landseer, Titian Venus of Urbino, William-Adolphe Bouguereau
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PASSION & ELEGANCE: Uneasy Companions
The work of Jan van Eyck, with its balanced, reserved, and dignified realism. is usually considered the summary expression of Flemish genius. His complete Flemishness, along with his unapproachable technical perfection, may explain why his art was less easily assimilated … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Andrew Graham Dixon, Annette Labedzki, Arnofini van eyck, Craig Harbison, Dale Kent, Dr. Beth Harris, Dr. Stephen Zucker, Dr. Steven Zucker, Drogin, Edwin Hall, Erwin Panofsky, Jan van Eyck, Linda Seidel, Master of Flémalle, Patrick Bernauw, Peter Voorn, Robert Campin, Rogier van der Weyden, Thomas a Kempis, Vermeer, William P. Coleman
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