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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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Tagged american abstract expressionism, Andre Breton, Arshile Gorky, atelier 17, Clement Greenberg, J.A.D. Ingres, Jean Cocteau, Marcel Duchamp, roberto matta, Salvador dali, Sigmund Freud, stanley william hayter, Surrealism, Tony Matta
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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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Tagged Abstract expressionism, Andre Breton, Andre masson, Andy Warhol, Arshile Gorky, atelier 17, Clement Greenberg, harold rosenberg art critic, Jackson Pollock, Joan Miro, John Graham, matta echaurren, Pablo Picasso, stanley william hayter, Walt Whitman, willem de Kooning, Yves Tanguay
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marvelous automatic: Miro and Roving the Unconscious
Nothing was ever certain about Spanish painter Joan Miro, except the certainty of surprise. A product of rugged , fantasy loving Catalonia, Miro created an unpredictable magic world of forms of his own, that in its way matched together incompatible … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Breton, Andre masson, Arshile Gorky, Chapman Brothers, Ernest Hemingway, Hal Foster, Hans Bellmer, Jackson Pollock, Jacques Doucet, Jacques Viot, Joan Miro, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Louis Aragon, Mark Tobey, Mary Ann Caws, Max Ernst, Melissa Montgomery, Paul Hammond, Paul Klee, Rsalind Krauss, Sigmund Freud, Surrealist painting, Willard Bohn
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PICASSO & WOMEN IN WAITING
”The Europeans had shown the way; yet the avant-garde American artists had to work desperately to break away from the influence of the School of Paris and especially from that Olympian, Pablo Picasso. Like the Collective Unconscious or the dreams … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Arshile Gorky, Chaim Koppelman, Courbet, Eli Siegel, Eugene Delacroix, Jackson Pollock, Pablo Picasso, Picasso, Velasquez, willem de Kooning, William De Kooning
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Artistic Identity In Exile
Armenia is a land-locked nation in the region of Eurasia southwest of the Caspian Sea. Their history has been marked by innumerable invasions, with Armenia having only intermittent degrees of sovereignty from the full and fledging to all shades,variations and … Continue reading
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