Tag Archives: August Macke

very dark: obscure pure bees

Posted on November 25, 2012 by Dave

Equal right to die…. Hannah Arendt termed it an “overpowering reality” that seems to be inherent in totalitarian systems in which the problem of evil could be analyzed but would remain elusive, a fugitive that escaped the most ardent manhunt … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged August Macke, Camille Pissarro, Claude Monet, Dottor Rantisi, Gershom Scholem, Giulio Meotti, Hannah Arendt, Hassan Nasrallah, Jamila Shanti, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Maurice Denis painter, Milgram experiment, Mosab Hassan Yousef, Mursi Egypt, Reuven Feuerstein, Theodor Adorno, Varlam Salamov, Zimbardo Stanford experiment | Leave a comment

ROUSSEAU & THE COUCH IN THE JUNGLE: Landscape of Hallucination

Posted on October 20, 2010 by Dave

It’s been said, oversimplistically but sympathetically, that “he didn’t know the rules well enough to break them”. But of course there are no rules in the kingdom of the imagination.He knew he was a babe in the woods of high … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Adrian Searle, Alfred Jarry, Andre Breton, Arsene Alexandre, August Macke, Christopher Green, Cornelia Stabenow, Douglas Cooper, Emil Nolde, Eugene Delacroix, Franz Roh, Gauguin, Guillaume Apollinaire, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Herbie Hancock, Herschel B. Chipp, Herschel Browning Chipp, Jean Cocteau, Jean Leon Gerome, Jill Fell, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Matisse, Michael Hoog, Montague Ullman, Odilon Redon, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Paul Klee, Pechstein, Robert Delaunay, Roger Shattuck, Seurat, Sigmund Freud, Signac, Virginia Chandler, Wassily Kandinsky, Wilhelm Uhde | Leave a comment

MAXED OUT ON DADA: AVOIDING THE DEGENERACY OF GAINFUL EMPLOYMENT

Posted on July 27, 2010 by Dave

”…it becomes obvious that Max Ernst’s brilliant accomplishment consisted of having developed a syntax by which the employment of this found material could be controlled. For all their independence from traditional artistic techniques and the imitation of nature, it is … Continue reading →