Tag Archives: Ben Shahn

visual language: academia and the derisive sniff

Posted on April 8, 2011 by Art

Back to the complex visual language of graphic design.If academics spent more time scrounging in junk stores…. Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com) : I spend a lot of time digging around in bins of garbage. i love it. I love going to … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Andy Warhol, art chantry, Ben Shahn, david stone martin, ed fotheringham, francis wolf, graphic design, kenny rogers, raymond chandler, reid miles, Richard M. Powers, von dutch | 1 Comment

man with the golden eye

Posted on March 20, 2011 by Dave

Another brilliant article by Art Chantry. This one on CBS and William Golden and Art touches on some social-psychological angles to mass media culture that defined much of the pre-boomer generation: by ART CHANTRY (http://www.artchantry.com/) corporate history books are great … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Andy Warhol, art chantry, Ben Shahn, Cipe Pineles, graphic illustration, lou dorfsman, New York Art Directors Club, reagan era, Rene Magritte, william golden | Leave a comment

East of eden: most likely to secede

Posted on February 11, 2011 by Dave

the recent death of Jack Levine, at 95 years old, serves as a reminder that the artistic currents and social issues that confronted him and his contemporaries are illuminating in their reflection of our present condition. It was an era … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Andrew Wyeth, Ashcan School, Ben Shahn, Chaim Soutine, Georges Rouault, Jack Levine, Philip Evergood, Piet Mondrian, Thomas Eakins, Vincent Van Gogh, W.I. Homer, willem de Kooning, Winslow Homer | Leave a comment

ceremonies of innocence: zesty improvised lives

Posted on January 27, 2011 by Dave

The more things change, the more they stay the same? Before Helen Levitt and James Agee worked together on the documentary “The Quiet One” , they had planned to collaborate on a book of photographs and text. Levitt took the … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Ben Shahn, Dennis Dunleavy, Friedrich Nietzsche, Helen Levitt, Helen Levitt photography, Henri Cartier-Bresson, James Agee, Janice Loeb, Jill Marsden, Luis Bunuel | Leave a comment

CONSIGNED TO OBLIVION

Posted on December 29, 2009 by Dave

Art in Limbo. Like lost packages at the post office without a return address. Metaphorically, on the bottom of the ocean in Davy Jones locker. Painters without a name, art without a number. Every generation of art has its casualties … Continue reading →