Tag Archives: Chagall

daddy: visionary times of memory

Posted on March 19, 2011 by Dave

How do you deal with negative recurring themes through your life that end up instilling a deep pessimism? As a woman about choosing a spouse who holds the same detested personality traits as a disliked father.Take Sylvia Plath:” Trying to … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Chagall, Giorgio de Chirico, Guernica Picasso, Jacques Derrida, Klee, Otto Plath, Paul Klee, Picasso, sylvia plath, Ted Hughes, Ted Hughes Sylvia Plath | 4 Comments

a tangible mansion in the imagination: knock before entering

Posted on February 21, 2011 by Dave

Architecture has long had deep roots in the imagination. Creating fantastical structures, magnificent dwellings, and phantom cities , painters have always been drawn to erecting a dream architecture of the improbable and often psychologically revealing buildings. Certainly, architecture and psychoanalysis … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Carl Jung, Chagall, Friedrich Nietzsche, Giorgio de Chirico, Jeremy Blake, Kay Sage, M.C. Escher, Mies van der Rohe, Nikolaus Peysner, Philip Johnson, Rene Magritte, Sigmund Freud, Thomas Cole, Thomas Cole art, Walter Gropius, Wilhelm Pinder, Yves Tanguay | Leave a comment

AUTHENTICITY AND AESTHETICS

Posted on March 1, 2010 by Dave

Snobbery has its own aesthetics. If a work of art seems identical to the naked eye, why should an original Picasso end up in the living room, a reproduction on the stairway and a forgery in the recycle bin? In … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Abraham Bredius, Adenauer, Annibile Carraci, Art Forgery, Art Fraud, Barbara Kay, Chagall, Charlie Chaplin, Damien Hirst, Dietrich Fey, Fogg Museum, Han Van Meegeren, Holbein, James Macpherson, Lord Nelson, Lothar Malskat, Picasso, Rembrandt, Toulouse-Lautrec, Vermeer | Leave a comment

IMPRESSIONS ABANDONING TO THE LIGHT

Posted on February 2, 2010 by Dave

In the countryside of northern France he made a garden. And there, Claude Monet, as he grew old and his eyesight failed him, perceived and painted sunlight and water, trees and flowers, as no one ever had before. He literally … Continue reading →