Tag Archives: Clement Greenberg

main street: direct appeal to the senses

Period pieces. Toby Tyler, circa 1890 and chockablock with tried and tested cliches which work pretty well, even by today’s standards. Toby Tyler, an orphan, and Disney is really the patron saint of orphans, who lives with a crosspatch uncle … Continue reading

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muse and the economy

Or is it the economy and the muse? When individuals are fighting tooth and nail for a living, they look on the arts as a thing apart. Has our affluent society today carried over some of this disdain into a … Continue reading

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unsparing visions of excess

Viridiana, a ferocious imagery that startled movie-goers at its time. The Left ethos that encapsulated everything from Le Chien Andalou ( 1929) , The Young One,The Damned, Stranger in the Room, The Roots, etc. Like Bergman and Fellini this was … Continue reading

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palace intrigue: little castle on the prairie

The court artists who were called upon to depict so august and all-powerful a personage as a sultanĀ  were faced with a challenging task. The represented the sultan larger than those around him, their rich robes expansively filling out the … Continue reading

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lost highway: back to the city of the patriarchs

The self-hater. it has nothing to do with Gunter Grass’s stupid poem. His meta argument that its not the state its the government, is hoary socialist cant from the left; a socialist attacking Zionism is a family squabble at best. … Continue reading

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revolutionary bluff: pseudo event and image object

It began with Marcel Duchamp. From there it was down the slippery slope to theĀ  avant-gardizing and idealizing of the commodity as a form of esthetic entertainment. The inevitable evolution of market economics to recycle the commodity into various conceptual … Continue reading

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walking on old stones: no stone unturned

Ziononism is racism. Not really. If anything its a form of self-hatred that denies any element of the spiritual within the individual. Like the art critic Clement Greenberg, who acknowledged his own Jewish self hatred and said the spiritual in … Continue reading

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picasso comet

The effect of the rise of esteem in the earlier periods of Picasso automatically put a grip on the reception of the later ones as they came off the easel. Since the end of WWII every freshly painted Picasso was … Continue reading

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periods and public

The Picasso industry. From 1895 to 1944 alone there were a total of 6,751 works of which half were drawings.By the early 1960’s when he was still churning out pieces, there was an additional three to four thousand plus over … Continue reading

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kitschy-goo

This is a great quote from art critic Donald Kuspit. Kuspit is something of a traditionalist; or rather looking for the old sense of spirituality and insight into human nature to be found in art, a kind of sane dignity … Continue reading

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