Tag Archives: Constantin brancusi

the long and winding ramp

Posted on April 20, 2012 by Dave

War on the fine arts. Frank Lloyd Wright definitely had a chip on his shoulder and it manifested itself on a war on the fine arts. He began as a foe of the academicism, orthodox teachings, and this later festered … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Constantin brancusi, ezra stoller, ezra stoller photography, Frank Lloyd Wright, frank lloyd wright guggenheim, Guggenheim Museum, Joan Miro, Lewis Mumford, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Michelangelo, Tino Sehgal, Wassily Kandinsky | Leave a comment

witkin: aesthetic priest last rites

Posted on November 30, 2011 by Dave

Sprinkle a bit of holy water. throw some ash over he shoulder and maybe keep a little pepper spray in the frock. A tragic morbidity that seems to romanticize violence even as it masquerades ostensibly as a critique, maybe a … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Andres Serrano, Auguste Rodin, charles mann, Constantin brancusi, Donald Kuspit, hal fischer, irina ionesco, Jed Perl, jeffrey silverthorne, joel-peter witkin, John Haber, Marcel Duchamp, Sigmund Freud, stanley b. burns, wayne owens | Leave a comment

la boheme : mannered art without manners

Posted on June 15, 2011 by Dave

Amedeo Modigliani. A minor modernist? ” All that was divine in Modigliani sparkled through a sort of gloom ” It is one of those only the good die young stories, terminating at the premature age of thirty-five. There was no … Continue reading →