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meninas: sweeping out our house
Same shit. Different day.The tragic waltz of nihilism to achieve a kind of purification, a kind of radical immanence. Kitschified and recyclable. It sells. The grotesque arranged for esthetic profit. Artistically, it reflects the love hate relationship with the modern … Continue reading
first clever then banal: empty magic
The nihilistic hollowness of Baldessari; the emotional and intellectual vacuum at its core. The implied sadism and hatred of humanity.Is this a kind of messianic art , one that allows for an inverse association between what is profane and the … Continue reading
the committments
Modernism in art had the tendency to idealize form at the expense of the human and communal. What of those who resisted? Do what extent can a respect for the human experience give an aesthetic strength to resist submerging itself … Continue reading
MATISSE: Line Dance With Color
Matisse emerged from WWII with a reputation among living painters second only to that of Picasso. The fresh interest in Matisse was stimulated by a late flowering in many phases of his art- drawings, book designs, and oil paintings- which … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Breton, Anton Ehrenzweig, Carol Duncan, Clement Greenberg, Cubism, D.W. Winnicott, Donald Kuspit, Dr. Beth Harris, Dr. Steven Zucker, Fauvism, Henri Matisse, Hilton Kramer, jack Flam, Jackson Pollock, Jennifer Sachs Samet, John Elderfield, Laura McPhee, Leo Steinberg, Louis Aragon, Maurice de Vlaminck, Michelle Leight, Oscar Wilde, Pablo Picasso, Riva Castleman, Wassily Kandinsky
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RUNNING WITH LIONS:The Enigma of “The Idiot”
For all of them Henri Rousseau was the “venerable child” of art, the great primitive who lived and worked beyond the reach of damaging speculation and sophistication, at one with himself, original, as nature had made him. Conscious, deliberate action … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Jarry, Allen Ginsberg, Andre Malraux, Andre Salmon, Cornelia Stabenow, Cubism, Dostoevski, Edgar Degas, Fernando Botero, Franz Marc, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Giorgio de Chirico, Guillaume Apollinaire, Henri Rousseau, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Max Beckman, Max Beckmann, Odilon Redon, Pablo Picasso, Paul Gauguin, Puvis de Chavannes, Robert Delaunay, Roger Shattuck, Wassily Kandinsky, Wilhelm Uhde
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MIRROR MIRROR ON THE EASEL
who is the fairest painter since Medieval?.” I’m maybe not as good as Raphael”, he once conceded, ”but there is more tension in my canvases”. One of the greatest admirers of his own haunting portraits was the eccentric Russian called … Continue reading