Tag Archives: Cubism

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

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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

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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

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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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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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CÉZANNE:ABOLISHING THE TYRANNY OF LINEAR PERSPECTIVE…. FOREVER

Catagorizing the style of Paul Cézanne’s( 1839-1906 )  artwork is problematic. As a young man he left his home in Provence in the south of France in order to join with the avant-garde in Paris. He fell in with the … Continue reading

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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

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Art As Rhetoric Prepared Medium Rare

Soutine once shocked his neighbours by hanging a side of beef in his garret so he could paint it. The carcass collected fleas, putrified , and this death on exhibition alarmed the tenants to bring the gendarmes to put an … Continue reading

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