Tag Archives: D.W. Winnicott

getting no satisfaction: a hollow world going wrong

Posted on September 19, 2011 by Dave

Desire and Disillusion. That technical progress with its transformational capacity could finish by alienating the individual giving rise to consumerism fueled by invidious comparison and a spirit of competition which would appropriate Darwininian contexts to establish political, social and hegemonic … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Carl von Clausewitz, charles hinton, Clement Greenberg, D.W. Winnicott, darwinism, Donald Kuspit, Edouard Manet, Henri Matisse, john dewey, joseph heath, Karl Marx, Martin Buber, Michel Foucault, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, picasso blue period, richard kazis, Sigmund Freud, Thorstein Veblen, Wassily Kandinsky | Leave a comment

first clever then banal: empty magic

Posted on August 24, 2011 by Dave

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 →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Alberto Giacometti, Cubism, D.W. Winnicott, Donald Kuspit, edward o. wilson, John Baldessari, jose ortega y gasset, Marcel Duchamp, Robert Rauschenberg, Salvador dali, warhol pop art | Leave a comment

freudian slide into nihilism

Posted on August 18, 2011 by Dave

Maybe the problem is a mimicry of art historical forms without connecting to the poetic myths that animated and gave life to these forms. That is, the aura of the profound is a falsification in that the depth of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Auguste Rodin, Charles Baudelaire, D.W. Winnicott, Diego Rivera, Francis Bacon, Frans Hals, Jacob Epstein, Jonathan Jones Guardian, kitty garman, Lucian Freud, Martin Gayford, Michelangelo, Pablo Picasso, Rembrandt, Robert Hughes, Sigmund Freud, Sir Kenneth Clark, spruiell, Vincent Van Gogh, william grimes | Leave a comment

fame suckers

Posted on August 3, 2011 by Dave

The following are some quotes from a Donald Kuspit article that seems an apt critique of much of popular culture in general. Kuspit is really an important voice in art criticism since his views on art and culture are situated … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft, Uncategorized | Tagged Adrian Searle, Andy Warhol, D.W. Winnicott, Donald Kuspit, elizabeth peyton, Elizabeth Taylor, Frida Kahlo, Keith Richards, Kurt Cobain, Oscar Wilde, portrait of dorian gray | Leave a comment

MATISSE: Line Dance With Color

Posted on December 30, 2010 by Dave

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 →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | 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 | Leave a comment

JANE AUSTEN: SMALL WORLDS & STRONG PASSIONS

Posted on October 26, 2010 by Dave

The desires of Jane Austen were large and complicated. At the social level, she wanted liberty to state views, no matter whom she offended as well as exposing the orthodoxies of her time.She chose her enemies with care and analyzed … Continue reading →