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new frontier
The modern sense of the human being. The eternal sense of the individual condition as essentially one of individual conflict and torment, caught in some nasty crosswinds between building and demolition- often simultaneously- the regression and enlightened, the hysterical and … Continue reading
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Tagged Alberto Giacometti, Auguste Blanqui, Charles Baudelaire, Claude Monet, Clement Greenberg, David Sylvester, Donald Kuspit, Franz Kafka, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gustav Landauer, Jackson Pollock, Jean Genet, Jean Paul Sartre, Jerry Saltz, Martin Buber, richard hamilton pop art, Richard Huelsenbeck, Surrealism
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3 rd of may: shoot in may and go away
Like all great historical and philosophical themes, analyzing the Third of May is somewhat vulnerable to some superficial and not necessarily valid interpretations. The originality of Goya’s treatment in his depiction of the executioners. Where they might expectedly have be … Continue reading
an enemy of irrational tendencies
Goya’s life was split in two near its midpoint by an illness that very nearly killed him when he was forty-six years old. If he had died, he would have left a large body of work establishing him as one … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Woods, Andrew Martin Goya, David Sylvester, Diego Velasquez, E.H. Gombrich, Francisco Bayeu, Francisco Goya, Kendall L. Walton, Kenneth Clark, Milos Forman, Muriel Julius, Natalie Portman, Robert Hughes, The Duchess of Alba
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revolutionary for reason: consciousness of a tragic humanity
Horror. The world one usually associates with the work of Goya. Even in his brilliant early years as a court painter, an air of evil hung suspiciously in the background of his rococo paintings. Then, after his illness, they lept … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Woods, Andrew Martin Goya, Dante Alighieri, David Sylvester, Diego Velasquez, E.H. Gombrich, Edouard Manet, Eugene Delacroix, Francisco Goya, Goya, goya Black paintings, Goya's Ghosts, Kenneth Clark, Michel Serres, Natalie Portman, Robert Hughes, Theophile Gautier
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THE FUSSY BACHELOR: “BRILLIANT CONTROL” IN THE CONTEXT OF HYSTERIA
“In his The True Value of Oppositions in Life and Art and elsewhere Mondrian argued in favour of trying to reconcile a series of binary oppositions such as good and evil through painting: generally in life we readily perceive oppositions as particular forms, … Continue reading
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Tagged Aaron H. Esman, Aniela Jaffe, Daniel H. Caldwell, David Sylvester, Dee Reynolds, Dr. Beth Harris, Dr. Stephen Zucker, Dr. Steven Zucker, Fred Jameson, Gary Kennard, Harry Holtzman, Harry Holzman, Helena Blavatsky, Holzman, James W. Hamilton, Josephine Baker, Justin Wintle, K. Paul Johnson, Ken Gewertz, Lee Penn, Meyer Schapiro, Phyllis Greenacre, Piet Mondrian, R.E. Kantor, Robert Hughes, Roy Goodman, Stephen R.C. Hicks, Theo Van Doesburg, Virginia Hanson
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ECSTASY OF GEOMETRY: READING BETWEEN THE LINES
What was the nature of the quest that moved the Dutch painter Piet Mondrian (1872–1944) to abandon the representation of nature in favor of an art of pure abstraction? What, exactly, did Mondrian believe that he had achieved? In any … Continue reading
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Tagged Aaron S. Esman, Alexander Calder, Amelia Jones, Aniela Jaffe, Blavatsky, Brancusi, Charcot, Daniel H. Caldwell, David Sylvester, Dee Reynolds, Dr. Beth Harris, Dr. Stephen Zucker, Dr. Steven Zucker, Elizabeth Truswell, Fred Jameson, Gary Kennard, Hans J. Kleinschmidt, hans L.C. Jaffa, Harry Cooper, Helene Petrovna Blavatsky, J.J. Sweeney, James W. Hamilton, Justin Wintle, K. Paul Johnson, Kasimir Malevich, Ken Gewertz, Lee Penn, M.H.J Schoenmaekers, Mallarme, Meyer Schapiro, Mick Haggerty, Neil A. Dodgson, Nelly Van Doesburg, Parker Tyler, Phyllis Greenacre, Piet Mondrian, R.E. Kantor, Robert Hughes, Ron Spronk, Rudolf Steiner, Stephen Hicks, Stephen R.C. Hicks, Theo Van Doesburg, Truswell, Virginia Hanson, Wallace Stevens, Wassily Kandinsky, willem de Kooning, Yves-Alain Bois
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STRANGE HABITS OF VISUAL NEURONS
During the 20th century many different art forms and movements came to life. The Dutch painter, Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) was a pioneer in the development of abstraction one of the most important art movement of the times. His works from … Continue reading
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Tagged A. Michael Noll, Abstract Art, Chris Horner, David H. Hubel, David Levy, David Sylvester, Elizabeth Truswell, Fred Jameson, Gary Kennard, Georges Braque, Harry Cooper, Jonah Lehrer, Kazimir Malevich, Meyer Schapiro, Neil A. Dodgson, Pablo Picasso, Pascal Mamassian, Piet Mondrian, Plastic Art, Pure Plastic Art, Ramachandran, S. Zeki, Stephen Hicks, Stephen R.C. Hicks, Theo Van Doesburg, Timothy C. Baker, Torsten N. Wiesel, William Hirstein, William P. Seely
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