Tag Archives: David Teniers

what goes around

Drones are certainly here; this kind of soft-ware based warfare of which the FLAME virus and Stuxnet were also manifestations of this information age off-shoot where industrial age economics is displaced to a backseat in favor of digital technologies and … Continue reading

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kick sand in their faces

Synthetic credit. Trading a black box. Small is beautiful? Hardly when it comes to banking. In light of JP Morgan’s announced “surprise $2Billion profit bust; soaked and also synthetic red ink, people are naturally worried about contagion and another bank … Continue reading

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every grain of sand

Picasso called his painting, “the sum of destructions”, Marcel Duchamp went further into conceptual form with the ready-made, banal objects such as urinals converted into works of art. This was the so called “shock of the new” the beginning of … Continue reading

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happiness is a warm bun

Utopias have been around since The Fall, animating messianic visions of going back to the garden. There seems to be a seat-seated urge to look back and be captured by the past to borrow the Satchel Paige quote; to go … Continue reading

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perilous exile to zimzum

An inherently tormented and anguished Yahweh in a contradictory and self-absorbed rage over a broken creation. Is it a blasphemous, unhinged, theologically devoid and guilty of moral turpitude theory has our religious experience been as uncanny, intense and extreme as … Continue reading

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homer: arcadia americana

It’s art that arrives at its destination from the outside and then pays attention to observation. Homer is part of the strong figurative tradition in American art, and although appropriated as a popular stereotype it reaches back to older, quite … Continue reading

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gray: the rational color of cash

The melting down, in the cold grey mornings of late Fall and early winter: society, religion and feeling. Ultimately one’s own sanity. Is there anywhere to run in the cover of shrinking daylight that is safe, a refuge from personal … Continue reading

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the poussin code

Giza pyramid pentagrams and sacred geometry, golden means and a whole shebang of inscrutability. Nicolas Poussin has always been linked with the mystery of Rennes de Chateau and his work is crucial to the theory found in Holy Blood Holy … Continue reading

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captains & kids: arcadia behind a honkey chateau

It could be called songs of self understanding. A balancing on the tipping point between discarding self-knowledge after a painful struggle, and the equal impulse to keep pressing on. There is a blurry boundary between a self-reflection worth sharing and … Continue reading

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ACROSS THE UNIVERSE: PSYCHIC INTENSITY OF THE COSMIC OPERA

The earliest reference to Giorgione indicates that he was commissioned to paint frescoes in the Fondaco dei Tedeschi (“Guildhouse of the German Merchants”) in Venice in 1508 and that he was aided in this undertaking by the young Titian. Vasari, … Continue reading

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