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Tag Archives: Diego Velasquez
historic surprises
Unless we grasp that the historical process can always take men and their societies by surprise, we shall fail to understand our own immediate dangers, or indeed, our opportunities. Tides can suddenly break old barriers in a matter of hours … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Anne-Louis Girodet, Carlyn Beccia, Citizen Jean-Baptiste Belley, Diego Velasquez, Granville Sharp, Jean Leon Gerome, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Slave Market Liverpool, Slave Trade eighteenth century, Slave Trade nineteenth century
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hold your nose: flushing into a non-existant past
Excerpts from a brilliant article exposing the underside of what Adorno called the “cultural industries” and what Kuspit refers to as art as part of the industrial entertainment complex so drowned and subsumed by money values there is strictly form … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged ben vautier, Bertrand Russell, christopher caudwell, Damien Hirst, Diego Velasquez, Edouard Manet, gilbert and george, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Mike Kelley, Pablo Picasso, paul mccarthy art, Piero Manzoni, Theodor Adorno
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collapsing the geometric order
The search for emotional impact. Classicism and romanticism are only tenuously compatible. Like Cain and Abel, its a contrapuntal piece of music, that if played often enough, like Glenn Gould with Bach, can create some some odd exposures to the … Continue reading
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
play it again zorba: the crocodile cure
Its a bit ambivalent. Michael Lewis applying the screws to the Greek population. Fatuous moral righteousness with the cruel guile that only Ugly American can muster.A targeted assassination of an un-people. Not that descriptively the proof is in the pudding. … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged Angela Merkel, Caravaggio, Diego Velasquez, European Central Bank, Greek debt crisis, Honoré Fragonard, johann Baptist Kirner, Larissa porsche owners, Michael Lewis The Big Short, michael lewis vanity fair, Nicolas Poussin, Paul Krugman, Peter Paul Rubens, Pierre Vallieres, porsche cayenne greece, Sarkozy, THe Eurozone debt crisis
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grim tidings: disasters and masters of war
A preoccupation with mystery, violence and the irrational was always present in Goya’s art. As the years passed, casual observations of the foibles and horrors of the world were transfigured into a vision of life that came to dominate his … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous
Tagged Alan Woods, Diego Velasquez, Edouard Manet, Eugene Delacroix, Francisco Goya, Goya, Graeme Mitchell, Kendall L. Walton, Kenneth Clark, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Matthew Brady, Meissonier, Nicolas Poussin, Pablo Picasso, Trevor Malkinson
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Los caprichos: a wasteland of reason
But if Francisco Goya saw vice, corruption and foolishness in high places, Goya, unlike many of his contemporaries in France and England , did not discover a compensatory nobility in the common man. In fact, the contrary. His first great … Continue reading
viscious frailties at the most extreme
At the Spanish court, Goya was advantageously placed to observe vicious frailties at their most extreme. At the time that he became Painter of the Household, Charles IV had just succeeded to the throne in place of an elder brother … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous
Tagged Alan Woods, Ann Coulter, Diego Velasquez, Donald Kuspit, E.H. Gombrich, Francisco Goya, Goya, Goya Los Caprichos, Goya Naked Maja, Jerry Vines, Kenneth Clark, Mel Brooks, Otto Dix, Robert Hughes, The Duchess of Alba, Voltaire
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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
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous
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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