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Tag Archives: Dr. Steven Zucker
every good work of art is a kind of joke
“No , the French spirit will never live in this German larva, in this beer-filled thing which is at the Salon.” wrote a rival sculptor in the “Revue de Monde Catholique”. Others dubbed Rodin “the Michelangelo of the goiter”. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Elsen, Auguste Rodin, Diego Rivera, Dr. Beth Harris, Dr. Steven Zucker, Emile Zola, Honore de Balzac, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Michelangelo Moses, Otto Rank, Pablo Picasso, Sigmund Freud
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PICASSO & ANXIETY IN 3D: Me, Myself and Aye Yay
Did Picasso show the hollowness of the everyday objects in his world because he disbelieved them, even as he acknowledged their existence? Although Picasso’s “Demoiselles D’Avignon” is clearly about Picasso’s own desire it is also an expression of his fear?, … Continue reading
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Tagged Donald Kuspit, Dr. Beth Harris, Dr. Steven Zucker, Ernst Cassirer, Gertrude Stein, Guillaume Apollinaire, Leo Steinberg, Marquis de Sade, Max Kosloff, Michelle Leight, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Pete Hamill, Susan Sontag, Suzanne Langer, William Rubin
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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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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
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CONFUSION SAYS: Matisse and the Passion of Constant Motion
His whole career, said Matisse, could be thought of as a progress toward clarity and simplification: “A constant struggle for complete expression with a minimum of elements. ” Actually, his career had many meanings, as any great artist’s must, but … Continue reading
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Tagged Dr. Beth Harris, Dr. Steven Zucker, Fernand Leger, Georges Braque, Georges Rouault, Henri Matisse, Hilary Spurling, Hilton Kramer, jack Flam, Joan Miro, John Elderfield, Leonide Massine, Pablo Picasso, Piet Mondrian, Riva Castleman, Stephane Mallarme
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PICASSO, Visual Violence and the Unbinding of Desire: JUST BECAUSE
After the first World War, Andre Breton came to Picasso’s studio….. saw Les Demoiselles d’Avignon and recognised it as the definitive modern masterpiece. Breton, the leader of the surrealists, saw in it a painting about the revolutionary menace of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Breton, Arthur Rimbaud, Charles Baudelaire, Donald Kuspit, Dr. Beth Harris, Dr. Steven Zucker, El Greco, Felix Feneon, Gertrude Stein, Henri Matisse, Ingres, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Leo Stein, Leo Steinberg, Marcel Duchamp, Michael Kirby, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Paul Verlaine, Sigmund Freud, Stephane Mallarme, Titian, Tony Grillo
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PICASSO : Distortion and Ruthless attack on GOOD TASTE
Was it just new forms for old feelings? Are new feelings even possible? And were not these forms somehow recycled and repackaged from pre-Christian era civilizations? In any event, the innovations of modern art cannot be explained adequately on formal … Continue reading
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Tagged Christopher Green, Clement Greenberg, Donald Kuspit, Dr. Beth Harris, Dr. Steven Zucker, Georges Braque, Gertrude Stein, Henri Matisse, Hilary Spurling, Jacques Emile Blanche, John Canaday, John Golding, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Leo Steinberg, Michelle Leight, Pablo Picasso, Patricia Leighton, Paul Cezanne, Pete Hamill, Robert Luongo, Roger Fry, Tamar Garb, Van Gogh
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GUILTY and SATISFIED: Just Above Paradise
Within a single generation early in the fifteenth century, three Flemish artists gave final, consummate expression to the Gothic spirit. … There was a fascination with the world for its own sake , as a visual phenomenon, that was allied … Continue reading
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Tagged Annette Labedzki, Craig Harbison, Dr. Beth Harris, Dr. Steven Zucker, Edwin Hall, Erwin Panofsky, Flemish painting, Hubert van Eyck, Irwin Panofsky, James Snyder, Jan van Eyck, Kim Woods, Laura Gelfand, Linda Seidel, Northern Renaissance Art, Pacht, Patrick Bernauw, Peter Voorn, Peter Vroom, Renaissance Art, Robert Campin, Susan Jones Caldwell College, suzie nash, The Lost Dutchman
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PASSION & ELEGANCE: Uneasy Companions
The work of Jan van Eyck, with its balanced, reserved, and dignified realism. is usually considered the summary expression of Flemish genius. His complete Flemishness, along with his unapproachable technical perfection, may explain why his art was less easily assimilated … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Graham Dixon, Annette Labedzki, Arnofini van eyck, Craig Harbison, Dale Kent, Dr. Beth Harris, Dr. Stephen Zucker, Dr. Steven Zucker, Drogin, Edwin Hall, Erwin Panofsky, Jan van Eyck, Linda Seidel, Master of Flémalle, Patrick Bernauw, Peter Voorn, Robert Campin, Rogier van der Weyden, Thomas a Kempis, Vermeer, William P. Coleman
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AN ANGEL IN BROAD DAYLIGHT: Elegance Before Passion
Within a single generation early in the fifteenth century, three Flemish artists gave final, consummate expression to the Gothic spirit. … For anyone trying to tell the history of art as a continuous development , the fifteenth century always appears … Continue reading
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Tagged Battle of Agincourt, Donatello Sculpture, Dr. Beth Harris, Dr. Stephen Zucker, Dr. Steven Zucker, Filippo Brunelleschi, Flemish Art, Jan van Eyck, Masaccio, Master of Flémalle, Northern Renaissance Art, Northern Renaissance Painting, Philip the Good, Robert Campin, Rogier van der Weyden
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