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the undraped: Of anecdotal interest
There are few styles in art that fell so far into disrepute as the once prized academic art of the nineteenth-century. As awful as much of it was, there are still grounds for some of it to be redeemable and … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Alexandre Cabanel, Cabanel Birth of Venus, Edouard Manet, edouard manet olympia, Emperor Napoleon III, French Salon Art, John Wolfe banker, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Rosa Bonheur, Sarah Bernhardt, Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, Sir Edwin Landseer
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under cover stock options
The premise of the show, Under Cover Boss was in the vein of Reality television, low cost programming that would convey a sense of authenticity and distill a sense of community of interests between those on the bottom of the … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged Edouard Manet, edouard manet olympia, Larry O'Donnell WMI, Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso, Pablo Picasso Demoiselles D'Avignon, reality television, Theodor Adorno, Thorstein Veblen, Undercover Boss CBS, Waste Management Company, William Burroughs
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mean memes
Not crazy about Stephen Harper. Plodding, industrial age mentality that will pay the piper if the commodities rally, if and when collapses. Though to be fair, conservatism in Canada is equivalent to Obama; the same budget busting and expansive approach … Continue reading
visiting the ladies
What seems real is in fact an illusion created by one’s own desire. It was a perceptive insight, one that would go onto helping define the modern age, the mediation of our lives by images, our relationship with consumerism and … Continue reading
correctional devices
Truth at the margins. Playing with trauma and variations on holding the traumatic moment. There is an uneasy relationship with popular culture, kitsch, and an underlying current of fascism. As Adorno said, “The encouragement of kitsch is merely another of … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Charlie Chaplin, Clement Greenberg, edouard manet olympia, Hans Jurgen Syberberg, Ilya Repin, kazimierz switon, Pablo Picasso, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, saul friedlander, Susan Sontag, Theodor Adorno, Wagner Lohengrin, Walter Benjamin, zbigniew libera
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absurdities: the masculine warrior figure
Vanity is usually pretty revolting. An auto-glorification. narcissism. But as a minor saving grace, it can aspire to a certain honesty. But, for some reason, the relationship between vanity and worshiping money remains an enduring legacy, as if the power … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Cindy Sherman, edouard manet olympia, Ernst Junger, Filippo Marinetti, Hans Bellmer, hermann broch, italian futurism, John Updike, lucio fontana, Max Ernst, Otto Weininger, Piero Manzoni, richard kazis, robert stoller, Umberto Boccioni, Viktor Frankl, Walter Benjamin
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client and customer: freebies on the family
Olympia is one of the most famous paintings, one that could say marked the iconic launch of the modern era in art. The background to the work may be seen in Charles Baudelaire’s the Flowers of Evil, a very pessimistic … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Alice Miller, Boris Cyrulnik, Edouard Manet, edouard manet olympia, Germaine Greer, Gustave Caillebotte, janine Chasseguet-Smirgel, John Sloan, Marquis de Sade, Sigmund Freud, suzanne vega, suzanne vega luka, Viktor Frankl, Walter Benjamin
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