Tag Archives: Edvard Munch

eye of the tyger

William Blake saw heaven in a speck of dust. Toying on the brink of madness, he always seemed to stop just short of leaping off the cliff, of sacrificing himself to some form of wish fulfilling fantasy. An enigma of … Continue reading

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degenerate art : fear of the everyday hucksters

Signs of pretense. Pretend art where the sentiments are an elaborate fake far removed from genuine emotion. Something like what Freud called the joke in art in his study of Michelangelo’s Moses but now on a grand, industrial scale of … Continue reading

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gotta serve somebody

However different the society’s they pictured, both Otto Dix and Toulouse Lautrec represented a society in which the proletariat underclass or the under-underclass served the bourgeois upper echelons.  And, war and sex, in the sense of romantic realism were seen … Continue reading

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strindberg & the painting of chance

August Strindberg was mainly known as a writer, but he was also a radical painter for his time. He viewed the landscape of his native Sweden as a reflection and metaphor for his own churning emotions and his diverse compositions … Continue reading

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MATISSE & THE VIOLENCE OF COLOR: Painting Safari

The first “event” in twentieth century  art took place in Paris, regarded as the cultural capital of Western civilization, in 1905.  This exhibition showed the influence of nineteenth century developments of colour and distorted line from artists such as Van Gogh and Gauguin. … Continue reading

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BOUND FOR GLORY?: TALKING ABOUT BAGISM, SHAGISM, DRAGISM…

” Jean Renoir’s Grand Illusion throws many people for a loop the first time they see it. Its reputation as one of the great works of cinema leads them to expect an eye-popper like Citizen Kane, or a work such … Continue reading

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THOSE MODERN FEELINGS: ITS A MATTER OF PLUMBING

“It must be realized that what these artists, Jean Arp, Kandinsky, Klee, Mondrian etc., were concerned with was something far greater than a problem of form and distinction between “concrete” and abstract,” figurative and non-figurative. Their goal was the center … Continue reading

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THE ENIGMA OF THOSE RIGHT-LEFT REVERSALS

Does the right hand know what the left hand is doing? ”The reason for the paradox is that the left hand’s way of knowing things is different from the right hand’s way of knowing. The difference can be discerned in … Continue reading

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MARCUSE HOT & STICKY: EM-BODY THE BODY POLITIC

“All Verbs: ream, spin, veer, span, cross, ram, peel, charge, pitch, verge, switch, shoot, slide, cram, goad, clash, cleave, fetch, clamp, lean, swap, butt, crook, split, jut, hack, break, stroke, stop.“ — Lozano notebook page dated 1964/67. Sex and Drugs and … Continue reading

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BALLAD OF THE EASY WRITERS

“A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to Die”. Franz Kafka Diaries ”Still, some of the little details and correspondences are striking. George Steiner, who, as we’ll see, believes in some metaphysical sense that Kafka invented … Continue reading

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