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Tag Archives: Edward Hopper
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…In his unusual paintings Carroll Cloar set down his memories, an admittance of sentiment, within the private world of childhood in the southern small town where he grew up. He presents images such as a prim ghost in gingham standing … Continue reading
eccentric patrons
By October 1942, Peggy Guggenheim was ready to open in New York a new gallery, Art of This Century, surely the most eccentric pleasure dome ever decreed for the inspection of art. Lights flashed on and off, with great rushes … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Alexander Calder, Anton Gill, Edward Hopper, Frank Lloyd Wright, Glynis Bell, Grant Wood, Jackson Pollock, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mark Rothko, Mary V. Dearborn, Max Ernst, Museum of Non-Objective Art, Peggy Guggenheim, Robert Motherwell, Solomon Guggenheim, Thomas Hart Benton
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cin-thesis
Articulations about suffering and pain without the destructive collateral damage of nihilism. Modern despair in a human way. A taking of Edward Hopper’s figures and putting them within the crowd of Baudelaire’s Paris, marching, crying, weeping, but maintaining a human … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Arthur Miller, Charles Baudelaire, Edward Hopper, franklin delano roosevelt memorial, George Segal, kent state shootings, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Duchamp, Meyer Schapiro, michael blackwood, Sigmund Freud, simmel, Walter Benjamin
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smuggle the uncomfortable
“The contradictory works of storied illustrator Norman Rockwell resonate in an age of anxiety”, or so the article began. Well enough anyway. But downhill from there. There is a process of historical revisionism underway that seeks to place Rockwell solidly … Continue reading
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Tagged Clement Greenberg, Cornelius Krieghoff, dave hickey, Edward Hopper, Ernest Hemingway, Frans Hals, Honore Daumier, James McNeil Whistler, James McNeill Whistler, Kate taylor, kate taylor globe and mail, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Norman Rockwell, Sigmund Freud, Slavoj Zizek
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down the amazon: art jungle
Aesthetics is a very complex issue. But is insolubly linked to economics, taste and design. More profoundly, are aesthetic considerations merely another marker, another sign of decadence. Donald Kuspit’s controversial article on the art market several years ago , written … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged alfred lessing, Andy Warhol, anselm kiefer, Arthur Koestler, Caravaggio, David Geffen, Donald Kuspit, Edward Hopper, Eric Fischl, Ernst Ludwig Kirschner, Francis Bacon, Grandma Moses, Gustav Klimt, henri eugene le sidaner, jeffrey deitch, martin gough, Meyer Schapiro, Norman Rockwell, Pablo Picasso, paul raffaele, Thorstein Veblen, timothy binkley, Warren Buffett
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dr. jekyll and mr. raw hyde leather
Tell me lies. Tell me sweet little lies. Dr. Jekyll faced some atrocious consequences when he let his dark side run savagely wild with a potion that transformed him into the animalistic Mr. Hyde. The extreme makeover aside, perhaps are … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Abraham Maslow, alfred adler, Alfred Hitchcock, Carl Jung, carl jung synchronicity, Edward Hopper, Francis Bacon, Joe O'Connor, Lucian Freud, rollo may, russell williams canada, sgt. paul wynn, Sigmund Freud, Somerset Maugham, stephen kinzey, vernon quinsey
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too many dicks: aye eyck
Most academic interpretations build upon an existing structure of debate.It could be called the common-law approach to artistic jurisprudence.It is based on the idea that future interpretations of various phenomena will be like the past, except more so. Once case … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged arnolfini marriage portrait, Clement Greenberg, Edward Hopper, elizabeth abbott, Erwin Panofsky, Franz Kafka, ian verstegen, Jan van Eyck, John Haber Art, Jonathan McIntosh, Linda Nochlin, Linda Seidel, Martin Buber, Meyer Schapiro, susan fromberg schaeffer
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