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Tag Archives: Egon Schiele
the color blue: hands-on experience
There is almost a synonymous relationship between modern art and various degrees of eroticism extending to the outright perverse, which was implicit from Manet and Picasso and remains a significant, even vital component in its post-modern manifestations straddling the blurred … Continue reading
when the grass is too long…
The chief import of Gunter Grass’s The Tin Drum is neither nationalist satire nor the torment of lost identity. It is misanthropy, hated, the wish to shock and nauseate the reader. The book is full of cruelty; witnessed by Oscar, … Continue reading
steal, conceal, & no deal : Blood Canvas
The theft of Art from occupied and conquered countries by the Nazis has been well-documented, and the complex legal issues in the recovery of stolen art, and legal title continues to be an emotional and divisive issue that touches more … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Albrecht Durer, Anthony F. Anderson, Auguste Renoir, Bess Hormats, Claude Manet, Colin Woodward, Edouard Manet, Edward Elicofon, Egon Schiele, Francisco Goya, Greg Bradshaw, Harry Gursky, Leo Tolstoy, Lynn Nicholas, Marc Chagall, Matilda Battersby, Pablo Picasso, Paul Gauguin, Paul Hirschkorn, Priam's Treasure of Ancient Troy, Rembrandt, Richard B. Jackson, Rob Cameron, Robert E. Lester, Robert M. Edsel, Toledo Museum of Art, Wassily Kandinsky
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SILENCE FILLED WITH VIVID NOISELESS BOYS
After graduation and on the eve of his embarkation for France as a “gentleman volunteer” ambulance driver,John Dos Passos’s letters almost exploded with rebellion. “I have been spending my time of late going to pacifist meetings and being dispersed by … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Seeger, Archibald MacLeish, Charles Nordhoff, Daniel Aaron, E.E. Cummings, Egon Schiele, Eric Kennington, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, John Dos Passos, John Reed, John Steinbeck, Malcolm Cowley, Max Beckman, Max Beckmann, Nathan Asch, Otto Dix, Richard Norton, Robert Service, Sandra Gilbert, T.S. Eliot, Thomas Wolf, Thornton Wilder
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VIENNA & MISGUIDED GENIUS: Ambiguous Dreams and Joyful Apocalypse
Although scholars agreed that Vienna was not the only place where Modernism achieved sweeping successes, it was still common practice to regard “Vienna as the focal point of European Modernism” . Scholars consider that European Modernism reached its purest and most concentrated expression in Vienna … Continue reading
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Tagged Arnold Schoenberg, Arthur Schnitzler, Bruno Walter, Donald Kuspit, E.H. Gombrich, Egon Schiele, Elfriede Jelinek, Franz Kafka, Gustav Klimt, Gustav Mahler, H.L. Mencken, Hermann Bahr, Hermann Kurzke, Mahler, Max Nordau, Nina Hagen, Oskar Kokoschka, Otto Weininger, Peter Altenberg, Rudolf Steiner, Sigmund Freud, The Good Soldier Schweik, Thomas Mann
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GOODNIGHT VIENNA: Vagabonds Exiled to a Dark Void
Early twentieth-century Viennese modernity, obsessed with identity in crisis, was especially preoccupied with the play between external appearances and internal dimensions of the self. How could it not? No doubt, all roads eventually lead to Freud as part of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Adolf Loos, Alfred Kubin, Alma Mahler, Angela Dilkey, Donald Kuspit, E.H. Gombrich, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Edgar Allan Poe, Egon Schiele, Emil Brix, Ernst Gombrich, Georges Braque, Gustav Klimt, Gustav Mahler, Karl Lueger Vienna mayor, Karl Popper, Oskar Kokoschka, Pablo Picasso, Robert S. Wistrich
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BONNARD & LIBERATED FROM GRAVITY: ENDLESS SUMMER
The intense freshness of “the first moving instant vision” provoked by an object. But actually to copy that object increased the distance from that vision. There is always the danger,Pierre Bonnard felt, of the artist’s becoming caught by the incidentals … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Derain, Anna Hammond, Carter B. Horseley, Cornelia Lauf, Daniel Richter, Dita Amory, Dr. Francis V. O'Connor, Edgar Degas, Egon Schiele, Fauvism, Francis Bacon, Glenn D. Lowry, Graham Nickson, Greg Lindquist, Henri Matisse, Henry James, jack Flam, John Elderfield, Karen Wilkin, Maurice Denis, Nicholas Serota, Paul Cezanne, Peter Doig, Pierre Bonnard, Rembrandt, Ron Milewicz, Rothko, Ryan McGinness, Sarah Whitfield, Svetlana Alpers, Tony Thomas, Van Gogh
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