Tag Archives: El Greco

soul of spanish painting: truth comes first

Posted on February 28, 2013 by Dave

Spanish painting. All the qualities are found in one form or another: the extravagance, the earthiness, the harshness, the illusion and disillusion, the gay and grotesque. The themes are God and Man, nature getting a bare look in. And of … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Diego Velazquez, El Greco, Francisco Goya, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Peter Paul Rubens, Zurbaran Spanish painter | Leave a comment

PICASSO, Visual Violence and the Unbinding of Desire: JUST BECAUSE

Posted on December 29, 2010 by Dave

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 →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | 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 | Leave a comment

aN eXPLOSIVELy fERTILe mINd

Posted on February 27, 2010 by Dave

He was the most resourceful of innovators. Pablo Picasso transmuted old traditions into modern idioms. He might even be called the last of the great humanists. When Picasso ( 1881-1973 ) was alive, what he was doing, or had stopped … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Claude Monet, Edward Hopper, El Greco, Henri Matisse, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Lyubov Papova, Pablo Picasso, Picasso, Praxiteles, Renoir, Titian, Toulouse-Lautrec | 2 Comments

HEAVEN AS A TENSE & DISQUIETING PLACE

Posted on February 15, 2010 by Dave

The central incident in El Greco’s painting, ”The Burial of Count Orgaz” is a vulgar and morally pointless miracle. The painting was done to remind a reluctant parish of its feudal duty. Most of the proceedings preceding and surrounding the … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Count Orgaz, Domenikos Theotokopoulos, El Greco, High renaissance, Mannerist Art, Mannerist painting, Michelangelo, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Neo-Platonism, Neo-Platonists, The Burial of Count Orgaz | Leave a comment

STRANGE MANNERISMS

Posted on February 13, 2010 by Dave

The arts had come under grave suspicion as offenders against dignity, restraint and decorum. The tide was running toward a new puritanism in the Roman Catholic Church when the council of the church fathers, originally summoned to set the Church’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Angelo Bronzini, El Greco, Emperor Rudolf II, Giuseppe Archimboldo, Johannes Kepler, Mannerism painting, Mannerist Art, Michelangelo, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Montaigne, Orsini Gardens Bornazo, Tintoretto | 3 Comments

BAD MANNERS

Posted on February 13, 2010 by Dave

Something very strange happened in the world of the visual arts during the sixteenth century. Its opening years were the golden age of the Italian High Renaissance and the arts seemed to have attained a perfection. Da Vinci, Raphael and … Continue reading →