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paris 1919
When simplistic views of the working class are no longer valid. The machine, in post WWI Europe, had not, after all, turned out to be the instrument of social liberation; and in just about every country in the world the … Continue reading
absolute shower of gold
Van Gogh spent a little more than two years in Arles and its environs, painting the burning light and indelible shadows of Arles… The city languished under the Provencal sun, adding to its collection of interesting buildings during the Renaissance … Continue reading
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Tagged Aaron Sheon, Arles Vincent van Gogh, Fernand Leger, Gilbert Rose, John Gedo, Kaiser-Friedrich Museum, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mark Rothko, monks of montmajour, Pablo Picasso, Paul Gauguin, Rembrandt, Van Ens dutch engineer, Van Gogh Arles, Vincent Van Gogh
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striving to please: the second tear
It always strives to please. Pleasing and self-congatulating as a ready-made. Kitsch. The inevitable feature of an art in which too much money and desire is chasing too little taste and knowledge. If Kitsch is like the common cold, impossible … Continue reading
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Tagged Clement Greenberg, Clive Bell, David Hume, Denis Dutton, Fernand Leger, Hannah Hoch, Harold Rosenberg, hermann broch, Howard Jacobson, john currin, Luke Fildes, Marcel Duchamp, Mel Brooks The Producers, milan kindera, stuart davis, Theodor Adorno, Thorstein Veblen, tomas kulka, Walter Benjamin
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final sale: everything must go!
Just make sure you win the last game.Under new management. Oh yeah. Remember: nice guys finish last. Wailing not whining. Its called the wailing wall; a cry of anguish of the forsaken, and not a whining of the comfortable piqued … Continue reading
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Tagged Adbusters, amelia earhart, Amy Goodman, Billboard Liberation Front, bob marley, Bombing Science, cornel west, debbie melnyk, Edward S. Herman, Eli Siegel, Fernand Leger, Gustav Landauer, Jack Napier, John Heartfield, John Lennon, leo durocher, louis durocher, mark coop, Martin Buber, Michael Moore, New York Dolls, Noam Chomsky, ralph kercheval, rick caine, Ron English, Shepard Fairey, Steve Jobs, steve jobs death, stuart manley, trade mark direct
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stained
For a long time it was assumed that only medieval artists and craftsmen were capable of creating great art in stained glass. It was said that though there world was even darker, their faith shone more vividly than ours. Though … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Antonio Gaudi, church of sacre coeur at audincourt, Fernand Leger, georges rouault stained glass, germaine richier, jacques lipchitz, jean bazaine, jean lurcat, john ruskin stained glass, Marc Chagall, nicolas kazis, novarina, stained glass gothic revival, tiffany stained glass, wallace k. harrison, wallace k. harrison stamford church
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la boheme : mannered art without manners
Amedeo Modigliani. A minor modernist? ” All that was divine in Modigliani sparkled through a sort of gloom ” It is one of those only the good die young stories, terminating at the premature age of thirty-five. There was no … Continue reading
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Tagged amedeo modigliani, beatrice hastings, Caravaggio, Chaim Soutine, Constantin brancusi, Fernand Leger, georges bracque, Henri Matisse, jeanne hebuterne, Max Horkheimer, meryle secrest, Modigliani, Pablo Picasso, soutine
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may day: wet dynamite eventually dries
What the theorists of May Day revolution had failed to take into account were the traditional and only partly conscious associations of the date itself. For centuries it had been a particularly relaxed popular holiday, given over to joyous singing, … Continue reading
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Tagged Bertolt Brecht, Brecht, Fernand Leger, hans eisler, James Frazer, John Heartfield, jules guesde, Meryl Streep, Rosa Luxemburg, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin
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CONFUSION SAYS: Matisse and the Passion of Constant Motion
His whole career, said Matisse, could be thought of as a progress toward clarity and simplification: “A constant struggle for complete expression with a minimum of elements. ” Actually, his career had many meanings, as any great artist’s must, but … Continue reading
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Tagged Dr. Beth Harris, Dr. Steven Zucker, Fernand Leger, Georges Braque, Georges Rouault, Henri Matisse, Hilary Spurling, Hilton Kramer, jack Flam, Joan Miro, John Elderfield, Leonide Massine, Pablo Picasso, Piet Mondrian, Riva Castleman, Stephane Mallarme
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