Tag Archives: Fernando Botero

cha cha cha: hora from them hilltops

Posted on May 31, 2012 by Dave

…Livni said she didn’t regret the decisions that may have brought on her political downfall, saying she wasn’t “sorry for not backing down in the face of political blackmail, even when the price was staying outside the government, and for … Continue reading →

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RUNNING WITH LIONS:The Enigma of “The Idiot”

Posted on October 21, 2010 by Dave

For all of them Henri Rousseau was the “venerable child” of art, the great primitive who lived and worked beyond the reach of damaging speculation and sophistication, at one with himself, original, as nature had made him. Conscious, deliberate action … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Alfred Jarry, Allen Ginsberg, Andre Malraux, Andre Salmon, Cornelia Stabenow, Cubism, Dostoevski, Edgar Degas, Fernando Botero, Franz Marc, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Giorgio de Chirico, Guillaume Apollinaire, Henri Rousseau, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Max Beckman, Max Beckmann, Odilon Redon, Pablo Picasso, Paul Gauguin, Puvis de Chavannes, Robert Delaunay, Roger Shattuck, Wassily Kandinsky, Wilhelm Uhde | Leave a comment

''A MODEST PROPOSAL'' BECAUSE SIZE DOES MATTER

Posted on June 24, 2010 by Dave

”How many here have thought of converting to being a Cannibal if the setting was right ? Do you eat healthy as a cannibal ? I mean say there is some fat people …do you go towards them to eat … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Aztec Human Sacrifice, Beth Conklin, Botero, Brian Bull, British caricature, cannibalism, Carlos Fuentes, Circus World Museum in Baraboo, Daniel Lambert, Emile Selbach, Fernando Botero, George Cruikshank, Harold Huge, Isaac Cruikshank, James Gillray, john Lambert, Jonathan Swift, Obesity, Thomas Rowlandson | Leave a comment

Colombian Art Cartel of Inflated Proportions

Posted on July 29, 2009 by Dave

Fernando Jaramillo is a visual artist who lives and works in Bogota, Colombia. Jaramillo has a very fluid organic style characterized by intense saturated colors. He has done some interesting work with mixed media on photography, oil and acid on … Continue reading →