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Tag Archives: Francis Bacon
full circle
Sometimes things become intertwined in a full circle that initially escapes us since the assumed understanding is based on enlightenment principles guided by the linear progression of science and technology where evolution is rational and explainable. In Donald Kuspit’s The … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Alexandre Cabanel, Andy Warhol, Damien Hirst, Edward Landseer, Francis Bacon, French Salon painting, Jean Leon Gerome, Jeff Koons, Madame Pickwick, Marcel Duchamp, Marquis de Sade, Norman Rockwell, odd nerdrum, Sarah Bernhardt
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norman the negotiator
Naughty Norman. Not really. Unconscious of what he was doing, or in the grip of forces otside his control. Not likely. Ostensibly, it was a play on innocence, but it was effectively not much different than a J.D. Salinger, Isaac … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Andy Warhol, Charles Baudelaire, David Bowie, Doris Day, Francis Bacon, Frank Capra, Hieronymous Bosch, Isaac Bashevis Singer, J.D. Salinger, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Marcel Duchamp, Mickey Mantle, Norman Rockwell, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Richard Halpern, Sigmund Freud
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more than plants looking for a home
The great change in European gardens came with the Renaissance , that sudden astonishing growth of man’s spirit which carried him forward into the daylight of intellectual confidence. He is no longer comforted with the little shut-in plots that have … Continue reading
out of the precious ghetto
by Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design , Maplewood, N.J.) Shellbreak Paperback Library, 1970 Illustration: Jack Gaughan (1930-1985) Gaughan was a remarkable stylist, whose work could have the simplicity and dynamism of a painted comic book cover (lacking … Continue reading
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
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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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gambling : putting a wager on fate
…The gambler becomes the rules by abiding by them, by allowing his actions to be transformed by the rules as he observes them, by allowing the structure to direct the flows of his movements….Is chance a divine game played cosmically … Continue reading
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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suffering the incomprehensible
…”these massive paintings confront one with what Sister Wendy Beckett has called their terribilita. Described by Richard Harries, the Bishop of Oxford, as being among the most disturbing painted in the 20th century, Reichert’s Crucifixions command the viewer’s attention not … Continue reading
freudian slide into nihilism
Maybe the problem is a mimicry of art historical forms without connecting to the poetic myths that animated and gave life to these forms. That is, the aura of the profound is a falsification in that the depth of the … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Auguste Rodin, Charles Baudelaire, D.W. Winnicott, Diego Rivera, Francis Bacon, Frans Hals, Jacob Epstein, Jonathan Jones Guardian, kitty garman, Lucian Freud, Martin Gayford, Michelangelo, Pablo Picasso, Rembrandt, Robert Hughes, Sigmund Freud, Sir Kenneth Clark, spruiell, Vincent Van Gogh, william grimes
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