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logic of a dream
Giorgio de Chirico created one of the first of these invented worlds and one of the most enduring. Before the word surrealism was invented he anticipated many of its devices without crossing the line into its later conventions of morbidity … Continue reading
new oldism: away from para-art
As a marketing term its not too sexy, a “new old master” lacks the punch and novelty, but it does express a direction for art that reverses the purely conceptual infinity that Marcel Duchamp bestowed on the world with the … Continue reading
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Tagged arthur danto, brenda zlamany, Clement Greenberg, Eric Fischl, Giorgio de Chirico, james valerio, jenny saville, julie heffernan, Marcel Duchamp, max j. friedlander, Michael Balint, paula rego, sol LeWitt, vincent desiderio, william gass
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Renaissance dali: the man with the golden mean
Nuclear mysticism. Merging the classical technique of the Renaissance with the modernism of science and a generous sprinkling of the Golden Mean. A rearguard action that recognized the decline of art while simultaneously denying it. Duchamp saw to that with … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Breton, Giorgio de Chirico, Guillaume Apollinaire, Leonardo Da Vinci, philippe halsman, Salvador dali, salvador dali leda atomica, Sigmund Freud, sigmund freud leonardo, Surrealism
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guilt and forgiveness: “i” for you “thou” for me…
…and a bell jar in between.Innocence. Does it really exist? Or is it just a virtual good to be bartered with Faustus as another bad deal. Contextually, it is more about the ways individuals manufacture or construct a world of … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Solomon, Elaine Showalter, Erica Jong, Felix Nussbaum, Giorgio de Chirico, Jacques Derrida, Marcel Duchamp, Marianne Faithfull, Otto Plath, sylvia plath, sylvia plath daddy, Ted Hughes, Ted Hughes Sylvia Plath
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daddy: visionary times of memory
How do you deal with negative recurring themes through your life that end up instilling a deep pessimism? As a woman about choosing a spouse who holds the same detested personality traits as a disliked father.Take Sylvia Plath:” Trying to … Continue reading
a tangible mansion in the imagination: knock before entering
Architecture has long had deep roots in the imagination. Creating fantastical structures, magnificent dwellings, and phantom cities , painters have always been drawn to erecting a dream architecture of the improbable and often psychologically revealing buildings. Certainly, architecture and psychoanalysis … Continue reading
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Tagged Carl Jung, Chagall, Friedrich Nietzsche, Giorgio de Chirico, Jeremy Blake, Kay Sage, M.C. Escher, Mies van der Rohe, Nikolaus Peysner, Philip Johnson, Rene Magritte, Sigmund Freud, Thomas Cole, Thomas Cole art, Walter Gropius, Wilhelm Pinder, Yves Tanguay
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AS SURREAL AS YOU CAN FEEL:Wrong Moon Fever
Barking up the wrong moon? It would be more exact to say that through surrealism, Joan Miro discovered himself. It was as if he suddenly had heard spoken aloud the thoughts he had not even dared to formulate in silence. … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Breton, Andre masson, Donald Kuspit, Giorgio de Chirico, Joan Miro, Lionello Venturi, Louis Aragon, Marc Chagall, Nick Drake, Pablo Picasso, Paul Eluard, Rosalind Krauss, Salvador dali, Sigmund Freud, Surrealism
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RUNNING WITH LIONS:The Enigma of “The Idiot”
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
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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
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CHANCE MEETING: COLLAGE OF THE INVERTED OEDIPUS
Chance. A roll of the dice within that casino located in that vast structure of the human mind. The roulette wheel stops, the cards are flipped, the chips rise and fall.Chance is what arises from that volatile unpredictable mix of … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Breton, Balmer, Dada Movement, Dadaists, David Hopkins, Donald Kuspit, Dostoevsky, Edgar Allan Poe, Edward Quinn, Elizabeth Legge, Giorgio de Chirico, Ingres, Jean Paulhan, John Milton Paradise Lost, Jose Maria Faerne, Jules Verne, Man Ray, Max Ernst, Otto Dix, Paul Auster, Paul Eluard, Salvador dali, Sigmund Freud, Stuart Nolan, Surrealism, Werner Spies
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