Shake your hips
Tag Archives: Goya
disruptive mobility: mop up the unemployed imagination
Art that contradicts by showing its contradictions, its unresolvable tensions, will usually end up being debunked and marginalized as a distortion to a broader picture.A random anomaly to be forgotten. There is a tendency to want to keep our morals, … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Bersani, Cindy Sherman, Colin Maccabe, Conrad Felixmuller, Craig Owens, Donald Kuspit, E.H. Gombrich, Edward Bernays, Felix Nussbaum, Francisco Goya, George Grosz, Gottfried Helnwein, Goya, Guy Debord, Leo Bersani, Mark Vallen, Max Beckmann, Sigmund Freud, T.S. Eliot, Ulysse Dutoit
Leave a comment
$#*! That’s real real gone
Its not an ecstasy of death. Its brutal, factual, inescapable physical event devoid of sentiment, nostalgia, romance, and valor. It is the Triumph of Death; uncannily realistic and without myth, or sermon or ritual. To Otto Dix, death was not … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Adam Phillips, Felix Nussbaum, Francisco Goya, Goya, Goya Maja, Leo Bersani, Marcel marceau, Mark Vallen, Otto Dix, Richard Poirier, Robert Fulford, T.S. Eliot, Ulysse Dutoit, Viktor Frankl
Leave a comment
grim tidings: disasters and masters of war
A preoccupation with mystery, violence and the irrational was always present in Goya’s art. As the years passed, casual observations of the foibles and horrors of the world were transfigured into a vision of life that came to dominate his … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous
Tagged Alan Woods, Diego Velasquez, Edouard Manet, Eugene Delacroix, Francisco Goya, Goya, Graeme Mitchell, Kendall L. Walton, Kenneth Clark, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Matthew Brady, Meissonier, Nicolas Poussin, Pablo Picasso, Trevor Malkinson
Leave a comment
viscious frailties at the most extreme
At the Spanish court, Goya was advantageously placed to observe vicious frailties at their most extreme. At the time that he became Painter of the Household, Charles IV had just succeeded to the throne in place of an elder brother … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous
Tagged Alan Woods, Ann Coulter, Diego Velasquez, Donald Kuspit, E.H. Gombrich, Francisco Goya, Goya, Goya Los Caprichos, Goya Naked Maja, Jerry Vines, Kenneth Clark, Mel Brooks, Otto Dix, Robert Hughes, The Duchess of Alba, Voltaire
Leave a comment
revolutionary for reason: consciousness of a tragic humanity
Horror. The world one usually associates with the work of Goya. Even in his brilliant early years as a court painter, an air of evil hung suspiciously in the background of his rococo paintings. Then, after his illness, they lept … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous
Tagged Alan Woods, Andrew Martin Goya, Dante Alighieri, David Sylvester, Diego Velasquez, E.H. Gombrich, Edouard Manet, Eugene Delacroix, Francisco Goya, Goya, goya Black paintings, Goya's Ghosts, Kenneth Clark, Michel Serres, Natalie Portman, Robert Hughes, Theophile Gautier
Leave a comment
STRAWBERRY HILLS FOREVER
The moon stood still on Strawberry Hill. Through dark and fetid dungeon passages, past amorous phantoms and shrieking monks, the Gothic novel led its trembling readers to a creaking door. What lay behind? Some would say the subconscious of a … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Alexander Pope, Elegy to the Memory of the Unfortunate Lady, Eloisa to Aberhard, Francisco Goya, Gothic literature, Gothic poetry, Goya, Henry Fuseli, Henry Seymour Conway, Horace Walpole, Joseph Wright, madame de Deffland, Quinta del Sordo, R.W. Ketton-Cremer, Romantic literature, Strawberry Hill, Ted Turton, The Castle of Otranto, The Gothic Novel, William Beckford, William Beckford Vathek
Leave a comment
THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS
O.K. its a deal the devil said…Just put your John Doe on the dotted line.Obviously, God was far too unreasonable to deal with, too intractable and demanding, pushing the faithful into the arms of the Devil for whom there is … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous
Tagged Brier, Caroline Kim-Brown, Curling, Goya, Haiti, Haiti Earthquake, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Jim Wallis, Ken Watson Curling, Mensa, Pat Robertson, Robert Taber, Rousseau, The Black Bonspiel of Willie MacCrimmon, The Black Bonspiel of Willie Macrimmon, W.O. Mitchell
Leave a comment
ABSTRACT PLEASURE, DEEP ROOTED EXPRESSIONISM
Surrealism remained a powerful element in bohemian art and culture long after it had lost its novelty, shine and new car smell. It remained an attractive option for leftist artists and writers who were ill at ease with the post-Trotsky … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Abstract expressionism, Action painting, Andre Breton, Andre masson, Charles Dickens, Courbet, D.H. Lawrence, Dali, Dominick LaCapra, Freud, Goya, goya Black paintings, Guardian Co. UK, Harold Rosenburg, Jackson Pollock, Joseph Conrad, Jung, Magritte, Mark Rothko, Richard Hughes, Robert Hughes, Robert Motherwell, Sigmund Freud, Theodor Adorno, Virginia Woolf, willem de Kooning
Leave a comment
COMMENTS