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Tag Archives: Guillaume Apollinaire
fracturing the bow
In spite of distortion, objects in an expressionistic painting are still recognizable. However, in abstraction, objects tend to lose their identity as objects and take on an existence as pure form. An example is George Braque’s “Musical Forms” which is … Continue reading
humor in art: hurt idealism
It would seem that humour and style are inseparable. But humour itself is not-never was-mere jocularity. Humour is a way of feeling about life, and when humour is great it is almost never without one of its opposite moods- tenderness, … Continue reading
futurism: kicking the can down the road
…But in 1938, when Mussolini, at Hitler’s insistence , began to persecute Italy’s Jews, Marinetti published an open letter denouncing anti-Smitism in the arts. The act took courage. But courage had never been Marinetti’s short suit. Thus, in World War … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Benedetto Croce, Death of Marinetti, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, G.M. Carsaniga, Guillaume Apollinaire, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marinetti legacy Futurism, Marinetti Manifesto of Futurism, Republic of Salo, Republic of Salo Italy
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marinetti: follies of futurism
In 1920, discovering that Mussolini was being funded by industrialists and bankers, indignantly quit the party. In 1919 the new Fascist party put up its first list of nineteen candidates and all were defeated including “star” candidate Arturo Toscanini. But … Continue reading
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Tagged Arturo Toscanini Fascist Party, Arturo Toscanini Futurist party, Benedetto Croce, Filippo Marinetti, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, giacomo balla, Guillaume Apollinaire, italian futurism, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Duchamp, Marinetti Manifesto of Futurism, R.W. Flint, Severini futurist artist
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back to the futurism: cleansing joy of combat
F.P. Marinetti and futurism. The grand effort to wipe out every vestige of the past. As the poet Guillaume Apollinaire wrote in 1913, it was the first collective effort to suppress history in the name of art… While Filippo Marinetti … Continue reading
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Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Battle of Adrianople, Bob Dylan, Charles Bernstein MOMA, F.P. Marinetti Futurist Manifesto, Filippo Marinetti, Futurist aesthetics, Guillaume Apollinaire, Isotta Fraschini car, Italian Fascism, Italy World War I, Kenneth Burke, Le Corbusier architect, Mussolini newspaper editor, Pierre Bourgeois, Rene Magritte, Sant' Elia futurist architect, T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Walt Whitman
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all washed up the creek
and no place to go. Rinsed out by the wave of the future. … If political parties and ideologies, including the most reactionary, must constantly look ahead, they habitually look back, too, to the figures from whom they derive inspiration … Continue reading
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Tagged david carson, david carson raygun magazine, Filippo Marinetti, Guillaume Apollinaire, Italian Fascism, italian futurism, jacques villon, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Duchamp, Marinetti Manifesto of Futurism, Norman Bel Geddes, R.W. Flint, Raymod Loewy, Raymond Duchamp-Villon
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deep philosophy or conceptual quip?
The greatest philosopher in modern art? Or did the art world make him, artificially construct him into a “readymade” himself, the philosopher who would trash tradition and under the pretext of modernism and the new, engage in the kind of … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Breton, Andy Warhol, Bernard von Lindenau, Damien Hirst, francis p. nauman, Giotto, Guillaume Apollinaire, Jeff Koons, Joseph Beuys, Marcel Duchamp, mark polizzotti, Martin Heidegger, rudolf herz, The Enlightenment
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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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PICASSO & IDEALS OF PEACE: Better Red than Fed
Pablo Picasso found himself in Paris during World War II. Stranded……. Overall, reading through Matisse’s correspondence with Camoin in La Revue de l’Art (12, 1971) makes me suspect that Matisse’s behavior during Vichy had little to do directly with the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Riding, Albert Camus, Aristide Maillol, Carl Goldstein, Charles Camoin, Dave Douglas, Dave Douglas Duncan, Demetrios Galanis, Dina Vierny, Donald Kuspit, Dora Maar, Ernst Junger, Florence Gould, Frederic Spotts, Georges Duthuit, Gerhard Heller, Guillaume Apollinaire, Henri Matisse, Hilary Spurling, Jean Cocteau, Jean Paul Sartre, Jean Paulhan, Leonard Cohen, Louis Aragon, Marcel Jouhandeau, Marie-Louise Bousquet, Maurice de Vlaminck, Max Jacob, Megan Meighan, Michele C. Cone, Michele Leight, Pablo Picasso, Pierre Fournier, Ramon Fernandez, Richard Eder, Riva Castleman, Rob Cameron, Robert E. Lester, Rosalind Krauss, Sacha Guitry, Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Spott
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