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unwilled power of unreality
It is the gift of crystallizing inner experience that differentiates an artist from a mere craftsman or technician, and sometimes this crystallization takes place through the chemistry of some power unwilled or even unsuspected by the painter…. The most conspicuous … 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
Darwin: cchh..chch…changes
…Of course, Darwin’s theory was not immediately accepted by all scientists, either; in England its opponents were lead by Sir Richard Owen, superintendent of the natural history department of the British Museum, while in America the chief protagonists for and … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend
Tagged Albert Einstein, Alfred Wallace naturalist, Asa Gray, Charles Darwin Origin of the Species, David Bowie, Emma Wedgewood, Henri Rousseau, Louis Agassiz, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Sir Richard Owen, Thomas Huxley
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fundamental creation: an evolving debate
Supposedly, beliefs do have consequences. And its a long standing argument where a vindication of evolution over revelation is warranted, justified, or an outright falsehood, junk science foisted on the public. Depsite the seeming evidence of random, mutual and natural … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Albert Einstein, Albrecht Durer, Bob Dylan, Henri Rousseau, Henry Morris, Jan Gossaert, Jan the elder Bruegel, John Whitcomb, Lucas Cranach, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Monty White Answers in Genesis, Paul Broun Republican, Ross Rosevear, The Genesis Flood book, Werner Keller the Bible as History
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mrs. simon: patron before a mirror
Mrs. Simon. Of all the Guggenheim art patrons, Mrs. Simon Guggenheim was less unconventional in her ways and means of philanthropy than other members of the family whose ventures and behavior were often deeply eccentric. Troublingly so. Mrs. Simon Guggenheim … Continue reading
feeding the shark
So long and thanks for all the fish. She claims the Shalit family was holding her story hostage for four years, and she deserves royalties. As Shalit was exchanged for prisoners, she should also figure into the exchange process. The … Continue reading
fathers and sons: leaving traces
It was a school that combined crafts and fine arts, and conceptually followed a basic idea that mass-production was reconcilable with individual artistic spirit. Founded at Weimar in 1919, Bauhaus concepts of art were particularly influenced by Modernism. That is, … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Arnold Schoenberg, Bauhaus Art, Bertolt Brecht, Clement Greenberg, Georges Braque, Henri Rousseau, Josef Albers, Lyonel Feininger, Otto Dix, Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Stephane Mallarme, t.lux feininger, Walter Benjamin, Walter Gropius, Wassily Kandinsky
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telling stories about the book of j
The recent death of Brazilian writer Moacyr Scliar provides a point of departure for examining writing that is outside the ken of the north American context and is deeply inflected with Scliar’s central influences such as Kafka, Isaac Babel, Schlem … Continue reading
Multiple personality art: 3d goth on the long way back
He claims to be haunted by an alter-ego.And he is probably right. Perhaps more than one. He is also becoming a celebrity; making noise in the world of pop art and serious art with haunting, surreal, and mysterious digital prints, … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Adam Szrotek, Amy Verner, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Edward Hopper, Francois Boucher, Henri Rousseau, Henry Fuseli, Honoré Fragonard, Jean Antoine Watteau, Karen E. Hart, Leah Morgan, Mannerism, Mannerist painting, MUFON, Multiple Personality Disorder, Nico Moleman, Ray Caesar, Riccardo Tisci, Sylvia Banasiak, sylvia plath
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SPIRIT WORLD: Talking With a Famished Lion About Poetry
The French painter Henri Rousseau (1844-1910) pursued an ideal in his quest to capture a spirit of innocence. While still very much rooted in French city life, and for many-years a conventional man, he nevertheless projected images of an exotic … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Adrian Searle, Alfred Jarry, Alice B. Toklas, Andre Derain, Arnie Greenberg, Arnold Hauser, Arsene Alexandre, Byron, Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Green, Cornelia Stabenow, Dennis Walder, Eugene Delacroix, Felix Auguste-Clement, Georges Braque, Georges Rouault, Gertrude Stein, Guillaume Apollinaire, Gustave Flaubert, Henri Matisse, Henri Rousseau, Jean Leon Gerome, Jill Fell, K. Kimberly King, Marie Laurencin, Max Weber, Nancy Ireson, Nancy Pinard, Pablo Picasso, Pam Rosenthal, Redon, Richard Jinman, Richard Powers, Robert Hughes, Roger Shattuck, Wilhelm Uhde
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