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bohemia on central park west
Art mirrored life and vice-versa in painter John Koch’s polished household, a milieu that was as far from a traditional garret as one could get… About eighty New York blocks separated the sumptuously appointed fourteen-room apartment of the painter John … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Gide, Andre Malraux, Ania Dorfman, Dora Zaslavsky, Grady Turner, Harold Bauer, Hilton Kramer, Jean Cocteau, Johan Zoffany, John Koch, Leo Lerman, Maurice Grosser, Mrs. Edgar Feder, Raphael Soyer, Wassily Kandinsky, William Backhaus
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max has wings
Its such a weird story and Picasso was such a cowardly figure. The myth of the great resistor is bunk. How di he get to paint so prodigiously during the war with the finest materials available? Max Jacob knew the … Continue reading
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Tagged alan dixon, amedeo modigliani, Arno Breker, brasillach, dan frank, gabriel aghion, Gertrude Stein, Hilton Kramer, irene nemirovsky, Jean Cocteau, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Marc Bloch, marcel ophuls, Max Jacob, Pablo Picasso, patricia sustrac, Robert Desnos, ward houser
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conceptual pradoxes: mock logical ironies
His paintings are enigmatic, or are they? hermetic, sometimes didactic, not exactly pop art, nor even op-art, nor anti-art. Also enigmatically, they are regarded as some of the most influential works of the post WWII period. Success is the most … Continue reading
business is business
….Courtesy of Brainiac Paul Hamilton: 1st of November 1979: BBC Radio 1, a Saturday afternoon magazine show called ‘Rock On’ (WOOO!), and Kevin Godley & Lol Creme are discussing their new LP ‘Freeze Frame’ with host Richard Skinner. Some excepts. … Continue reading
9/11: reaching for the noble among the ruins
Politics in art seems almost inevitable, especially the emotional issue surrounding 9/11, national identity and larger geopolitical concerns which with the unfolding of the Arab Spring, perhaps a metaphor for “regime change”, bring to light an arc of economically motivated … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Andrew Wyeth, graydon parrish, Hilton Kramer, Jackson Pollock, james f. cooper, Jeff Koons, John Everett Millais, John William Waterhouse, masatomo kuriya, N.C. Wyeth, new britain museum of american art, nicolas serota, philippe de montebello, Robert Hughes, Steve Reich, steve reich wtc 9/11, Walter Benjamin, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, wtc 10th anniversary
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brillo pad to kraft dinner to goldfish: integral equations
Maybe it was supposed to be a fake. This whole PR campaign that faked an incident where Banksy transformed the Jesus the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro into Bin Laden was a photo-shop effort. But, though inauthentic and phony, … Continue reading
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Tagged alain sechas, Andres Serrano, Andy Warhol, arthur danto, Banksy, Carter B. Horseley, Clement Greenberg, don dedillo, Donald Kuspit, Ezra Pound, gil vicente, Guy Debord, Hilton Kramer, integral art, keith martin-smith, Marcel Duchamp, marco evaristti, Maurizio Cattelan, piotr uklanski, thomas pynchon, Walter Benjamin
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MATISSE: Cut,Paste & Taste
That Matisse would abandon oil painting and adopt a new technique so late in his career was a surprise to many people, although it need not have been. Paper cutouts were, of course, convenient for a semi-invalid, but Matisse had … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Derain, Brian O'Doherty, Fauvism, Gertrude Stein, Gustave Moreau, Henri Matisse, Henri-Edmond Cross, Hilary Spurling, Hilton Kramer, jack Flam, Jennifer Sachs Samet, John Elderfield, Laura McPhee, Matisse Paper cut-out, Maurice de Vlaminck, Michelle Leight, Odilon Redon, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Paul Gauguin, Paul Signac, Raoul Dufy, Riva Castleman, Van Gogh
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MATISSE: War Years and the Morals of Color
Certainly, the war years seems to bring out some ambiguous behavior on the part of French artists in occupied France. On the one hand, it greatly reduced the competition from foreign sources and citizens not of the “vieux souche” , … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Riding, Andre Derain, Andre Lhote, Charles Camoin, E. Teriade, Georges Duthuit, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Henri Matisse, Hilary Spurling, Hilton Kramer, Jean Laude, John Elderfield, Laura McPhee, Louis Aragon, Louis Vauxcelles, Marshall Petain, Maurice de Vlaminck, Michele C. Cone, Pablo Picasso, Pete Hamill, Richard Eder, Teriade, Teriade Verve Magazine
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MATISSE: Line Dance With Color
Matisse emerged from WWII with a reputation among living painters second only to that of Picasso. The fresh interest in Matisse was stimulated by a late flowering in many phases of his art- drawings, book designs, and oil paintings- which … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Breton, Anton Ehrenzweig, Carol Duncan, Clement Greenberg, Cubism, D.W. Winnicott, Donald Kuspit, Dr. Beth Harris, Dr. Steven Zucker, Fauvism, Henri Matisse, Hilton Kramer, jack Flam, Jackson Pollock, Jennifer Sachs Samet, John Elderfield, Laura McPhee, Leo Steinberg, Louis Aragon, Maurice de Vlaminck, Michelle Leight, Oscar Wilde, Pablo Picasso, Riva Castleman, Wassily Kandinsky
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