Tag Archives: Jack Levine

feast and famine of pure reason

Posted on January 23, 2011 by Dave

At age twenty-two in 1937, the Museum of Modern Art purchased “Feast of Pure Reason” , and Jack Levine became known as the school of Boston Expressionism. It seems hardly justified that his work would fall almost totally out of … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged David Sutherland, Dennis Raverty, Harvey Kurtzman, Honore Daumier, Jack Levine, Jacques Ranciere, Jerry Tallmer, Marc Chagall, Marcus Williamson, Pablo Picasso, Robert Crumb, Robert Hughes, Seth Lipsky, Thomas Rowlandson, Titian, William Hogarth | Leave a comment

ENEMIES IN ARMS

Posted on December 30, 2009 by Dave

In politics, the revolutionary radical of today regularly becomes the totalitarian Grand Inquisitor of tomorrow. This is no less true in art: institutional and administrative dedication to freedom often produced a rigid conformity.Or as Hannah Arendt once said, ” The … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Andrew Wyeth, Bouguereau, Cabanel, Cezanne, Charles Dickens, Edward Hopper, Ernst, Frank Norris, Guggenheim, Hannah Arendt, Jack Levine, Jackson Pollock, Jacques-Louis David, Jean Tinguely, Joan Miro, John Chamberlain, Manet, Mark Twain, Matisse, Max Ernst, miro, MOMA, Museum of Modern Art, Peggy Guggenheim, Peter Blume, Picasso, Renoir, Thomas Hart Benton, Van Gogh | Leave a comment

CONSIGNED TO OBLIVION

Posted on December 29, 2009 by Dave

Art in Limbo. Like lost packages at the post office without a return address. Metaphorically, on the bottom of the ocean in Davy Jones locker. Painters without a name, art without a number. Every generation of art has its casualties … Continue reading →