Tag Archives: Jackson Pollock

klee: emptying the void

Paul Klee. First thing to hang your hat on is that his great technical skill and intellectualism were peripheral to his art. His art, for the most part, remains a mystery to be solved by most, a sophisticated harmony battling … Continue reading

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identity on the high plains

It was while studying the Sioux and Yurok Indians that Erik Erikson was drawn into an analysis of syndromes that were outside the norms established by standard psychoanalytic theories, yet seemd to also project are more universal insecurity and neuroses … Continue reading

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where are the box cutters?

…Staring dumbly through the glass. At a base level, it is amoral, as interested in invoking destruction as in positing creation. There he is, in a glass cage, dreaming of the supernormal solution and giving off the vibe of misery, … Continue reading

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iggy: genius of action. raw action

by Art Chantry: one of the things i love so much about iggy is that astonishing mind of his. i’m not saying he’s an intellectual genius (although he actually seems to be in interviews). or that his mind is broken … Continue reading

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jarring sales hustle and aesthetic goals

“Art in the native American mind enjoys the dubious importance attached to the devil in the medieval mind” – Alexander Harvey The artistic imagination enters only rather furtively into economic life. Artistic truth is still revealed not by the artist … Continue reading

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fear of hardship: price of precarity

Starving artist syndrome. Or superior creation under the wing of economic security. …. One can bring the matter between aesthetics and economics within the scope of a single hypothesis. It is that pecuniary motivation- roughly, the desire for money income- … Continue reading

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visceral forms: “what’s inside a girl”

The persistence of the nude. We have had more or less traditional treatment since Marcel Duchamp, followed by Picasso and abstract expressionism rendered her to the scrapheap of history. Lo and behold, she could not be avoided for long. It … Continue reading

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nude awakenings

Quarrels, separation, arguments, spats, plenty of yelling and screaming, sobbing and tears. The male artist and the nude has, as defined by modernism and then post-modernism, a contrapuntal relationship for the most part; the discordant seeking to resolve issues in … Continue reading

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eccentric patrons

By October 1942, Peggy Guggenheim was ready to open in New York a new gallery, Art of This Century, surely the most eccentric pleasure dome ever decreed for the inspection of art. Lights flashed on and off, with great rushes … Continue reading

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self made fan: not so crazy guggenheims

According to legend, on a certain Sabbath eve Meyer Guggenheim, patriarch of the family that was to become so rich and heavy laden, summoned his seven sons into his study, one by one. To each in turn he showed seven … Continue reading

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