Tag Archives: Jackson Pollock

divine claims from the secular spirits

Posted on March 25, 2012 by Dave

Guides for the perplexed? The narcissism of small differences? Christopher Hitchens did write a book called Be Prepared for the Worst. So, even in an atheist like Hitchens there is a little ping somewhere. There is a famous quote by … Continue reading →

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valor and horrors

Posted on March 18, 2012 by Dave

This hardly a chicken soup story. Sometimes you come across things that confirms that bone in the throat sensation when we doubt the platitudes and rhetoric that the West values the sanctity of human life. Its a Fabian nightmare where … Continue reading →

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hunters and collectors: carry that weight

Posted on January 13, 2012 by Dave

For seemingly forever, sociologists, psychologists, and amateur pundits of all persuasions  have tried to comprehend why people collect; from the Collyer brothers to Eli Broad, it appears a pointless yet universal pursuit at least on the logical surface irrational waters … Continue reading →

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the washington square drips and splatters

Posted on January 12, 2012 by Dave

Hard to pinpoint what brought them together, this collection of opposites that endured to the end. Arshile Gorky was a late and marginal member in Andre Breton’s surrealist circle and he may have transmitted the importance of trusting introspection, and … Continue reading →

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liberating the line: painting the bestial floor

Posted on January 11, 2012 by Dave

Was the use of automatism to pry into abstraction and the subconscious essential to Abstract Expressionism? It can be asserted that it was significant in unlocking the mystery and meaning of the abstract plane; a gateway into the world of … Continue reading →

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conceptual pradoxes: mock logical ironies

Posted on January 8, 2012 by Dave

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 →

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brand name incidental relationships

Posted on January 3, 2012 by Dave

The transformation of beauty into claims of prestige? What if there was no super-wealthy class to cultivate and consume art and hence be able to draw invidious comparisons with their peers? Veblen asserted that wealth display and the splurging of … Continue reading →

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money matter: paint by big $ numbers

Posted on December 31, 2011 by Dave

Are people buying the work for its aesthetic qualities or are they buying the brand. The artist as brand. Although Artur Koestler said buying a reproduction is the same as owning the outright original. Its Cultural economics where the market … Continue reading →

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wrapped in the melodrama of vulgarity

Posted on December 18, 2011 by Dave

Was the impulse of modern art to destroy beauty, to pitch renaissance notions of beauty into the dumpster? Behind De Kooning, was there a profound and embedded hated of women? He did say “flesh was the main reason oil paint … Continue reading →

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is it art without the spiritual?

Posted on October 27, 2011 by Dave

Is art, art, when there is no spiritual content? Or is it simply at the level of a visual language that descends to the level of advertising and marketing management? Does the absence of the embodiment of the spiritual mean … Continue reading →

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