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Tag Archives: Jan Steen
dog gone complicated
…Since, therefore, the history of dogs has many parallels to our own, it is worthwhile spending a little time on it in order to probe, perhaps, into our own future. The Canidae were derived- fairly recently, in the late Pliocene … Continue reading
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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Tagged Alfred Marshall, Arnold Hauser, Arthur Schopenhauer, benjamin disraeli, David Geffen art collection, Jackson Pollock, Jan Steen, john singleton copley, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Meindert Hobbema, Norman Rockwell, Steven A. Cohen, willem de Kooning
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imagination: leaving the gray elysium
An ambivalence to life reflected nowhere more so than the child’s relationship to memory, at once complete, graphic and epic yet vague, blurry and unfinished. And why not, given the facility to escape, to flee at one’s leisure the fairytale … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Albrecht Durer, Ernst Bloch, Francisco Goya, Goethe color theory, Jacob Boehme, Jan Steen, jean paul writer, johann ludwig tieck, Michel Foucault, philipp otto runge, phillip otto runge, Walter Benjamin, Wassily Kandinsky, Wilhelm Reich, Winslow Homer
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growing up absurd: disavowals of innocence
In Jan Miense Molenaer’s “The Smoker” from the 1620’s, viewers have an up-close regard on merrymakers, where children are inserted as metaphors for adult behavior. There is a capturing of the spirit of the figures through actions and facial expressions.The … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Art
Tagged Adele Enersen, Charles Baudelaire, Fragonard, Frans Hals, Honoré Fragonard, Jan Miense Molenaar, Jan Miense Molenaer, Jan Steen, Nina maria Kleivan, Norman Rockwell, Pieter Bruegel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Richard Halpern, Walter Benjamin
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ORANGE LIGHT DISTRICT
On a narrow, low lying strip of coastal country in Northern Europe, scarcely two hundred miles long, a country so water logged that enemies and rivals spoke of it as mud flat, there arose in the seventeenth century one of … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam van Breen, Cornelisz Verspronck, Diego Velazquez, Dutch Golden Age, Dutch painting, Frans Hals, Hugo Grotius, Jacob Cats, Jan Steen, Jan Vermeer, Joost van den Vondel, Paulus van Hillegaart, Pieter van den Keere, Rembrandt, Velazquez, Vermeer, Vondel
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