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a failed jasper johns: where true genius lies
by Art Chantry: when you collect bad paintings like i do (and as do so many others), you begin to see some patterns. there are a few major categories, for instance. by far the most common bad painting is a … Continue reading
the “oedipal” murder and on to a new era
by Art Chantry: most people try to link my thinking to andy warhol. i get that. my stuff looks a lot like andy’s work becasue we’re both pulling from the same galaxy of americana. he and i had a lot … Continue reading
when the noble run free
The Enlightenment. It has become an ordinary and familiar thing; like a Marcel Duchamp sculpture, what was once subversive and novel, the quarrel with Christianity and that people of different religious affiliations could live peacefully together, has now become an … Continue reading
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
pining for the grey elysium
Can an artist be beyond the reach of criticism because they have been so institutionalized and commodified by the taste makers of celebrity? Are we buying the talent, the art or the brand, like the steak and sizzle distinction. The … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Andre Breton, bertram lewin, Charles Le Brun, D.W. Winnicott, Diego Velazquez, james kalm, Jasper Johns, Lawrence Alloway, Leo Steinberg, Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, w.r. bion, Walter Benjamin, willem de Kooning
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ragged glory
The first impression is of some weekend painter with a crude, vulgar, unskilled hand depicting mercenary goons, violence, power, subjugation, and a whole stock of themes from the politically correct almanac. Once that prejudice falls away there is something quite … Continue reading
warhol: another green world
Rimbaud:”The poet should make himself a seer by a long, immense, deliberate disorder of all the senses”. The constipated mind of dented cans. An alchemical process of language, which Rimbaud could not have foreseen the ways in which consumer society … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged alan kaprow, Andy Warhol, Arthur Rimbaud, Billy Wilder, D.W. Winnicott, Damien Hirst, emmet cole, Guy Debord, Harold Bloom, Jasper Johns, Marcel Duchamp, Michele C. Cone, Odilon Redon, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Wassily Kandinsky
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prisoner of love: escaping the gatekeeper
Attacking the bourgeois values, but the greater the assault the more apparent that the author, in his own particular way, was part of the elite, canonized as cultural commodity himself, like Burroughs and Ginsberg, an icon, a spokesman for articulating … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged Caravaggio, Donald Kuspit, Jasper Johns, Jean Genet, Jerry Saltz, lari pittman, Lord Byron, nigel williams BBC, Oscar Wilde, pierre bourdieu, Robert Crumb, Robert Mapplethorpe, Robert Rauschenberg, the maids 1974, William Burroughs
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