Tag Archives: Jasper Johns

typecast: like hiring a dentist to do brain surgery

Posted on September 28, 2011 by Art

by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com) Earlier today when i was writing about the wonders of labelmaker, i mention that (before computers) artists did lousy type? well this little essay is all about the official typeface of the art world: duro stencil. … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Andy Warhol, art chantry, Augustus John, cornish college of the arts, duro decal stencil lettering, duro stencil, graphic design, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Jasper Johns, jim dine, robert indiana, Robert Rauschenberg | Leave a comment

walking the dog from right to left: seeing the in-between

Posted on September 17, 2011 by Dave

Does dog really exist? Has anyone ever gone mad not being able to think of something to think about?…There is something much deeper in operation here than a simple, albeit innovative mastery of logic and mathematical reasoning. These are verbal … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged alice cooper, Antonin Artaud, boris lurie, cy twombley, david tudor, dyslexia, jaakko hintikka, Jan van Eyck, Jasper Johns, john denver, Josef Albers, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Marc Chagall, Martin Buber, Robert Rauschenberg, Walter Gropius, William Butler Yeats | Leave a comment

aspen: thinking within a box

Posted on July 5, 2011 by Art

Aspen magazine. thinking outside the box.as without from within… by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): This is ASPEN Magazine (issue #4, spring 1967) – the magazine IN A BOX!!!! this is the final issue (so far as i know.) each issue was … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Andy Warhol, angus maclise, art and media blog, art chantry, aspen magazine, don snyder, fluer cowles, frank stella, george lois, gerard malanga, herbert bayer, hetty maclise, ira cohen, Jasper Johns, Jerry Rubin, John Cale, lionel ziprin, Lou Reed, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marshall McLuhan, Peter Max, quentin fiore, Shepard Fairey | Leave a comment

moods for moderns

Posted on June 27, 2011 by Art

Modernism has become retro…. by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): For my money, the philosophical dialog of ‘modernism’ is probably the most important and the single most interesting and intriguing intellectual/creative discussion of the last century, maybe even in the history of … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged american design culture, american design history, american graphic design, Andy Warhol, el lissitzky, el lizitsky, frank stella, frankenthaler, Jasper Johns, Lester Beall, modernism, Paul Rand, Pushpin design, rauchenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, william golden | Leave a comment

fine art “motorama”: hawk to the rubes

Posted on May 29, 2011 by Art

Guest blog by Art Chantry.Its a cheezy embarrassing system, one in which the squeaky wheel gets the grease. The most ruthless hustlers and self-promoting con-men become the wealthiest and most celebrated in the fine art world… Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): When … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged adolph gottleib, Alberto Giacometti, Alexander Calder, Andrew Wyeth, Andy Warhol, arnold varga, art chantry, carnegie institute, dale chihuly, Damien Hirst, David Smith, ellsworth kelly, Francis Bacon, Jasper Johns, Jean Dubuffet, Josef Albers, Leonard Baskin, Mark Tobey, max bill, Pablo Picasso, Robert Motherwell | Leave a comment

TAROT GARDEN: Daddy & Arcanes of the Dark Psyche

Posted on December 19, 2010 by Dave

Not a typical garden….. at least an Eden, chaotic and radical whose gatekeeper was the intuitive feminine whose charged powers of women were absorbed with the magical and spiritual power of objects. Niki De Saint Phalle kept delving deep into … Continue reading →