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Miro and the green paradises of childhood
Perhaps the most striking characteristic of a child’s art is that it cannot go wrong. There are no bad drawings by children; in the same way, there are no bad paintings by Joan Miro. The German dramatist Heinrich von Kleist … Continue reading
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Tagged Adolf Wolfi, Adolf Wolfli, Alberto Giacometti, Alfonso Ossorio, Andre Breton, Andre masson, Carolyn Lancher, Charles Baudelaire, Donald Kuspit, Ernest Hemingway, Heinrich von Kleist, Jean Dubuffet, Joan Miro, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Louise Bourgeois, Matthew Weinstein, Molly Nesbit, Paul Klee, Philip Guston, Robert Rosenblum, Rosalind Krauss
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fine art “motorama”: hawk to the rubes
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
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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
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back to the garden: Miro and green paradises of childhood
Perhaps the most striking characteristic of a child’s art is that it cannot go wrong. There are no bad drawings by children; in the same way, there are no bad paintings by Joan Miro. The German dramatist Heinrich von Kleist … Continue reading
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Tagged Adolf Wolfi, Adolf Wolfli, Alberto Giacometti, Alfonso Ossorio, Andre Breton, Andre masson, Carolyn Lancher, Charles Baudelaire, Donald Kuspit, Ernest Hemingway, Heinrich von Kleist, Jean Dubuffet, Joan Miro, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Louise Bourgeois, Matthew Weinstein, Molly Nesbit, Paul Klee, Philip Guston, Robert Rosenblum, Rosalind Krauss
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DEPARTMENT OF ABERRATIONS
French artist Jean Dubuffet( 1901-1985) said that he was not a revolutionary but a permanent subversive. His work. however, coincided with attempts in other fields to dispute the accepted values of Western culture.The ethnologist Claude Levi-Strauss had convincingly shown that … Continue reading
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Tagged Adolf Wofli, Art Brut, Asger Jorn, Claude Levi-Strauss, Collection de l'art Brut Lausanne, Hans Prinzhorn, Jean Dubuffet, Jean Dubuffet Art Brut, Max Loreau
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THE PERMANENT SUBVERSIVE
To some Jean Buffet had the greatest influence on modern art since Picasso.” My art,” Dubuffet had said, ”is an attempt to bring all disparaged values into the limelight.” In the 1950’s Dubuffet’s fascination with textures absorbed him completely; the … Continue reading
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Tagged Adolf Wolfli, Aloise Corbaz, Aloize Corbaz, Asger Jorn, Dr. Walter Morgenthaler, Dubuffet, Hans Prinzhorn, Heinrich Anton Muller, Jean Dubuffet, Jean Dubuffet Art Brut, Leo Navratil, Ludwig Binswanger, Paul Meunier
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SAVAGERY SMOTHERED IN LOVE
“Personally, I believe very much in values of savagery; I mean: instinct, passion, mood, violence, madness.” — Jean Dubuffet, 1951.Jean Dubuffet ( 1901-1985 ). A visionary of modern anti-culture. He had a private Art Brut museum, where the world’s largest … Continue reading
RHINOS, PICADORS & MINOTAURS
”Picasso had never been a political artist, and as Jung noted, his images seemed increasingly to withdraw from objective reality and primarily reflected some inner psychic state that he was trying to work out on canvas. He made no war-related … Continue reading
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Tagged Aaron Ross, Adorno, Andrew Wyeth, Carl Jung, Dali, Herschel B. Chipp, Jean Dubuffet, Leonard Baskin, Pablo Picasso, Picasso, Picasso Guernica, Salvador dali, Spanish Civil War, Spanish fascism, Theodor Adorno, Velasquez, Vermeer
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