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Tag Archives: Jean Tinguely
cloudbusters: the friendly skies
Forget rain dancing and prayer. Call cloud busting a different sort of appeal to nature. It is something like a Rube Goldberg apparatus meeting a Marcel Duchamp ready-made. It completes the mundane task of restoring an equilibrium in nature through … Continue reading
the future looks bright
Rube Goldberg.A fantasy world. And a fantasy not always in harmony with reality. W.C. Fields used to say “blame it on inertia” The inertia, the near fear and terror is technology in conflict with the established aesthetic rules of the … Continue reading
lets build something together
The realistic underside. A commentary on the tenuous grip on sanity that an excess of reason and common sense produce. The dead-end of the escapism into stark materiality. Portrait of a realistic underside of the economic miracle where all the … Continue reading
duck soup and poop
It started off as what would be considered toy models. Ultimately, they contributed to the development of early industrial age machinery. At the time, there was a fad for the mechanical and his work almost qualifies to be in the … Continue reading
TAROT GARDEN: Daddy & Arcanes of the Dark Psyche
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
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Alexander Calder, Antonio Gaudi, Betty Friedan, Douglas Eby, Dr. Stephen Diamond, Jasper Johns, Jean Tinguely, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Kyla McDonald, Marella Agnelli, Niki de Saint Phalle, Robert Rauschenberg, Simone de Beauvoir, Tarot Garden
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ENEMIES IN ARMS
In politics, the revolutionary radical of today regularly becomes the totalitarian Grand Inquisitor of tomorrow. This is no less true in art: institutional and administrative dedication to freedom often produced a rigid conformity.Or as Hannah Arendt once said, ” The … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Andrew Wyeth, Bouguereau, Cabanel, Cezanne, Charles Dickens, Edward Hopper, Ernst, Frank Norris, Guggenheim, Hannah Arendt, Jack Levine, Jackson Pollock, Jacques-Louis David, Jean Tinguely, Joan Miro, John Chamberlain, Manet, Mark Twain, Matisse, Max Ernst, miro, MOMA, Museum of Modern Art, Peggy Guggenheim, Peter Blume, Picasso, Renoir, Thomas Hart Benton, Van Gogh
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SWING LOW SWEET CHARIOT
”Movement is unpremeditated being; it is the uncritical expression of life. As we begin to meditate we begin to stop living. . . First comes life; and if we meditate prematurely, if we lend to physical things a critical self-consciousness, … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Alexander Calder, Allen Ginsberg, Claes Oldenberg, Dennis Oppenheim, Donald judd, Dylan Thomas, Ethan Coen, Georgia O'keefe, Ingar Dragset, Jackson Pollock, Jean Tinguely, Joel and Ethan, Joel Coen, John Chamberlain, John Constable, Laura Riding, Len Lye, Max Ernst, Michael Elmgreen, miro, No Country for old men film, Picasso, public art, Robert Graves, roger horrocks, W.H. Auden, Wind Wand
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Art For the Doomsday Scenario
Kinetic art in the Dada tradition known as metamechanics or sculptured machines were a form symptomatic of the New Realist school of art and manifesto as signed by Swiss painter and sculptor Jean Tinguely. Tinguely satirized the inherent nature of … Continue reading
Posted in Miscellaneous
Tagged Dada, Jean Tinguely, Kinetic Art, Kinetic Sculptures, Mark Jenkins, New Realism, Nouveau Realistes
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