Tag Archives: Jeff Koons

full circle

Posted on March 21, 2012 by Dave

Sometimes things become intertwined in a full circle that initially escapes us since the assumed understanding is based on enlightenment principles guided by the linear progression of science and technology where evolution is rational and explainable. In Donald Kuspit’s The … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Alexandre Cabanel, Andy Warhol, Damien Hirst, Edward Landseer, Francis Bacon, French Salon painting, Jean Leon Gerome, Jeff Koons, Madame Pickwick, Marcel Duchamp, Marquis de Sade, Norman Rockwell, odd nerdrum, Sarah Bernhardt | Leave a comment

a little piece of heaven?

Posted on February 1, 2012 by Dave

Prostrate anxiety? the thingamagig complex. Objectifying the human body as part of splitting off the corporeal from the spiritual and convicting poor Eros of demon status, branding her forever with the unfavorable P.R. she has had to endure. The short … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged alex comfort, Damien Hirst, Edouard Manet, Faye Dunaway, Jacques Lacan, Jeff Koons, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Kiki Smith, Martha Rosler, robert stoller, Sigmund Freud, Vanessa Beecroft | Leave a comment

duchamp’s children: spectacle of the private parts

Posted on January 13, 2012 by Dave

…. Is there still the spiritual in art, the kind of transcending of the sacred/profane dynamic that Kandinsky spoke of? The grip of anti-art within the art world is predominant and intransigent. The argument has been made that post-modern art … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Andy Warhol, Charles Baudelaire, Eli Broad, elliott barowitz, hans hoffman, Jeff Koons, la cicciolina, Marcel Duchamp, rem koolhaas, rudolf herz, Wassily Kandinsky | Leave a comment

conceptual pradoxes: mock logical ironies

Posted on January 8, 2012 by Dave

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 →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged David Geffen, Donald Kuspit, Hilton Kramer, Jackson Pollock, Jasper Johns, Jeff Koons, john coplans, leo castelli, Marcel Duchamp, Michael Crichton, Roy Lichtenstein, Wassily Kandinsky | Leave a comment

memory lane

Posted on December 16, 2011 by Dave

Perhaps the most compelling feature of modernism is the rejection of tragedy. A disdain and unconsciousness of within the context of a rupture with history. Its hubris, a mark of identity and also the genesis of its own failure, a … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged amedeo modigliani, Andy Warhol, Ayn Rand, Brecht, Chaim Soutine, Clement Greenberg, edgar levenson, Eli Wiesel, emil munier, Jeff Koons, Kazimir Malevich, Marc Chagall, Norman Rockwell, Pablo Picasso, Sigmund Freud | Leave a comment

degenerate art : fear of the everyday hucksters

Posted on November 27, 2011 by Dave

Signs of pretense. Pretend art where the sentiments are an elaborate fake far removed from genuine emotion. Something like what Freud called the joke in art in his study of Michelangelo’s Moses but now on a grand, industrial scale of … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged albert speer, Andy Warhol, Bruce Nauman, dan graham art, daniel boorstin, Edvard Munch, Erich Fromm, gitta sereny, Guy Debord, henri Lefebvre, jay a. clarke, Jeff Koons, Joseph Schumpeter, lynn h. nicholas, Marcel Duchamp, Piet Mondrian, Theodor Adorno, Vanessa Beecroft, wilson bryan key, YSL Mondrian dresses | Leave a comment

feel the feeling from without: vulgar(t)

Posted on November 26, 2011 by Dave

When dreams turn into a dark nightmare, a small flickering flame extinguishable by a baby’s breath. It’s the realization of a nihilistic endgame, but its causes, and controlling forces are not always tangible, the reality is not transparent and the … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Andre Breton, Charles Baudelaire, Clement Greenberg, D.W. Winnicott, Donald Kuspit, Francis Picabia, Franz Kafka, Frederico Fellini, Hans Bellmer, Jeff Koons, Leautremont, Marcel Duchamp, paul mccarthy, Sigmund Freud, T.S. Eliot, Walter Benjamin, Yves Klein | Leave a comment

inanimate itch for the kitsch: real men don’t eat kitsch?

Posted on November 16, 2011 by Dave

Modernist culture is simply not animated by eternal values of the purity of art and abstract truth. Like the dinosaur it failed to adapt and we tossed the baby out with the bath water. Not surprisingly, Walter Benjamin said that … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged bazzano-nelson, Clement Greenberg, Damien Hirst, Donald Kuspit, Esther Leslie, godley and Creme, Jacques Derrida, Jean Baudrillard, Jeff Koons, kracauer, liliana porter, Marcel Duchamp, Michel Foucault, Roger Scruton, Sigmund Freud, sylvia meyer, Theodor Adorno, W.H. Auden, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

new vision of visions: the inner need

Posted on October 27, 2011 by Dave

What is meant by spiritual experience? Not evident in the era of post-modernism, Chris Hitchens, and the dubious pursuit of art as a spiritual experience. Still, there is a necessity to avoid standardization and leave an artistic scar so to … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Christopher Hitchens, Damien Hirst, Ernest Becker, Franz Marc, Gustav Landauer, Henri Matisse, Jeff Koons, Martin Buber, richard stratton, silvano arieti, Viktor Frankl, Wassily Kandinsky, William James | Leave a comment

is it art without the spiritual?

Posted on October 27, 2011 by Dave

Is art, art, when there is no spiritual content? Or is it simply at the level of a visual language that descends to the level of advertising and marketing management? Does the absence of the embodiment of the spiritual mean … Continue reading →