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Tag Archives: Joan Miro
the long and winding ramp
War on the fine arts. Frank Lloyd Wright definitely had a chip on his shoulder and it manifested itself on a war on the fine arts. He began as a foe of the academicism, orthodox teachings, and this later festered … Continue reading
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Tagged Constantin brancusi, ezra stoller, ezra stoller photography, Frank Lloyd Wright, frank lloyd wright guggenheim, Guggenheim Museum, Joan Miro, Lewis Mumford, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Michelangelo, Tino Sehgal, Wassily Kandinsky
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the washington square drips and splatters
Hard to pinpoint what brought them together, this collection of opposites that endured to the end. Arshile Gorky was a late and marginal member in Andre Breton’s surrealist circle and he may have transmitted the importance of trusting introspection, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Abstract expressionism, Andre Breton, Andre masson, Andy Warhol, Arshile Gorky, atelier 17, Clement Greenberg, harold rosenberg art critic, Jackson Pollock, Joan Miro, John Graham, matta echaurren, Pablo Picasso, stanley william hayter, Walt Whitman, willem de Kooning, Yves Tanguay
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birds of prey
Very angry birds. Hard to believe. In fact, superficially, it triggers disbelief. Can we blame the system of capitalism, neo-liberalism imposed on third-world countries, or rather perversely, is this their Thorstein Veblen response of raising status and distinction by being … Continue reading
Miro and the Tears of A clown: Harlequin Carnival
“Painting or poetry is made as we make love,” said Joan Miro. His personages are hot- blooded, but they have a sense of decency: they do not like to be caught in the act. And so, even while we have … Continue reading
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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muse without meals : manna and madness
The timeless stereotype of the mad artist dies hard. But, sometimes there are a few kernels of truth within the myth, or enough examples to sustain it. It seems axiomatic to state that artists have always, with certain exceptions, been … Continue reading
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Tagged Cindy Sherman, Consumerism, consumerist society, Damien Hirst, daniel celentano, Franz Kafka, gene kelly, Guy Debord, hans abbing, harry hopkins, Jeff Koons, Joan Miro, Jonathan Jones Guardian, kafka the hunger artist, kathleen powers erickson, Paul Gauguin, Richard Prince, sherry stern, starving artists, Vincent Van Gogh, Walter Benjamin, wilfred arnold
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marvelous automatic: Miro and Roving the Unconscious
Nothing was ever certain about Spanish painter Joan Miro, except the certainty of surprise. A product of rugged , fantasy loving Catalonia, Miro created an unpredictable magic world of forms of his own, that in its way matched together incompatible … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Breton, Andre masson, Arshile Gorky, Chapman Brothers, Ernest Hemingway, Hal Foster, Hans Bellmer, Jackson Pollock, Jacques Doucet, Jacques Viot, Joan Miro, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Louis Aragon, Mark Tobey, Mary Ann Caws, Max Ernst, Melissa Montgomery, Paul Hammond, Paul Klee, Rsalind Krauss, Sigmund Freud, Surrealist painting, Willard Bohn
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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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MIRO & CONSTELLATIONS: Looking For Signs From Above
In the realm of art, Joan Miro’s earliest and most lasting impression was provided by the frescoes of medieval Catalonia. Of course, Hell and the Apocalypse were the favorite themes of these artists. We meet men sizzling in the cauldron, … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Breton, Antonio Gaudi, Art Nouveau Rene Lalique, Caroll Dunham, Carolyn Lancher, Dan Cameron, Donald Fagen, Donald Kuspit, George Condo Harvest, Hal Foster, Joan Miro, Jody Enders, Louise Bourgeois, Marina Carlson, Mary Ann Caws, Rosalind Krauss, Salvador dali, Steely Dan, Surrealism, Vincent of Kastav, Willard Bohn
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