Tag Archives: Joan Miro

AS SURREAL AS YOU CAN FEEL:Wrong Moon Fever

Posted on January 7, 2011 by Dave

Barking up the wrong moon? It would be more exact to say that through surrealism, Joan Miro discovered himself. It was as if he suddenly had heard spoken aloud the thoughts he had not even dared to formulate in silence. … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Andre Breton, Andre masson, Donald Kuspit, Giorgio de Chirico, Joan Miro, Lionello Venturi, Louis Aragon, Marc Chagall, Nick Drake, Pablo Picasso, Paul Eluard, Rosalind Krauss, Salvador dali, Sigmund Freud, Surrealism | Leave a comment

CONFUSION SAYS: Matisse and the Passion of Constant Motion

Posted on December 30, 2010 by Dave

His whole career, said Matisse, could be thought of as a progress toward clarity and simplification: “A constant struggle for complete expression with a minimum of elements. ” Actually, his career had many meanings, as any great artist’s must, but … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Dr. Beth Harris, Dr. Steven Zucker, Fernand Leger, Georges Braque, Georges Rouault, Henri Matisse, Hilary Spurling, Hilton Kramer, jack Flam, Joan Miro, John Elderfield, Leonide Massine, Pablo Picasso, Piet Mondrian, Riva Castleman, Stephane Mallarme | Leave a comment

HENRI SCISSORHANDS

Posted on December 27, 2010 by Dave

It was the final flowering of Henri Matisse. He was ever simplifying, ever synthesizing, acting younger at eighty than he was at thirty. He sat in his wheel chair and put aside paintbrush for scissors, filling his sunset years with … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Diebenkorn, Edmond Variel, Elizabeth Murray, George Braziller, Greg Kucera, Henri Matisse, Hilary Spurling, jack Flam, Jean Leymarie, Joan Miro, John Elderfield, Josephine Baker, Laura McPhee, Lydia Delectorskaya, Michelle Leight, Miles Davis, Picasso, Riva Castleman, Robert Motherwell, Teriade | Leave a comment

CAN'T GET IT OUT OF HIS HEAD

Posted on May 22, 2010 by Dave

Melancholy, to Robert Burton, the philosopher of melancholy, could encompass many states of mind; mild regret, peaceful contemplation, bitter grief, the hatching of pleasing visions, jealous torments and dementia: I’ll change my state with any wretch, Thou canst from gaol … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Carrie Ann Baade, Domenico Feti, Dr. Ben Johnson, Dr. Johnson, English literature, Jacek Malczewski, Joan Miro, Midsummer Night's Dream, miro, Robert Burton, Sir William Osler, The Anatomy of Melancholy, William Shakespeare | Leave a comment

ENEMIES IN ARMS

Posted on December 30, 2009 by Dave

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 →

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WHAT DREAMS MAY COME

Posted on November 30, 2009 by Dave

Madness, love and mysticism. Perhaps everything you always wanted to know about Dali, Freud, Psychoanalysis and Pictorial Surrealism. Salvador Dali was immersed in the conquest of the irrational, infinite and likely futile search for the unconscious and its meaning. His … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Abby Hoffman, Andre Breton, Carl Jung, Dada, Dadaist, Felix Guattari, Frederico Garcia Lorca, Freud, Fugs, Gilles Deleuze, Herman Hesse, Jacques Lacan, Joan Miro, Juan Miro, Lacan, Luis Bunuel, Marcel Duchamp, Marquis de Sade, Max Ernst, miro, R.D. Laing, Richard Huelsenbeck, Roy Behrens, Salvador dali, Siddhartha, Sigmund Freud, Surrealism, Surrealist Manifesto, Timothy Leary, Wittgenstein | 4 Comments

LAUGHING WITH THE SUB-LITERARIES IN DIXIE

Posted on November 28, 2009 by Dave

Whether or not humor has been considered too elusive or trivial to warrant serious study on its own terms ,like the popular culture of which it is both part and a partaker, is unclear. Some scholars such as Jesse Bier, … Continue reading →