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Tag Archives: John Haber Art
collapsing the geometric order
The search for emotional impact. Classicism and romanticism are only tenuously compatible. Like Cain and Abel, its a contrapuntal piece of music, that if played often enough, like Glenn Gould with Bach, can create some some odd exposures to the … Continue reading
swallowing man and myth: presence of the green truth
The infiltration of Andelysian luxuriance into Roman severity marks nature’s triumph in Nicolas Poussin’s ultimate works of 1658-1664. As action had once been reduced to immobility, so now it is absorbed by nature’s serenity. Time is swallowed by space, history … Continue reading
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Tagged Claude Lorrain, Claude Monet, Corot, David Carrier, Ernst Gombrich, Erwin Panofsky, Franz Kafka, Gustave Courbet, Hamilton Reed Armstrong, John Haber Art, Martin Buber, Meyer Schapiro, miles w. mathis, Nicolas Poussin, Richard Wollheim, Thomas Cole art, William Hazlitt
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poussin: transposing the poets’s world
Just as it abstracts the figures in the foreground, Nicolas Poussin’s geometry opens up nature in the background. The narrow dramatic stage now gives way to a landscape so vast that, it appears it would take more than a day … Continue reading
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Tagged andrew butterfield, Claude Lorrain, David Carrier, Ernst Gombrich, Erwin Panofsky, Goethe, John Haber Art, Keith Christiansen, miles w. mathis, Nicolas Poussin, olivier bonfait, Pierre Rosenberg, Richard Wollheim, William Hazlitt
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too many dicks: aye eyck
Most academic interpretations build upon an existing structure of debate.It could be called the common-law approach to artistic jurisprudence.It is based on the idea that future interpretations of various phenomena will be like the past, except more so. Once case … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged arnolfini marriage portrait, Clement Greenberg, Edward Hopper, elizabeth abbott, Erwin Panofsky, Franz Kafka, ian verstegen, Jan van Eyck, John Haber Art, Jonathan McIntosh, Linda Nochlin, Linda Seidel, Martin Buber, Meyer Schapiro, susan fromberg schaeffer
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STATIC MOVEMENT: Where To Draw The Line
“…Meaning is neither found nor given, but that it takes shape arbitrarily, and that it is dependent upon associations and circumstances that scholars, artists, and viewers all bring to their engagement with paintings. It is not constructed by any one … Continue reading
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Tagged Craig Harbison, Dr. Beth Harris, Erwin Panofsky, Jan van Eyck, Jenny Graham, John Haber Art, Kim Woods, Laura Gelfand, Linda Seidel, Master of Flémalle, Peter Voorn, Pierre Bordieu, Robert Campin, Rogier van der Weyden, suzie nash
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PERSPECTIVE: Uncanny Leaps of Expression and Identity
Within a single generation early in the fifteenth-century, three Flemish artists gave final, consummate expression to the Gothic spirit… Perspective, as a systematic distortion paralleling the action of the eye- which is all perspective is, mechanically- becomes a form of … Continue reading
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Tagged Annette Labedzki, Arnofini van eyck, Craig Harbison, Dr. Beth Harris, Dr. Stephen Zucker, Edwin Hall, Elizabeth Losh, Erwin Panofsky, Flemish painting, Jan van Eyck, Jenny Graham, John Haber, John Haber Art, Laura Gelfand, Linda Seidel, Master of Flémalle, Northern Renaissance Art, Peter Voorn, Pierre Bordieu, Renaissance Art, Robert Campin, Rogier van der Weyden, The Lost Dutchman
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