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

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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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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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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

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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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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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