Tag Archives: John Milton

dual core

Posted on March 23, 2012 by Dave

The paintings and art of the Orientalists, including photography, fostered tourism and a fascination with the Orient that shaped and reinforced the Western image of the Orient that is subjectively under the sway of still existing colonial motivations, religious intolerance … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Donald Davidson, Eduard Charlemont, Edward Said, francois molins, H.G. Wells, Jacques Lacan, James Tissot, Jean Genet, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Jean Leon Gerome, John Milton, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mohammed Merah, Rabbi Sandler toulouse, Sam Huntington, Slavoj Zizek, toulouse killings | Leave a comment

layton & those wild peculiar joys

Posted on March 11, 2012 by Dave

Quite a mixed bag in looking at Irving Lyton on his 100th birthday. Not everything was gold, but there was in sum, a spiritual consciousness with the man, a leaving to the control of the instinct as sign of his … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged Allen Ginsberg, barbara golden, Ezra Pound, Harold Bloom, Irving Layton, Irving Layton 100th anniversary, John Milton, Larry Rivers, Leonard Cohen, Milton Paradise Lost, Pablo Picasso, T.S. Eliot, willem de Kooning, William Hazlitt | Leave a comment

nature abhors a straight line

Posted on February 12, 2012 by Dave

England’s original contribution to garden art is the landscape park. William Kent was among the first to see that “all nature is a garden.” and his famous dictum that ” nature abhors a straight line.” Interesting in light of linear … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Alexander Pope, Capability Brown, Claude Lorrain, English gardens 18th Century, Horace Walpole, John Milton, Kew Gardens Syon House, Lord Lyttleton, Lord Temple at Stowe, Sir William Chambers, William Kent | Leave a comment

eye of the tyger

Posted on January 19, 2012 by Dave

William Blake saw heaven in a speck of dust. Toying on the brink of madness, he always seemed to stop just short of leaping off the cliff, of sacrificing himself to some form of wish fulfilling fantasy. An enigma of … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Arthur Rimbaud, craig raine, Edvard Munch, Gordon Brown, Harold Bloom, ian mcewan, Isaac Newton, John Milton, Sigmund Freud, Voltaire, W.B. Yeats, William Blake | Leave a comment

800,000 words

Posted on December 5, 2011 by Dave

A religion of Jesus or a religion about Jesus…As Jonathan Swift once said, “We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.” ‎”among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (jesus) … Continue reading →

Posted in Shake Your Hips | Tagged James Gillray, john foxe, John Milton, Jonathan Swift, King James I, king james version of the bible, Martin Buber Institute for Dialogical Ecology, michael valpy, pearce carefoote, Shakespeare, Thomas Jefferson, william tyndale | Leave a comment

angel fatigue: it’s lonely at the top

Posted on October 5, 2011 by Dave

Rewards and air miles. frequent flyers.Who knows who you’ll cross flight paths with up in the heavens. Its a difficult issue in dealing with whether ,and how many other spirits in the celestial hierarchy are good or evil, fallen or … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged amy winehouse, barbara taylor, bernard j. bamberger, Fragonard, Francois Boucher, fraser harrison, harry m. olinsky, Hieronymous Bosch, Honoré Fragonard, Jacques Callot, Jean Genet, john dryden, John Milton, Joost van den Vondel, Martin Buber, Randy Newman, Rembrandt, Salvador dali, sarah ellis, Vondel, William Blake | Leave a comment

angels and the catastrophe of history:waiting for his master’s voice

Posted on October 5, 2011 by Dave

Why do angels have wings? What do angels mean today? In early Christian times God’s messengers walked as men. But after the sweeping conversions of the pagan world, Christian artists found inspiration in the flying deities of ancient faiths dressing … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged coventry patmore, douglas bourgeois, Emil Jannings, Gershom Scholem, John Milton, John Ruskin, Marlene Dietrich, Martin Buber, Paul Klee, randy newman harps and angels, Robert ParkeHarrison, steve pinker, Thorstein Veblen, walter benjamin angel of history | Leave a comment

poussin : zest for the western spaghetti

Posted on September 5, 2011 by Dave

Nicolas Poussin wanted to go to the source. And the source, at that time, was Rome… Twice, he tried to reach it. Twice, lack of money stopped him. The decisive opportunity was given him in 1624 by a poet, the … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Caravaggio, Cardinal Antonio Barberini, cassiano dal pozzo, Donald Kuspit, Ernst Gombrich, Erwin Panofsky, John Milton, Keith Christiansen, Leonardo Da Vinci, marino adonis, Marino Marini, Nicolas Poussin, Peter Paul Rubens, pietra da cortona, Richard Wolheim, Titian | Leave a comment

conflicting tendencies: the poet and peasant

Posted on August 30, 2011 by Dave

Nicolas Poussin’s work is full of conflicting tendencies. More exactly, with tendencies that ought to be conflicting and that would be anywhere but in Poussin’s painting. This many sidedness, these very contradictions, determine and explain his classicism. For classicism as … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Anthony Blunt, Charles Baudelaire, Clement Greenberg, denis mahon, Ernst Gombrich, ferdinand elle, georges lallemand, Goethe, John Constable, John Milton, Keith Christiansen, Marie de Medicis, Nicolas Poussin, Peter Paul Rubens, William Hazlitt | Leave a comment

garden of earthly delights: paradise lost and better forgotten

Posted on March 7, 2011 by Dave

Very few paintings in the history of art have puzzled viewers as “The Garden of Earthly Delights”. Perhaps both the godless and the god fearing, the hedonist, the Apollonian and the Dionysian, and those addicted to instant gratification can draw … Continue reading →