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Tag Archives: John Singer Sargent
halls of mirrors
The paradox of representation is that it is never real. It remains a fragment of cultural dialog that even if conceived in the absence of narrative finishes by providing one. Both Singer’s Daughters of Edward Darley Boit and Velazquez’s las … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Diego Velazquez, erica e. hirshler, Franz Kafka, gareth hawker, Henry James, James McNeill Whistler, joel snyder, John Singer Sargent, mark brown guardian, Megan Marshall, Michel Foucault, radek
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for what is honor
God forbid. god forbid. god forbid. Gender division has nothing to do with god. It is a human construction. A devised, contrived, set of human boundaries that has promoted untold suffering, degrading both victim and victimizer. Boundaries based on sex … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Anita Sarkeesian, Bell Hooks Outlaw Culture, Christie Blatchford, Christopher Hitchens, Feminist frequency, John Singer Sargent, laurie lacelle, Louise Bourgeois, marjorie strider, mohammad shafia, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Pieter van der Heyden, robert bernstein, robert bernstein human rights watch, sebastien vrancx, tooba mohammad yahya
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they never die in paradise apparently. just resting, waiting….
It is certainly one of the most enduring archetypes. One that even Jung could not extricate all the wrinkles, folds and complications from…. It’s called the hybridized biography. Imagined conversations of the mothers of famous men who happen to be … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged amedeo modigliani, Carl Jung, Chaim Soutine, John Singer Sargent, Marc Chagall, mariana cook, Moritz Daniel Oppenheim, natalie david-weil, natalie David-Weill, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Stephen Marche, Steven Spielberg, valentin de Boulogne, Viktor Frankl
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Occupy my coolness
The question that could be posited is whether articles like this, writers like Naylor actually reinforce the very behavior they seek to expose; since ostensibly bringing the matter to public attention may increase the value of the one-percenters, the distinction … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Andrew Potter, Ayn Rand, David Lynch, David Reisman, ginia bellafante, gustavus myers, jerome witkin, joel-peter witkin, John Singer Sargent, John Sloan, Marcel Duchamp, Muckraker, naylor crass struggle, Rick Salutin, Thomas Frank, thomas frank the baffler, Thorstein Veblen, tom naylor
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war games: virtual hero
What me worry? The country is safe. The anarchist threat has been rebuffed. The virtual vigilantes ensure that the sun will always rise on America. …”The latest ‘Call of Duty” video game set a first-day sales record of over $400million … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged albert skip rizzo, Anita Sarkeesian, call of duty video game, Clint Eastwood, cynthia enloe, Donald Sutherland, Feminist frequency, Henry Jenkins, John Singer Sargent, Julian Assange, justine cassell, Marcel Duchamp, peter singer brookings, roger horrocks, Sarah Palin, Slavoj Zizek, tim wise
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plastic fantastic: you look fabulous!
Carefully structured violence packaged and passed off as spontaneous beauty, reproductions of the divine mean as a reflection of that inner you. Everyone is a Venus. What is the alternative? The aesthetic condemnation of the ugly as a symptomatic expression … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged andi zeisler, Andy Warhol, edward kienholz, elizabeth haiken, Gainsborough, gayle kirschenbaum, Jean Baudrillard, John Singer Sargent, judith leyster, laurie essig, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Rogier van der Weyden, Sandro Botticelli, Slavoj Zizek, Walter Benjamin
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artfully preserved
The paintings may appear a bit superficial, an air of being quickly rendered and spontaneous, like Bob Ross “deep” , but they were painstakingly and deliberately wrought … Franz Hals is at the Met and the seventeenth-century Dutch master has … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Claude Monet, Edouard Manet, Frans Hals, James McNeill Whistler, Jean Antoine Watteau, John Singer Sargent, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Norman Rockwell, Rembrandt, ROberta Smith New York Times, seymour slive, Vincent Van Gogh, walter liedtke
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PORTRAIT OF REENACTMENT
The unknown lady below sat for this luminous portrait in the middle of the fifteenth century. Her cone shaped henin is fastened with a velvet loop beneath her chin and pushed back to reveal the high, plucked forehead so much … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Chester Dale, Eugene Delacroix, History Portrait painting, Ingres, Ingres Monsieur Bertin, J.A.D. Ingres, John Singer Sargent, Michelangelo, Petrus Christus, Pietro Annigoni, Portrait painting, Queen Elizabeth I, Salvador dali, William Draper
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FAMILIAR TRUTHS IN ''A PIMP'S PROFESSION''
“I never knew of but one artist, and this is Tom Eakins, who could resist the temptation to see what they think ought to be rather than what is.” – Walt Whitman. If the self-portrait below does not appear especially jubilant, … Continue reading
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