Tag Archives: Jonathan Jones Guardian

bundle up

Posted on December 9, 2011 by Dave

Winter is upon us. Each adapt in their own manner for better or worse. … from Jonathan Jones: Bruegel’s paintings are not just prophecies. They are recipes of adaptation, illustrating new ways to live with the cold: how to inhabit … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged aaron fogel, abraham hondius, barend cornelius koekkoek, E.E. Cummings, hendrick avercamp, John Evelyn, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Paul Kane, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Thomas Rowlandson | Leave a comment

nativity and counting: brand new day

Posted on December 9, 2011 by Dave

In the modern era, the all too human tends to be repressed. But back then, in 1566 it was a time of ingrained, seemingly genetic aggression, envy, hatred and wanton destruction. Perhaps not that dissimilar after all. Bruegel’s Census in … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged aaron fogel, duke of alba, Francisco Goya, Hieronymous Bosch, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Quentin Massys, Simon Schama | Leave a comment

is it art without the spiritual?

Posted on October 27, 2011 by Dave

Is art, art, when there is no spiritual content? Or is it simply at the level of a visual language that descends to the level of advertising and marketing management? Does the absence of the embodiment of the spiritual mean … Continue reading →

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portrait or spitting image

Posted on October 22, 2011 by Dave

There is always a complex psychological relationship between the sitter and the painter, since the explosive issue of the construction of identity is a potent assemblage that continues to adapt itself in the modern world. But its often an ambivalent … Continue reading →

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hail mary: the secret language of words

Posted on October 7, 2011 by Dave

Very contrary about this Mary story. Religion, refugees claimants and hipsters. the congregation is convened. Was there a second sitting for the Last Supper? Can Albrecht Durer’s Virgin and Child with Saint Anne be termed “religious trivia” within the context … Continue reading →

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fire fire! your moneys on fire

Posted on September 9, 2011 by Dave

Should good art always make those in positions of power and privilege feel uncomfortable, squirmy, ill at ease and irritated by pangs of consciousness even if irregular. Or is an art that is ostensibly anti banking and money serve to … Continue reading →

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wayfaring: complicity with the wanderer

Posted on September 7, 2011 by Dave

Is man a wayfarer? A wanderer between two worlds? His destiny that of an outsider, eve an outlaw to the laws of nature; man as wayfarer, restless and unable to settle and establish roots . He reaches a fork in … Continue reading →

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Miro and the Tears of A clown: Harlequin Carnival

Posted on August 21, 2011 by Dave

“Painting or poetry is made as we make love,” said Joan Miro. His personages are hot- blooded, but they have a sense of decency: they do not like to be caught in the act. And so, even while we have … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Andre Breton, Arthur Rimbaud, Henry Miller, Joan Miro, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Man Ray, Max Ernst, Nick Burton, Paul Klee, Picasso, Rene Magritte, Sigmund Freud, Surrealism, William H. Robinson | Leave a comment

freudian slide into nihilism

Posted on August 18, 2011 by Dave

Maybe the problem is a mimicry of art historical forms without connecting to the poetic myths that animated and gave life to these forms. That is, the aura of the profound is a falsification in that the depth of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Auguste Rodin, Charles Baudelaire, D.W. Winnicott, Diego Rivera, Francis Bacon, Frans Hals, Jacob Epstein, Jonathan Jones Guardian, kitty garman, Lucian Freud, Martin Gayford, Michelangelo, Pablo Picasso, Rembrandt, Robert Hughes, Sigmund Freud, Sir Kenneth Clark, spruiell, Vincent Van Gogh, william grimes | Leave a comment

artfully preserved

Posted on July 30, 2011 by Dave

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 →