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dark star in a crystal bowl
Madonna. A live Masonic ritual? The dark and esoteric side of kabbalah? The all-seeing eye in the center of the stage as part and package of ancient practices mixed with religious rhetoric with Madonna as Dark Star. Does she consume … Continue reading →
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Tagged arthur goldwag, conpsiracy theories, Friedrich Nietzsche, Julian Barnes, kathryn olmsted, M.I.A music artist, madonna kabbalah, madonna masonic, madonna superbowl, mark dice, nicki minaj, Nietzsche, skull and bones society, walter benjamin angel of history, walter camp
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when my ship comes in
The perceived incompetence of the ship’s captain.The image of the sinking ship always conjures up other traumatizing images of death by sea. Most notably by one of the pivotal paintings of romanticism, the 1819 “Raft of the Medusa” by Theodore … Continue reading →
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
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Tagged Bing Crosby, Captain Schettino, Claude Joseph Vernet, david levi strauss, emily dickinson, gericault raft of the medusa, joan bennett, joel-peter witkin, John Ford, john singleton copley, Julian Barnes, Theodore Gericault, W.C. Fields, Will Rogers, Willard Spiegelman
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8 hours 8 HourS 8 HOuRs
Property. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it. The wild days of May. Is today’s May Day violence a simple mimicry of revolution, colorful pageants of class warfare, or are they forces lurking that question … Continue reading →
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Tagged Eric Hobsbawm, Felix Feneon, Fernand Leger, Julian Barnes, Lenin, malcolm miles, May Day, May Day demonstrations, May Day Violence, Oscar Wilde, samuel gompers, Walter Benjamin
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EXUBERANT BUT NOT ABERRANT: No Orgies Of COLOR
Henri Matisse was termed a “wild beast”, a fauve. Traditional art was soon to become an irrelevancy, an anachronism, as experimental art began to develop its own audience, its own markets, and its own rationales apart from being merely anti-traditionalist. It seemed … Continue reading →
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Tagged Ambroise Vollard, Andre Derain, Auguste Renoir, Fauvism, Georges Seurat, Gerald Boerner, H. Harvard Arnason, Henri Matisse, John Canaday, Julian Barnes, Louis Vauxcelles, Maurice de Vlaminck, Pablo Picasso, Paul Signac, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Van Dogen
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MATISSE & THE VIOLENCE OF COLOR: Painting Safari
The first “event” in twentieth century art took place in Paris, regarded as the cultural capital of Western civilization, in 1905. This exhibition showed the influence of nineteenth century developments of colour and distorted line from artists such as Van Gogh and Gauguin. … Continue reading →
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Tagged Andre Derain, Daniel de Monfried, Edvard Munch, Elie Faure, Emil Nolde, Ernst Ludwig Kirschner, Fauvism, Fred S. Kleiner, Gavin Parkinson, Henri Matisse, Hilary Spurling, John Canaday, Julian Barnes, Louis Vauxcelles, Maurice de Vlaminck, Paul Gauguin, Paul Signac, Wassily Kandinsky
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DETONATING VOCABULARY: Invisible Fame Of An Anti-Language
The final paradox of the search for purity is that it is an attempt to force experience into logical categories of non-contradiction. But experience is not amenable and those who make the attempt find themselves led into contradiction. — Mary Douglas A publisher … Continue reading →
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Tagged Anna C. Chave, Arthur Rimbaud, Charles Baudelaire, Charles Henry, Edgar Allan Poe, Felix Feneon, Felix Valotton, Georges Seurat, Jean Paul Sartre, Joan Ungersma-Halperin, John Menick, Jules Renard, Julian Barnes, Karl Krauss, LaForgue, Luc Sante, Maggie Balistren, Marcel Proust, Mark Irving, Mary Douglas, Maximilien Luce, Pablo Picasso, Paul Signac, Paul Verlaine, Pierre Bonnard, Proust, Stephane Mallarme, Thadee Natanson, Wanda Skinner
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ASPIRING ONLY TO SILENCE
In “The Painter of Modern Life,” Baudelaire is the first to define Modernism and does so as a conjunction of the eternal and the ephemeral. To find that element of the eternal in the ephemeral which Baudelaire saw as embodying … Continue reading →
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
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Tagged Andre Gide, Camille Pissarro, Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Benfey, David Baptiste-Chirot, Edward Morris, Emile Verhaeren, Felix Feneon, Francis Viele-Griffen, Henri Gheon, Henri-Edmond Cross, John Menick, Jonathan Crary, Julian Barnes, Luc Sante, Maggie Balistren, Maurice Maeterlinck, Paul Signac, Stephane Mallarme, Walter Benjamin, Wanda Skinner
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EFFIGIES OF HOPE & ILLUSIONS OF DESPAIR
”They are scared of the inner truth about themselves, more particularly, about acknowledging psychic conflict and trauma as well as the primary creativity evidenced by fantasy (especially dreams). I think the early modernists – Gauguin, Redon, Max Ernst, de Chirico, … Continue reading →
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Tagged Andre Breton, Donald Kuspit, Dorothea Tanning, Douglas Kellner, Edward Quinn, Ernst Bloch, Franz Kafka, Friedrich Nietzsche, Giorgio de Chirico, Joe Bousquet, Julian Barnes, Karl Barth, Martin Heidegger, Max Ernst, Meyer Schapiro, Odilon Redon, Sigmund Freud, Stuart Nolan, The Raft of the Medusa, Theodore Gericault, Werner Spies, Wieland Schonied
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