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Tag Archives: Leonardo Da Vinci
the “salai” copy: hold your hand original
Its the Mona Lisa industry. Eventually it will get traced all the way to Neil Armstrong on the moon and the 9-11 attacks. Maybe its the collective occult obsession and the “inside job” is to be found within the sacred … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Andrea Salai, Bruno Mottin, Dan Brown, Francesco del Giocondo, Francesco Melzi, Gian Giacomo Caprotti, Giorgio Vasari, Isaac Newton, Jose Ruiz Manero, Leonardo Da Vinci, Lisa Gherardini, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Martin Kemp, Milka Levy-Rubin, Silvano Vincetti
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peacocks and goat: hair story
The smart money is always going to be on skimpy clothing and long hair, each generation seeking to reinvent itself; to excite and infuriate for the same reason. And each generation of mothers and fathers, if they reviewed their history, … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Andrea del Verrocchio, Atalanta Baglioni, Bernardino di Betto, Book of Tobit, Leonardo Da Vinci, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Oddi and Baglioni, Pinturicchio, Pinturicchio paintings, Pope Paul V, raphael paintings, Raphael The Deposition, Rennaisance Perugia, Tiberio Alfani, Treaty of Tolentino
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lobal society: southbound
At a bedrock level, it is not known exactly why.But through the tools of observation and occasional research what is known is that the extremes tend to be present, the actions are cryptic and its all wrapped in an elliptic … Continue reading
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Tagged Benjamin Franklin left handed, Benjamin Netanyahu left-handed, Dr. Manjiri Prabhu, Dr. Norman Geschwind, Hy Peskin photography, Jeremy Brett, Left-handed dyslexia, left-handedness research, Leonardo Da Vinci, Lewis Caroll Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll, Lewis Carroll left handed, Mahmoud Abbas left-handed, Sam Wang left-handed researcher, Sam Wang PHD, Whitey Ford
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trading marks
by Art Chantry: this is for all you borks out there who think this stuff is so easy.hand or computer – principles still the same. it’s extremely difficult to do WELL. don’t fool yourself. …in them olden daze of yore … Continue reading
modernism: press the refresh button
Modernism as a ready made. The break with the past; the discarding of tradition. The shock of the new. Modernism struck at the heart of the conventional wisdom in the arts which meant that an aesthetic of plot, dramatic incident … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Andy Warhol, anna freud, Art modernism, Damien Hirst, Donald Kuspit, Francis Nauman, francis p. nauman, Franz Kafka, Gustave Courbet, Janis Gallery, John Maynard Keynes, Leonardo Da Vinci, Marcel Duchamp, sidney janis, Walter Benjamin
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period productions
The shock of the new. A trauma involving a break in the continuity of existence… Which Picasso? As great an impresario as he was a painter, Picasso in his lifetime had produced a whole repertory of artists bearing the same … Continue reading
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Tagged Aaron Beck, art patronage Europe, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Frederick the Great Prussia, Lancret, Leonardo Da Vinci, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Maurizio Cattelan, Michelangelo, Pablo Picasso, Pater, Picasso Circus period, Rembrandt, Voltaire, Watteau
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modern forms to human pain
His drawings, the line drawings appear so simple. Deceptively so. But at the same time, if one tries to copy them it becomes apparent they are so powerful; surprising that single unbroken lines can create so much. The sheer energy, … Continue reading
bandits with brush holsters
Just received some travel cases from Silverbrush for short handled brushes. The Monaco and Tuscany. $12 each and well made. When you think of all the gadgets and accessories that exist you have to wonder what people did in the … Continue reading
kamp: a day in the life
All acts of reconstruction in which what saves the meaning, is its necessary incompletion. Like Da Vinci never quite finishing a work, or more particularly, unable to complete Jesus’s face in The Last Supper frescoe. The holocaust, despite what Art … Continue reading
paranoid spittled walls
This exaltation of the violent compulsive spontaneity so reified by the Dada movement, Andre Breton and Max Ernst in particular was put to almost absurd extremes into an effort to appropriate Leonardo Da Vinci into their nihilistic process of attacking … Continue reading