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the dove: pecking the juice out of life
There is more than a little irony, incoherent on the surface, that Picasso, a lifelong communist and aetheist was the beloved poster image icon of the American art establishment; the godfather of abstract expressionism and the tidal wave of non-aesthetic … Continue reading
jackboots and the aura of love: from dada to dachau
Its difficult to ascertain precisely why Salvador Dali seemed attracted to fascism, and drawn to something in the aesthetic, unless at something in less manifest sense, there was a convergence between fascism and eroticism. The eroticization of the fascist existed … Continue reading
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Tagged descharnes, Dorothea Tanning, Georges Bataille, Gilles Néret, Jean Genet, Laura Frost, Leni Riefenstahl, Leonor fini, leonora carrington, Louis Aragon, Luis Bunuel, ruth brandon, Salvador dali, Susan Sontag, Vincente Navarro
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marvelous automatic: Miro and Roving the Unconscious
Nothing was ever certain about Spanish painter Joan Miro, except the certainty of surprise. A product of rugged , fantasy loving Catalonia, Miro created an unpredictable magic world of forms of his own, that in its way matched together incompatible … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Breton, Andre masson, Arshile Gorky, Chapman Brothers, Ernest Hemingway, Hal Foster, Hans Bellmer, Jackson Pollock, Jacques Doucet, Jacques Viot, Joan Miro, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Louis Aragon, Mark Tobey, Mary Ann Caws, Max Ernst, Melissa Montgomery, Paul Hammond, Paul Klee, Rsalind Krauss, Sigmund Freud, Surrealist painting, Willard Bohn
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An Abstract mask of the concrete: subconscious cache
It is a fact that nearly everybody, even the least observant person , has a precise, albeit mistaken, idea of what they look like. As a rule, they are dissatisfied with nature’s product. They may be unsympathetic to their reflection … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Andre Breton, Clifford Browder, Donald Ellis, Dylan Thomas Hayden, Enrico Donati, James Adams, Jay Garnett, Jenna Cederberg, Joy Garnett, Judith H.Dobrzynski, Julius Carlebach, Laura Allsop, Louis Aragon, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Marsha Lederman, Max Ernst, Paul Eluard, Robert Lebel, Rosalind E. Krauss, Rosalind Krauss, Salvador dali, Valery Oisteanu, Wangechi Mutu
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AS SURREAL AS YOU CAN FEEL:Wrong Moon Fever
Barking up the wrong moon? It would be more exact to say that through surrealism, Joan Miro discovered himself. It was as if he suddenly had heard spoken aloud the thoughts he had not even dared to formulate in silence. … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Breton, Andre masson, Donald Kuspit, Giorgio de Chirico, Joan Miro, Lionello Venturi, Louis Aragon, Marc Chagall, Nick Drake, Pablo Picasso, Paul Eluard, Rosalind Krauss, Salvador dali, Sigmund Freud, Surrealism
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PICASSO & IDEALS OF PEACE: Better Red than Fed
Pablo Picasso found himself in Paris during World War II. Stranded……. Overall, reading through Matisse’s correspondence with Camoin in La Revue de l’Art (12, 1971) makes me suspect that Matisse’s behavior during Vichy had little to do directly with the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Riding, Albert Camus, Aristide Maillol, Carl Goldstein, Charles Camoin, Dave Douglas, Dave Douglas Duncan, Demetrios Galanis, Dina Vierny, Donald Kuspit, Dora Maar, Ernst Junger, Florence Gould, Frederic Spotts, Georges Duthuit, Gerhard Heller, Guillaume Apollinaire, Henri Matisse, Hilary Spurling, Jean Cocteau, Jean Paul Sartre, Jean Paulhan, Leonard Cohen, Louis Aragon, Marcel Jouhandeau, Marie-Louise Bousquet, Maurice de Vlaminck, Max Jacob, Megan Meighan, Michele C. Cone, Michele Leight, Pablo Picasso, Pierre Fournier, Ramon Fernandez, Richard Eder, Riva Castleman, Rob Cameron, Robert E. Lester, Rosalind Krauss, Sacha Guitry, Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Spott
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MATISSE: War Years and the Morals of Color
Certainly, the war years seems to bring out some ambiguous behavior on the part of French artists in occupied France. On the one hand, it greatly reduced the competition from foreign sources and citizens not of the “vieux souche” , … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Riding, Andre Derain, Andre Lhote, Charles Camoin, E. Teriade, Georges Duthuit, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Henri Matisse, Hilary Spurling, Hilton Kramer, Jean Laude, John Elderfield, Laura McPhee, Louis Aragon, Louis Vauxcelles, Marshall Petain, Maurice de Vlaminck, Michele C. Cone, Pablo Picasso, Pete Hamill, Richard Eder, Teriade, Teriade Verve Magazine
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MATISSE: Line Dance With Color
Matisse emerged from WWII with a reputation among living painters second only to that of Picasso. The fresh interest in Matisse was stimulated by a late flowering in many phases of his art- drawings, book designs, and oil paintings- which … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Breton, Anton Ehrenzweig, Carol Duncan, Clement Greenberg, Cubism, D.W. Winnicott, Donald Kuspit, Dr. Beth Harris, Dr. Steven Zucker, Fauvism, Henri Matisse, Hilton Kramer, jack Flam, Jackson Pollock, Jennifer Sachs Samet, John Elderfield, Laura McPhee, Leo Steinberg, Louis Aragon, Maurice de Vlaminck, Michelle Leight, Oscar Wilde, Pablo Picasso, Riva Castleman, Wassily Kandinsky
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PROPAGANDA OF THE DEEDS AND DON'TS
”According to an apocryphal story, Henry Kissinger/André Malraux/an unidentified journalist once asked Chinese premier Zhou Enlai about the significance of the French Revolution. Zhou reportedly replied that it was still too early to tell. Taking this story in its intended spirit, one might … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert and Lucy Parsons, Albert Parsons, Alexander Berkman, Anarchism, Anarchist Action, Anarchist movement, Andre Malraux, Arthur Martin, Berrigan Brothers, Black Bloc, Domela Nieuwenhuis, Emile Florion, Gandhi, Gandhi Groupies, George Woodcock, Gerda Taro, Guiseppe Fanelli, Henry Kissinger, James L. Gelvin, Louis Aragon, Marxism, Mikail Bakunin, Mike Flugennock, Peter Shields Police officer, Pierre Joseph Proudhon, Tolstoy, Van Helsing, William Godwin
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