Tag Archives: Lyonel Feininger

jailbird love songs

All the arguments for de-legitimizing Israel are fair game. Not for the supposed and ostensible reasons we usually hear, excessive violence, and  racism for example,  but because the country is totally inept, and for its own security and those of … Continue reading

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enlightenment by design: build a better world?

The Enlightenment. This is our tradition. Our world view. The liberal, rational, humanitarian way of thought that have persisted since Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations, the French Revolution and had earlier seeds in the likes of Spinoza, among others. It … Continue reading

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wild bauhaus bohemians: mechanical paradise

A “house for building” is what Walter Gropius called the new school he founded in Germany in 1919. But the Bauhaus was much more than its modest name implies: it was a force that changed the shape of the modern … Continue reading

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unconscious aggression: the blind minotaur

“When one has no character, one must have a method.” (Camus ) How can one reconcile such an atrocious human being with art? Unless its an art that glorifies the ugly, the sadistic; an impulse drunk on misogyny that craved … Continue reading

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variations of destructive mockery

Overrated? Is it true that Picasso could pathologically destroy, or sabotage paintings of the old masters by sullying and subverting them? Is it simple playfulness,a prank,a mockery, a tribute, or an attempt to surpass the original? Strip Picasso of his … Continue reading

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fathers and sons: leaving traces

It was a school that combined crafts and fine arts, and conceptually followed a basic  idea that mass-production was reconcilable with  individual artistic spirit. Founded at Weimar in 1919, Bauhaus concepts of art were particularly influenced by Modernism. That is, … Continue reading

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WEIMAR REPUBLIC and the UNCANNY “SECOND SIGHT”

“A member asked what was the ethos of German Expressionism, suggesting it was ‘cultural despair’. The speaker reiterated his title phrase: ‘an explosive cocktail of cultural despair and political instability’, adding that the German character seemed almost morbid in its … Continue reading

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