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MATISSE:An Inner Loneliness of Precious Time
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known….No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.( Oscar Wilde ) The birth of a wild … Continue reading
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Tagged Alain Derain, Ambroise Vollard, Andre Derain, Cezanne, Fauvism, Gavin Parkinson, Georges Braque, Gustave Moreau, Henri Matisse, Hilary Spurling, Matisse, Maurice de Vlaminck, Oscar Wilde, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Paul Gauguin, Paul Signac
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ROUSSEAU & THE COUCH IN THE JUNGLE: Landscape of Hallucination
It’s been said, oversimplistically but sympathetically, that “he didn’t know the rules well enough to break them”. But of course there are no rules in the kingdom of the imagination.He knew he was a babe in the woods of high … Continue reading
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Tagged Adrian Searle, Alfred Jarry, Andre Breton, Arsene Alexandre, August Macke, Christopher Green, Cornelia Stabenow, Douglas Cooper, Emil Nolde, Eugene Delacroix, Franz Roh, Gauguin, Guillaume Apollinaire, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Herbie Hancock, Herschel B. Chipp, Herschel Browning Chipp, Jean Cocteau, Jean Leon Gerome, Jill Fell, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Matisse, Michael Hoog, Montague Ullman, Odilon Redon, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Paul Klee, Pechstein, Robert Delaunay, Roger Shattuck, Seurat, Sigmund Freud, Signac, Virginia Chandler, Wassily Kandinsky, Wilhelm Uhde
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THROUGH THE DEADENING MOLD OF CONTEMPORARY CONVENTION
“Picasso developed Cézanne’s planar compositions into cubism, and Matisse greatly admired his use of color. He used color with passion and creativity, giving his brush strokes structure, solidity, durability. Pablo Picasso said the following of the artist “My one and … Continue reading
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Tagged Auguste Renoir, Brice Marden, Camille Pissarro, Cezanne, Emile Zola, Francoise Cachin, Georges Riviere, Henri Matisse, Kathleen Adler, Kurt Badt, Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Peter Morrell, Renoir, Richard W. Murphy, Ulrike Becks-Malorny, Zola
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ENEMIES IN ARMS
In politics, the revolutionary radical of today regularly becomes the totalitarian Grand Inquisitor of tomorrow. This is no less true in art: institutional and administrative dedication to freedom often produced a rigid conformity.Or as Hannah Arendt once said, ” The … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Wyeth, Bouguereau, Cabanel, Cezanne, Charles Dickens, Edward Hopper, Ernst, Frank Norris, Guggenheim, Hannah Arendt, Jack Levine, Jackson Pollock, Jacques-Louis David, Jean Tinguely, Joan Miro, John Chamberlain, Manet, Mark Twain, Matisse, Max Ernst, miro, MOMA, Museum of Modern Art, Peggy Guggenheim, Peter Blume, Picasso, Renoir, Thomas Hart Benton, Van Gogh
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REVOLUTION OF THE SEXY LAMB
” it don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing. Duke Ellington’s 1931 composition in reverse.Were there Subliminal messages in Beatles songs when played backwards? The famous dead-man messages contained within the marketing and the more subliminal experiments … Continue reading
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Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Beatles, Carl Solomon, Duke Ellington, Ezra Pound, F.Scott Fitgerald, George Harrison, Gertrude Stein, hemingway, Henri Matisse, Howl, J.Brahms, Jerry Saltz, John Cage, John Lennon, Kurt Weill, Matisse, Musique Concrete, Pablo Picasso, Patum Peperium, Paul McCartney, Pierre Schaeffer, The Beatles, Thornton Wilder, Village voice
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Bird on a Guitar Wire.
Controversy about the origins of one of the most important symbols of the Woodstock generation. The logo used on posters and publicity for the Woodstock Music and Art Festival is credited to Arnold Skolnick. The iconic dove sitting on a … Continue reading
The Photograph Never Forgets
”…he never discussed his deepest affections. He suffered behind the scenes from loneliness, insecurity, heartbreak. He died with a camera in his left hand, his story unexpectedly finished. He left behind a thermos of cognac, a few good suits, a … Continue reading
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Tagged Mark Jenkins, Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Picasso, Robert Capa
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