Tag Archives: Meyer Schapiro

swallowing man and myth: presence of the green truth

Posted on September 14, 2011 by Dave

The infiltration of Andelysian luxuriance into Roman severity marks nature’s triumph in Nicolas Poussin’s ultimate works of 1658-1664. As action had once been reduced to immobility, so now it is absorbed by nature’s serenity. Time is swallowed by space, history … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Claude Lorrain, Claude Monet, Corot, David Carrier, Ernst Gombrich, Erwin Panofsky, Franz Kafka, Gustave Courbet, Hamilton Reed Armstrong, John Haber Art, Martin Buber, Meyer Schapiro, miles w. mathis, Nicolas Poussin, Richard Wollheim, Thomas Cole art, William Hazlitt | Leave a comment

too many dicks: aye eyck

Posted on September 13, 2011 by Dave

Most academic interpretations build upon an existing structure of debate.It could be called the common-law approach to artistic jurisprudence.It is based on the idea that future interpretations of various phenomena will be like the past, except more so. Once case … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged arnolfini marriage portrait, Clement Greenberg, Edward Hopper, elizabeth abbott, Erwin Panofsky, Franz Kafka, ian verstegen, Jan van Eyck, John Haber Art, Jonathan McIntosh, Linda Nochlin, Linda Seidel, Martin Buber, Meyer Schapiro, susan fromberg schaeffer | Leave a comment

the committments

Posted on July 5, 2011 by Dave

Modernism in art had the tendency to idealize form at the expense of the human and communal. What of those who resisted? Do what extent can a respect for the human experience give an aesthetic strength to resist submerging itself … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged amedeo modigliani, Bernard Berenson, Chaim Soutine, Cubism, Harold Rosenberg, Marc Chagall, Meyer Schapiro, Pablo Picasso | Leave a comment

hunger artists: portraits of ghosts

Posted on July 3, 2011 by Dave

The theory of Donald Kuspit and a few other less known voices was that Modigliani rehumanized what Picasso had crushed and sucked out. Modigliani was able to connect in his paintings to those live and unpredictable wires – the curse … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged amedeo modigliani, Chaim Soutine, Clement Greenberg, Franz Kafka, jeffrey meyers, kafka a hunger artist, Marc Chagall, Meyer Schapiro, moacyr scliar, Modigliani, Pablo Picasso | Leave a comment

modigliani: mad, bad but a light burning bright

Posted on June 27, 2011 by Dave

Very interesting take on a comparison between Modigliani and Picasso by Donald Kuspit. The point of departure could be Nietzsche’s oft-cited quote that “god is dead” and with him the head of morality also fell from the guillotine into the … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged amedeo modigliani, brad gooch, Brancusi, Chaim Soutine, Donald Kuspit, douglas hall, Friedrich Nietzsche, Max Jacob, meryle secrest, Meyer Schapiro, Modigliani, Pablo Picasso, Robert Hughes | Leave a comment

gotta serve somebody

Posted on May 20, 2011 by Art

However different the society’s they pictured, both Otto Dix and Toulouse Lautrec represented a society in which the proletariat underclass or the under-underclass served the bourgeois upper echelons. And, war and sex, in the sense of romantic realism were seen … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged art blog, Charles Baudelaire, Edvard Munch, George Grosz, henri Bergson, Meyer Schapiro, Michel Foucault, Otto Dix, Paul Goodman, raymond barglow, Theodor Adorno, Toulouse-Lautrec, Vincent Van Gogh, Walter Benjamin | 3 Comments

looking for the punch line

Posted on May 18, 2011 by Dave

There is always the question in art of private meaning within public purposes, a kind of personal humor characterized by a kind of sharing between joke and dream. As E.H. Gombrich asserted, there is always an underlying code that serves … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Arthur Koestler, Diego Rivera, E.H. Gombrich, harold rugg, Jean Antoine Watteau, Leonardo Da Vinci, max sterner, Meyer Schapiro, Pablo Picasso, Rainer Maria Rilke, Sigmund Freud, Watteau | Leave a comment

SEURAT: Quest For The Redemption Of MATTER

Posted on December 2, 2010 by Dave

Studies of Georges Seurat have usually focused on the subject matter; but there can be little doubt that the painter himself nailed his flag firmly to the mast of technical innovation. Technique was, as he wrote to his friend, the … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged André Chastel, Antonia Cunningham, Charles Blanc, Chevreul, Claude Monet, Courbet, David Baptiste-Chirot, Ernest Bloch, Felix Feneon, Frederic Clay Bartlett, George Earl Ortman, Georges Seurat, Hans Haacke, Jodi Hauptman, John Gage, Karl D. Buchberg, Macelo Guimaraes Lima, Manfred Hermes, Meyer Schapiro, Millet, Nan Rosenthal, Nat Rosenthal, Odilon Redon, Paul Cezanne, Paul Gauguin, Paul Signac, Robert L. Herbert, Stanley Hayter, Thomas Kostner, W.I. Homer | Leave a comment

SEURAT: Trying To Connect The DOTS

Posted on December 2, 2010 by Dave

…Seurat suspended work on the large canvas until the fall. When Seurat resumed work on La Grande Jatte in October 1885, he incorporated his new divisionist technique and color theories that he began formulating during the summer while painting in Grandcamp. For … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Antonia Cunningham, Bridget Riley, Chris Dunmire, Christopher Benfey, Felix Feneon, Frederic Clay Bartlett, Georges Seurat, Jesse Bryant Wilder, Jodi Hauptman, Lars Roper, Meyer Schapiro, Nicolas Poussin, Paul Gauguin, Paul Signac, Robert L. Herbert, Simeran Maxwell, Thomas Kostner, Van Gogh | Leave a comment

SALON DES LEFTOVERS: WHO’S FOR LUNCH?

Posted on October 7, 2010 by Dave

He strove only for official recognition; he never thought of himself as making a protest, overthrowing the art of the past, or creating a new order. Yet that is exactly what he did: Edouard Manet, the reluctant revolutionary. Edouard Manet, … Continue reading →