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cave of tiberius: great grotto its got fragments
The cave of Tiberius. Twelve thousand fragments in an Emperor’s sculpture gallery made a jigsaw puzzle for archaeologists. 1957. With every scoop of the shovel, the archaeologists became more certain that they had located what had once been the gallery … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Athanodoros, Cave of Tiberius, Cave of Tiberius Sperlonga, Cherubim of Solomon's Temple, Emperor Tiberius, Ganymedes Cave of Tiberius, Hagesandros, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Margarete Bieber, Michelangelo, Pliny Natural History, Pliny the Elder, Polydoros, The Laocoon group, Tiberius Caesar, Vatican Museum, William Blake
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the long and winding ramp
War on the fine arts. Frank Lloyd Wright definitely had a chip on his shoulder and it manifested itself on a war on the fine arts. He began as a foe of the academicism, orthodox teachings, and this later festered … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Constantin brancusi, ezra stoller, ezra stoller photography, Frank Lloyd Wright, frank lloyd wright guggenheim, Guggenheim Museum, Joan Miro, Lewis Mumford, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Michelangelo, Tino Sehgal, Wassily Kandinsky
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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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down by the river: it ain’t necessarily so
A space with which the undead can talk without moral constraint. Its a de-mythologizing of what is known as Judeo-Christian thought. Mostly disenchanted and without trust in the Covenant nor faith, slightly minimalist and with nihilistic overtones: fatalistic romanticism trampling … Continue reading
freudian slide into nihilism
Maybe the problem is a mimicry of art historical forms without connecting to the poetic myths that animated and gave life to these forms. That is, the aura of the profound is a falsification in that the depth of the … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Auguste Rodin, Charles Baudelaire, D.W. Winnicott, Diego Rivera, Francis Bacon, Frans Hals, Jacob Epstein, Jonathan Jones Guardian, kitty garman, Lucian Freud, Martin Gayford, Michelangelo, Pablo Picasso, Rembrandt, Robert Hughes, Sigmund Freud, Sir Kenneth Clark, spruiell, Vincent Van Gogh, william grimes
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telling stories about the book of j
The recent death of Brazilian writer Moacyr Scliar provides a point of departure for examining writing that is outside the ken of the north American context and is deeply inflected with Scliar’s central influences such as Kafka, Isaac Babel, Schlem … Continue reading
giants: part metal packets
Apparently, size does matter.They are giants. twelve feet high; a haunting reminder of the ancient nephilim said to have wandered the earth in a remote past. But these are mythological monsters transformed into autonomous structures that do feed a certain … Continue reading
ROYAL COLLECTORS: DROLL PRINCES AND PRICELESS PAINTINGS
Sometimes, it may be wiser to not have loved and lost, or to have bothered even loving at all…especially in the case of the portraits of King Henry VIII’s wives. Nonetheless, the British royal Collection is a fascinating grouping of … Continue reading
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Tagged Allan Ramsay, Anthony Blunt, Anthony Van Dyck, Canaletto, Edward Cross, Erasmus, Hans Holbein the younger, Howard Jacobson, Jacques Laurent Agasse, James Voorhies, Johan Zoffany, John Gould, Joshua Reynolds, Lauren Fliegelman, Leonardo Da Vinci, Lucien Freud, Michelangelo, Peter Paul Rubens, Rembrandt, Sir Henry Guildford, Sir Walter Scott, Thomas Gainsborough, Thomas More, William Etty
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#FLEMISH EYE: Sanctity of the Bourgeois
All that is needed to appreciate Flemish painting, Michelangelo once observed, are two eyes and an interest in facts. He was alluding to the intense realism, the extreme precision, and the illusionistic impression of light and atmosphere with which the … Continue reading
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Tagged Book of Hours Bruges, Erasmus, Erwin Panofsky, Flemish painting, Jan van Eyck, Joachim Patinir, Limbourg Brothers The Book of Hours, Linda Seidel, Michelangelo, Northern Renaissance Art, Petrus Christus, Quentin Massys, Renaissance Art, Robert Campin, Rogier van der Weyden
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