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meninas: sweeping out our house
Same shit. Different day.The tragic waltz of nihilism to achieve a kind of purification, a kind of radical immanence. Kitschified and recyclable. It sells. The grotesque arranged for esthetic profit. Artistically, it reflects the love hate relationship with the modern … Continue reading
the raw deal. throw the dice: winner take all
And winner take all… imagined outcomes. Libidinal investments. Perversion as an attitude and perversion as a practice. As Walter Benjamin said in the Arcades Project:“The fascination of danger is at the bottom of all great passions. There is no fullness … Continue reading
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Tagged Brooke Shields, Charles Baudelaire, Donald Kuspit, Edouard Manet, emily browning, fernando meirelles, James Joyce, joan crawford, Lars von Trier, Louis Malle, melancholia kirsten dunst, miles w. mathis, Pablo Picasso, Sigmund Freud, sleeping beauty movie, Walter Benjamin
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swallowing man and myth: presence of the green truth
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
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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
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poussin: transposing the poets’s world
Just as it abstracts the figures in the foreground, Nicolas Poussin’s geometry opens up nature in the background. The narrow dramatic stage now gives way to a landscape so vast that, it appears it would take more than a day … Continue reading
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Tagged andrew butterfield, Claude Lorrain, David Carrier, Ernst Gombrich, Erwin Panofsky, Goethe, John Haber Art, Keith Christiansen, miles w. mathis, Nicolas Poussin, olivier bonfait, Pierre Rosenberg, Richard Wollheim, William Hazlitt
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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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Tagged Charles Baudelaire, Diego Velazquez, Donald Kuspit, Douglas Cooper, freddie rokem, john bratby, Lyonel Feininger, melanie klein, miles w. mathis, Pablo Picasso, pierre cabane, Rembrandt, roland penrose, Sigmund Freud, Simon Schama, susan buck-morss, susan galassi, Walter Benjamin
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cabaret voltaire: an arcade project
Dada as just another shop, another boutique in the arcade? Dada put into question the myths surrounding originality, and the relationship of the artist to the category of “genius”. Dada suggested instead, or implied that everyone could be an artist, … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Warhol, cubism and dada, Donald Kuspit, emily hennings, Ernst Bloch, Francis Picabia, futurism and dada, George Grosz, Guy Debord, Hans Richter, Hugo Ball, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, miles w. mathis, Raoul Hausmann, Richard Huelsenbeck, situationism, Tristan Tzara, Voltaire, Walter Benjamin, walter benjamin dada
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