Tag Archives: Nicolas Poussin

high hopes

Posted on March 15, 2012 by Dave

Nice to Delta paint paint back on track. At one time it really was “America’s Favorite Craft Paint,” as they slogan on every bottle. It was such a hot commodity at one point and then it just died; sent out … Continue reading →

Posted in Shake Your Hips, Uncategorized | Tagged delta ceramcoat paint, delta craft paint, delta paint, Francois Boucher, Nicolas Poussin, plaid craft paint, Plaid Enterprises | Leave a comment

down by the river: it ain’t necessarily so

Posted on February 10, 2012 by Dave

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 →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged aretha franklin, david rosenberg, david rosenberg the book of J, Franz Kafka, Gnosticism, Harold Bloom, Jacques Lacan, john frederick lewis, Michelangelo, Naomi Wolf, Nicolas Poussin, Slavoj Zizek, Soren Kierkegaard, William Blake | Leave a comment

gnostic picnic with the guy in the armor

Posted on February 9, 2012 by Dave

Yahweh and nihilism. Nothing like a nice flood or some other event to wipe the slate clean and make a fresh start. Turning the mattress over. Putting the world through the deep scrub dishwasher cycle.Clearly, Harold Bloom and his Yahweh … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged alessandro bavari, Church of Scientology, dan geddes, Diane Arbus, Gnosticism, Harold Bloom, Jean Baudrillard, Jean-Luc Godard, John Zorn, L. Ron Hubbard, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Marcel Duchamp, morrisey, Nicolas Poussin, rabbi akiba, Simon bar Kochba, The Gnostic Bible, The Smiths, tom cruise scientology | Leave a comment

gardens of magnificence

Posted on January 21, 2012 by Dave

We have no idea what the Garden of Eden resembled. Painters have generally rendered it as a flowering green background to highlight Eve’s white nakedness. What we do know is that humanity from the start has delighted in gardens. In … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend | Tagged Andre Le Notre, francis bacon on gardens, Francois Boucher, Jean Antoine Watteau, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Louis XIV, Louis XIV Sun King, Moliere, Nicolas Poussin, renaissance gardens, Sir Francis Bacon, thomas traherne | Leave a comment

happiness is a warm bun

Posted on January 1, 2012 by Dave

Utopias have been around since The Fall, animating messianic visions of going back to the garden. There seems to be a seat-seated urge to look back and be captured by the past to borrow the Satchel Paige quote; to go … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Bosch Garden of Earthly Delights, David Teniers, George Orwell, George Woodcock, Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, H.G. Wells, Nicolas Poussin, Sir Thomas More, William Morris | Leave a comment

relating to the THIRD

Posted on December 23, 2011 by Dave

Relating to the other. It sounds like a great idea. We are depersonalized and the concept of the face to face as opposed to human relationships seen through attempts to conceptualize the totality of being has a certain intuitive appeal … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged August Sander, Baruch Spinoza, Carolee Schneemann, Christopher Hitchens, emmanuel levinas, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Harold Bloom, irina ionesco, joel-peter witkin, Nicolas Poussin, schelling, william gedney, zizek | Leave a comment

perilous exile to zimzum

Posted on December 21, 2011 by Dave

An inherently tormented and anguished Yahweh in a contradictory and self-absorbed rage over a broken creation. Is it a blasphemous, unhinged, theologically devoid and guilty of moral turpitude theory has our religious experience been as uncanny, intense and extreme as … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Caravaggio, david rosenberg, David Teniers, garry wills, Gershom Scholem, Harold Bloom, Isaac Luria, jack miles, Jan van Eyck, jan van eyck ghent altarpiece, Jean Leon Gerome, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Nicolas Poussin, Sigmund Freud | Leave a comment

frankl: meaning as a sheep in wolfs clothing

Posted on December 19, 2011 by Dave

Logotherapy based on the idea that meaning is an objective reality, contrary to various forms of illusion, arising and conjured up within the perceptual capabilities of the observer. Is it true? It would seem that objective reality is an oxymoron. … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged ebner, irvin yalom, Martin Buber, Michelangelo Moses, monroe stein, Nicolas Poussin, noimetic psychology, rollo may, Sigmund Freud, Slavoj Zizek, Thomas Cole art, Viktor Frankl | Leave a comment

Facing up: masked to uncover the other

Posted on November 29, 2011 by Dave

Maybe Levinas was just yelling into the canyon, hearing his echo, catching the attention of a few gophers going about their business in the void. However, the implications of what he was expressing was quite profound, nothing less than a … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Arthur Schopenhauer, Diane Arbus, Diego Velazquez, doon arbus, emmanuel levinas, Gustave Courbet, Jean Paul Sartre, joel-peter witkin, Martin Buber, Marvin Israel, Nicolas Poussin, patricia bosworth, Simone Weil, william todd schultz | Leave a comment

your money or your life: hoarding gold with the rat men

Posted on November 20, 2011 by Dave

Currency Wars.It’s not called the gloomy science for nothing. A new book by economist James Rickards is scary stuff. Almost science fiction. It does lend oneself to Weimar like visions of the collapse of fiat currency and receiving wages on … Continue reading →