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Tag Archives: Pablo Picasso
fracturing the bow
In spite of distortion, objects in an expressionistic painting are still recognizable. However, in abstraction, objects tend to lose their identity as objects and take on an existence as pure form. An example is George Braque’s “Musical Forms” which is … Continue reading
meeting of kings
Unlike most of the sculptors of his era, William King rejoiced in the human figure as a subject. The witty caricatures with the long and lean results were departures from the “form divine” but their exaggerations emphatically illustrate la comedie … Continue reading
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Tagged Dennis Oppenheim, Pablo Picasso, William King, William King sculpture
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which picasso?
What made Picasso unique in the history of art is the degree to which he became what may be described as an orchestrator of the public attitude toward his work, expertly creating sympathetic responses to his various successive styles. These … Continue reading
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Tagged Donald Kuspit, Dora Maar, Madame Pickwick, Meyer Schapiro, Pablo Picasso, Titian
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picasso: life as phases
Picasso was always, like a playwright, constantly “in dialogue” with his audience, ever needing the audience, sensing it and feeling it out like a lover pursuing the object of his affections. He was, in many ways, a metteur en scene, … Continue reading
eureka process
How does a scientist make his discoveries? How does a poet find his metaphors? And for that matter, how does a chimpanzee get at a banana? Arthur Koestler said it is done through the Eureka process. The act of creation, … Continue reading
art for the sake of creative destruction
Consciousness of the all-mighty dollar is pretty pervasive, even overwhelming. In the modern art world it informs aesthetic and spiritual content like everything else in society, conquering art such that art itself is a pure commodity, a sub-species of money … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Andy Warhol, Bob Dylan, Damien Hirst, David Ganek, Eli Broad, Francis Bacon art, Guy Debord, Jeff Koons, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marc Quinn, Pablo Picasso, Randy Newman, Stephen Wynn, Steven A. Cohen, willem de Kooning
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darwin: throwing the dice at blind chance
…To some, the implications of Darwin’s theory were negative and desolating. The whole earth no longer proclaimed the glory of the Lord. Paradoxically, in revealing the closeness of man’s links with the rest of creation, Darwin seemed to have cutt … Continue reading