Tag Archives: Pablo Picasso
mrs. simon: patron before a mirror
Mrs. Simon. Of all the Guggenheim art patrons, Mrs. Simon Guggenheim was less unconventional in her ways and means of philanthropy than other members of the family whose ventures and behavior were often deeply eccentric. Troublingly so. Mrs. Simon Guggenheim … Continue reading
wright time wrong place: buy the cow
Frank Lloyd Wright was a foe of the academicians in his youth. He later grew to disdain painting and sculpture generally and to see architecture as the only art. The end result of all this was the Guggenheim Museum. A … Continue reading
pushing their hubris everywhere
by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) i guess this is an exercise in whining. so bear with me. over my entire career ive done and AWFUL LOT of work for small arts groups and non-profits and community organizations. i guess you … Continue reading
pantomine for peace
Its not that evident to grasp Jane Fonda’s adherence to the Left, the kind of knee-jerk conventional responses that seem impersonal and remote. One has to wonder if her committment to the Left, much like Picasso, was really a subscription … Continue reading
absolute shower of gold
Van Gogh spent a little more than two years in Arles and its environs, painting the burning light and indelible shadows of Arles… The city languished under the Provencal sun, adding to its collection of interesting buildings during the Renaissance … Continue reading
flip floating away: mechanical uncertainty
It was the day when the public’s necessity to travel to look at art was over, at least temporarily. Dynamic forms were literally translated into motion; in their battery-propelled trek toward ever-changing interrelationships, these objects could eventually and perhaps inevitably … Continue reading
every grain of sand
Picasso called his painting, “the sum of destructions”, Marcel Duchamp went further into conceptual form with the ready-made, banal objects such as urinals converted into works of art. This was the so called “shock of the new” the beginning of … Continue reading
the kids are alright?
The spiritual in art. Is it important? Is innovation and form enough? Traditional images had outworn their time, but did it mean that a maturing spiritualsm had to be discarded as well? That an invisible, transformative energy had to be … Continue reading