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

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mix and match tradition

When a Latin-American artist sculpted the Man on Horseback, one might reasonably expect either a political paean or a stinging satire. Yet neither is the case with the barrel-chested, four-wheeled steed somberly mounted by both George Washington and Simon Bolivar, … Continue reading

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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

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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

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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

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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

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artful banker

David Rockefeller’s buying program at the Chase Manhattan Bank made it the greatest corporate patron of art, and started the game of corporate art collecting. It was the thing to do if you were a big blue chip American businessman … Continue reading

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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

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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

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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

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