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Tag Archives: Paul Cezanne
surreal values: spiritually adrift in the value traps
In spite of recounting at length her zealotry for “trash” and “kitsch,” which she famously claimed to prefer over serious minded films, Seligman never calls Kael to task for disingenuously backing away from her clarion call of the 1960s. “When … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Andre Breton, Clement Greenberg, Diego Rivera, Douglas Cooper, Harold Rosenberg, Henri Matisse, Jackson Pollock, Lawrence Alloway, Mark Tobey, max kozloff, Oskar Kokoschka, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Paul Gauguin, Pauline Kael, Philip Coppens, Salvador dali, Sigmund Freud, Surrealism, Vincent Van Gogh, Wassily Kandinsky
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unconscious aggression: the blind minotaur
“When one has no character, one must have a method.” (Camus ) How can one reconcile such an atrocious human being with art? Unless its an art that glorifies the ugly, the sadistic; an impulse drunk on misogyny that craved … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged Albert Camus, Clement Greenberg, Douglas Cooper, Friedrich Nietzsche, h. blum, kincaid paintings, Lyonel Feininger, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Richard Wagner, roland penrose, Salvador dali, salvador dali and picasso, Vincent Van Gogh, walter kaufmann
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a rite of spring: the modern mindset of primitive hysteria
Pagan rites. It demanded music that would be melodic but simple, spontaneous and immodest. More tribal rite that bourgeois concert. Stravinsky was completing his Firebird ballet in 1910 when he allegedly experienced a vision; a girl chosen to dance herself … Continue reading
sign of the times: tainted logic
The Aryan myth began inconspicuously as a minor issue in comparative linguistics at the end of the eighteenth-century and then assumed a life of its own of disproportionate dimensions in the romantic age that morphed into a racial theory of … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Adolf Ziegler, Arno Breker, Edouard Manet, Fassbinder, Gustave Courbet, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Ivo Saliger, Joseph Thorak, Paul Cezanne, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Sontag, Susan Sontag, Walter Benjamin
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MATISSE: Cut,Paste & Taste
That Matisse would abandon oil painting and adopt a new technique so late in his career was a surprise to many people, although it need not have been. Paper cutouts were, of course, convenient for a semi-invalid, but Matisse had … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Andre Derain, Brian O'Doherty, Fauvism, Gertrude Stein, Gustave Moreau, Henri Matisse, Henri-Edmond Cross, Hilary Spurling, Hilton Kramer, jack Flam, Jennifer Sachs Samet, John Elderfield, Laura McPhee, Matisse Paper cut-out, Maurice de Vlaminck, Michelle Leight, Odilon Redon, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Paul Gauguin, Paul Signac, Raoul Dufy, Riva Castleman, Van Gogh
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PICASSO’S REFLEX ANXIETY :2 1/2 Men & Close Encounter of the 3 1/2 Kind
Perhaps more than any other artist, Pablo Picasso depicted the dark side; the Darth Vader of the human psyche, as well as the positive and the beautiful…This departure by Picasso from the so-called “civilized” and classical influences of Western art … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Riding, Andre Breton, Carl Goldstein, Darth Vader, David Galenson, Donald Kuspit, Edmond Fortier, Edward Fry, Ernst Junger, Fernande Olivier, Friedrich Nietzsche, Georges Braque, Gertrude Stein, Guillaume Apollinaire, Henri Matisse, J.K. Huysmans, jack Flam, John Berger, Jonathan Richman, Jonathan Richman The Modern Lovers, Laura Ball, Leo Steinberg, Max Kosloff, Megan Meighan, Michele Leight, Norman Mailer, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Pete Hamill, Richard Hamilton, Robert J. Sternberg, Robert Smithson, Rosalind Krauss, Satie, Sigmund Freud, Stravinsky, Vladimir Tatlin
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PICASSO & ANXIETY IN 3D: Me, Myself and Aye Yay
Did Picasso show the hollowness of the everyday objects in his world because he disbelieved them, even as he acknowledged their existence? Although Picasso’s “Demoiselles D’Avignon” is clearly about Picasso’s own desire it is also an expression of his fear?, … Continue reading
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Tagged Donald Kuspit, Dr. Beth Harris, Dr. Steven Zucker, Ernst Cassirer, Gertrude Stein, Guillaume Apollinaire, Leo Steinberg, Marquis de Sade, Max Kosloff, Michelle Leight, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Pete Hamill, Susan Sontag, Suzanne Langer, William Rubin
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PICASSO, Visual Violence and the Unbinding of Desire: JUST BECAUSE
After the first World War, Andre Breton came to Picasso’s studio….. saw Les Demoiselles d’Avignon and recognised it as the definitive modern masterpiece. Breton, the leader of the surrealists, saw in it a painting about the revolutionary menace of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Breton, Arthur Rimbaud, Charles Baudelaire, Donald Kuspit, Dr. Beth Harris, Dr. Steven Zucker, El Greco, Felix Feneon, Gertrude Stein, Henri Matisse, Ingres, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Leo Stein, Leo Steinberg, Marcel Duchamp, Michael Kirby, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Paul Verlaine, Sigmund Freud, Stephane Mallarme, Titian, Tony Grillo
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PICASSO : Distortion and Ruthless attack on GOOD TASTE
Was it just new forms for old feelings? Are new feelings even possible? And were not these forms somehow recycled and repackaged from pre-Christian era civilizations? In any event, the innovations of modern art cannot be explained adequately on formal … Continue reading
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Tagged Christopher Green, Clement Greenberg, Donald Kuspit, Dr. Beth Harris, Dr. Steven Zucker, Georges Braque, Gertrude Stein, Henri Matisse, Hilary Spurling, Jacques Emile Blanche, John Canaday, John Golding, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Leo Steinberg, Michelle Leight, Pablo Picasso, Patricia Leighton, Paul Cezanne, Pete Hamill, Robert Luongo, Roger Fry, Tamar Garb, Van Gogh
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PAPER TIGERS : Hunting Traces of Solitude And GAIETY
In art sometimes, the more things change, the more nothing is the same. The paper cutouts were Matisse’s final flowering; a last expression of this articulation of traces of solitude and gaiety, what he called “the eternal conflict between drawing … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Andre Derain, Christopher Cook, Edmond Variel, Fauves, Friesz, Georges Braque, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Henri Matisse, Hilary Spurling, Hilton Kramer, jack Flam, Jennifer Sachs Samet, John Canaday, John Elderfield, Laura McPhee, Maurice de Vlaminck, Michelle Leight, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Paul Gauguin, Picasso, Raoul Dufy, Riva Castleman, Sergei Shchukin, Ted Nash
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