Tag Archives: paula rego

new oldism: away from para-art

Posted on March 24, 2012 by Dave

As a marketing term its not too sexy, a “new old master” lacks the punch and novelty, but it does express a direction for art that reverses the purely conceptual infinity that Marcel Duchamp bestowed on the world with the … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged arthur danto, brenda zlamany, Clement Greenberg, Eric Fischl, Giorgio de Chirico, james valerio, jenny saville, julie heffernan, Marcel Duchamp, max j. friedlander, Michael Balint, paula rego, sol LeWitt, vincent desiderio, william gass | Leave a comment

running of the bulls of babylon

Posted on January 16, 2012 by Dave

When extremes support each other. Fundamentally hypocritical bourgeois values? Or, are talking about two fundamentally different approaches to reinforcing the continuity of patriarchy and misogyny that defies rational classicism arisen from the Enlightenment or the irrational attributes of human nature, … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged arturo di modica, bruce porter, christopher caudwell, daniel pick, hilary harkness, Jean Leon Gerome, martin van creveld, olek knitting bull, paula rego, Slavoj Zizek, steven metz | Leave a comment

cut off from the past: and a long way from home

Posted on September 14, 2011 by Dave

There is always much talk of the occult in art,the dark side of modern art, the falsification to no end, the artifice, the signs of horror, the negation of beauty and above all, the inability to love. We can think … Continue reading →