Tag Archives: Philip Coppens

tunnel vision: in like flynn

Posted on October 26, 2012 by Dave

There are lots of days when the earth stands still. Motionless. Inert. Lifeless. Of course, its not for pleasure, or sport, or enjoyment; it has a revelatory characteristic, inextricably linked to the divine. It is holy and in the service … Continue reading →

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bernini falling into the baroque

Posted on September 20, 2012 by Dave

Baroque master. Bernini. He beheld the roots of heaven and found they were made of stone…. Bernini lived on to serve three more popes,but they made fewer demands on his talent, than the first five popes did. Bernini was to … Continue reading →

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bernini: esoteric rome

Posted on September 20, 2012 by Dave

After a lumpy and bumpy sojourn in Paris for six months, Bernini had realized that the locus of power had shifted to France; Louis XIV had assumed the mantle of chief patron of the arts as an expression and extension … Continue reading →

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surreal values: spiritually adrift in the value traps

Posted on August 28, 2011 by Dave

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 →

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sequence and simultaneity

Posted on March 14, 2011 by Dave

In Hiernonymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights, the triptych format creates a play between the panels. It subverts traditonal juxtapositions that occur within the same space such as background and foreground. The first impression upon looking at these framed … Continue reading →

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A NORTHERN WIZARD: Writing For Love, Money & “The Great Unknowns”

Posted on November 14, 2010 by Dave

Like Dickens and Balzac, he wrote because he could not help writing, but he did not think that the chief business of life was to be put into literature; and much as he appreciated his contemporary fame, he does not appear to have cared … Continue reading →

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SOLILOQUY of the DREAMING ARTIST: Two Natures in One Person

Posted on October 28, 2010 by Dave

During the Renaissance a new notion of the individual was created. This identity was formed through knowledge based on the relationship of the individual to the world in which they lived. At the time, new forms of knowledge were being … Continue reading →

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MANTEGNA & CULTURAL REVOLUTION: Psychology of Perspective

Posted on October 28, 2010 by Dave

After all not to create only, or found only, But to bring perhaps from afar what is already founded, To give it our own identity, average, limitless, free, To fill the: gross the torpid bulk with vital religious fire, Not … Continue reading →

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On the Beat Box with King Tut

Posted on November 16, 2009 by Dave

Tutankhamun in Nubia? Pyramids from the other side of the tracks. Badass pyramid construction where the white folks don’t go. While genteel Egypte had its flashes of semitic and medittereanean culture, the Kingdom of Kush (700Bc-250 Ad ) was very … Continue reading →