Tag Archives: Picasso

DANCE NOW PAY LATER: LIQUIDITY TRAP BALLET

Posted on October 7, 2010 by Dave

The consequences of John Maynard Keynes.He conceived the economic machinery that runs our lives. His brilliant engine, despite overhauls and tune-ups continues to run erratically. Is it the driver or the roads?… Keynes identified the economic importance of animal spirits. … Continue reading →

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WASTELAND:THE EARTH IS FIXED AT THE CENTER OF THE EGO

Posted on October 1, 2010 by Dave

In this decayed hole among the mountains, In the faint moonlight, the grass is singing Over the tumbled graves, about the chapel There is the empty chapel, only the wind’s home. It has no windows, and the door swings, Dry … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous | Tagged Albert Einstein, Anthony Marr, Carl Jung, Copernicus, Corrado Balducci, Dante Alighieri, Francisco Goya, Galileo, Georges Lemaitre, Giordano Bruno, Guy Consolmagno, Ikenna Dieke, Jacques Derrida, Jaroslav Pelikan, Johannes Kepler, John J. Kessler, John P. Anderson, Joseph Conrad, Lee Spiegel, Martin Buber, Matteo D'Amico, Peter Paul Rubens, Peter Wilberg, Picasso, Raymond Lull, Saint Augustine, Scott Horton, Sigmund Freud, T.S. Eliot, Taylor Adkins, Taylor Adkins Speculative heresy, Umberto Eco, Uri Davis, Zaccharia Sitchin, Zotan Lendvai | Leave a comment

CEZANNE: "THE WORST OF A BAD BUNCH"

Posted on August 12, 2010 by Dave

“This radically new approach is perhaps most vividly apparent in Cézanne’s landscapes and even in some of his still lifes, where a mere patchwork of textures coloured shapes is worked into a picture, upon which the eye and mind can … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Auguste Renoir, Brice Marden, Camille Pissarro, Cezanne, Dr. Beth Harris, Dr. Stephen Zucker, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Emile Bernard, Emile Zola, G.E. Moore, George Moore, Henri Matisse, Hortense Ficquet, Jessica Fields, John House, Kathleen Adler, Kurt Badt, Louis Leroy, Meyer Schapiro, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Peter Morrell, Picasso, Pissarro, Richard Brettell, Richard W. Murphy | Leave a comment

THE ENIGMA OF THOSE RIGHT-LEFT REVERSALS

Posted on July 21, 2010 by Dave

Does the right hand know what the left hand is doing? ”The reason for the paradox is that the left hand’s way of knowing things is different from the right hand’s way of knowing. The difference can be discerned in … Continue reading →

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''F'' IS FOR FAKE AND FOOTBALL

Posted on June 24, 2010 by Dave

Did he or did he not touch the ball with his hand? Of course he took a dive; it had to be fake. He was allegedly hit in the shin ,but was clutching his shoulder.A Pain in the butt, but … Continue reading →

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SAVAGERY SMOTHERED IN LOVE

Posted on March 25, 2010 by Dave

“Personally, I believe very much in values of savagery; I mean: instinct, passion, mood, violence, madness.” — Jean Dubuffet, 1951.Jean Dubuffet ( 1901-1985 ). A visionary of modern anti-culture. He had a private Art Brut museum, where the world’s largest … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Art Brut, Claude Manet, Clement Greenberg, Francisco Goya, Grandma Moses, Jean Dubuffet, Jean Paul Sartre, Manet, Max Loreau, Pablo Picasso, Picasso, Velazquez | Leave a comment

PORTRAIT OF A TUG OF WAR

Posted on March 17, 2010 by Dave

Not every great age produced portraits. The Greeks made almost none, except on their coins, until the time of Alexander the Great, whose legions ranged over the world from India to Egypt. Alexander had his own private portrait artist, the … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Alexander the Great, Augustus John, Cezanne, Claude Manet, Claude Monet, Daguerre, Frederigo da Montefeltro, Graham Sutherland, Ivan Albright, Ivan Le Lorraine Albright, Joseph E. Widener, Karsh photographs, Leonardo Da Vinci, Lysippus Sculptor, Mrs. Leigh Block, National Gallery of Art Washington, Picasso, Piero della Francesca, Rembrandt, Titian, Van Gogh, Velasquez, Vincent Van Gogh, Winston Churchill, Yousef Karsh | 2 Comments

A FETISH FOR MOVEMENT

Posted on March 5, 2010 by Dave

In 1973, Rowland Emett( 1906-1990 ) created The Aqua Horological Tintinnabulator, more popularly known as the Victoria Centre clock, or the Emmet Clock. The unique water-powered structure is an icon of Nottingham and a popular meeting place for shoppers.Mr Emett also … Continue reading →

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AUTHENTICITY AND AESTHETICS

Posted on March 1, 2010 by Dave

Snobbery has its own aesthetics. If a work of art seems identical to the naked eye, why should an original Picasso end up in the living room, a reproduction on the stairway and a forgery in the recycle bin? In … Continue reading →

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PICASSO & WOMEN IN WAITING

Posted on February 28, 2010 by Dave

”The Europeans had shown the way; yet the avant-garde American artists had to work desperately to break away from the influence of the School of Paris and especially from that Olympian, Pablo Picasso. Like the Collective Unconscious or the dreams … Continue reading →