Tag Archives: Piet Mondrian

holiday grind: intellect confuses intuition

Pickwick Promo’s in the spirit of Piet Mondrian. “The emotion of beauty is always obscured by the appearance of the object. Therefore the object must be eliminated from the picture. (Piet Mondrian)…Every true artist has been inspired more by the … Continue reading

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t.s. eliot: obsessed with meat

T.S. Eliot a reactionary? The charges of fascism were of course brought against Eliot, and also against Yeats, Lawrence, Pound, and Wyndham Lewis for that ,matter, part of the romantic tug towards purity and blood one can imagine, the kind … Continue reading

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the paranormal: does what matter

…Now there is a vast amount of testimony to psi phenomena. Freud and Jung took their existence for granted; they fascinated William James; and as Arthur Koestler pointed out in his The Roots of Coincidence, the British Society for Psychical … Continue reading

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mondrian : boogie woogie underneath

Is looking at a reproduction of art an adequate substitute for the original? According to the theory of Arthur Koestler it is, but there is an apposing theory that art is not merely graphic design or easily transferable through mechanical … Continue reading

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ever since Abraham gave Ishmael the boot

There has been a couple of articles over the past several months in Haaretz, the Israeli secular left wing daily that try to confront the issue of co-existence with the Palestinians and of course the larger Islamic world from the … Continue reading

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the shovels are ready: funeral time

It didn’t take Nate Silver to inform our electoral sensibilities that the Republicans would get their asses wiped. Or as Bob Dylan once sang, “I don’t need the weatherman to know which way the wind is blowing.”  Lame candidates, too … Continue reading

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brand name incidental relationships

The transformation of beauty into claims of prestige? What if there was no super-wealthy class to cultivate and consume art and hence be able to draw invidious comparisons with their peers? Veblen asserted that wealth display and the splurging of … Continue reading

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degenerate art : fear of the everyday hucksters

Signs of pretense. Pretend art where the sentiments are an elaborate fake far removed from genuine emotion. Something like what Freud called the joke in art in his study of Michelangelo’s Moses but now on a grand, industrial scale of … Continue reading

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business is business

….Courtesy of Brainiac Paul Hamilton: 1st of November 1979: BBC Radio 1, a Saturday afternoon magazine show called ‘Rock On’ (WOOO!), and Kevin Godley & Lol Creme are discussing their new LP ‘Freeze Frame’ with host Richard Skinner. Some excepts. … Continue reading

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is it art without the spiritual?

Is art, art, when there is no spiritual content? Or is it simply at the level of a visual language that descends to the level of advertising and marketing management? Does the absence of the embodiment of the spiritual mean … Continue reading

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