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Tag Archives: Pieter Bruegel
have utopia will travel
and to the nightmare. Dissatisfied with the world as it exists, people have always tried to imagine the world as it might become. Time, though, seems to have darkened out utopian visions in more ways than one…. For nearly two … Continue reading
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Tagged Francis Bacon, Francis Godwin, Francis Godwin Man in the Moone, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Pieter Bruegel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Plato, Plato and Diogenes, Plato Republic, Sir Thomas More
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leading the blind
Different stages of falling. Trust, surprise and then shock. The Church in the background is a symbol to invoke the risks in straying from the church? Perhaps. Bruegel demonstrates that the natural, uncivilized realm of man is a constituent element … Continue reading
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Tagged cardinal granvelle, Gov. Rick Perry, Masaccio, mayken coecke, Pieter Bruegel, pieter bruegel parable of the blind, Pieter Brueghel, pieter brueghel the younger, rick perry texas, Rudy Rucker, sam lloyd, William Carlos Williams
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haywain: pulling at straws of pessimism
The Haywain by Hieronymus Bosch is almost as complex as the Garden of Earthly Delights. It carries a similar message; that of desperate pessimism. Even in the darkest of the Christian books of the Bible Hell exists for the damned, … Continue reading
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Tagged bill stover solyndra, bosch the haywain, brian harrison solyndra, Charles de Tolnay, christopher jesus ferguson, Ernst Gombrich, Erwin Panofsky, Guy Debord, Hieronymous Bosch, howard lederer full tilt poker, joseph heath, Lord Byron, meir margalit, Michael Moore, occupy wall street, Pieter Bruegel, thomas frank the baffler, Thorstein Veblen
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sammy’s gone.real gone: return of the hunters
The distant is in the near.The hunt is somewhat of a cultural gauge. There are always subtle shifts in the hunting motif. From brutal and tiring affair to the trappings of ritual, pomp and circumstance, the trophy has always assumed … Continue reading
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Tagged Christopher Hitchens, don gray art, Eli Siegel, glenn greenwald, Jeff Greenwald, Martin Buber, michelle goldberg, paulo freire, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Pieter Bruegel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Samuel Johnson, spielberg munich, Stefan Kanfer
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go to hell: gimme shelter
It was the profoundly pessimistic, mad, hopeless, irredeemable, almost insane world of Hieronymus Bosch. Very few paintings in the history of art have so puzzled viewers as the enigmatic, “The Garden of Earthly Delights”; in our own hedonistic, instantly gratifying … Continue reading
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Tagged Bosch Garden of Earthly Delights, Erasmus, Fraenger, Franz Kafka, Hieronymous Bosch, Laurinda Dixon, Leonardo Da Vinci, Max Horkheimer, Pieter Bruegel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Sebastien Brant Ship of Fools, Walter Benjamin, Wilhelm Fraenger
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growing up absurd: disavowals of innocence
In Jan Miense Molenaer’s “The Smoker” from the 1620’s, viewers have an up-close regard on merrymakers, where children are inserted as metaphors for adult behavior. There is a capturing of the spirit of the figures through actions and facial expressions.The … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Art
Tagged Adele Enersen, Charles Baudelaire, Fragonard, Frans Hals, Honoré Fragonard, Jan Miense Molenaar, Jan Miense Molenaer, Jan Steen, Nina maria Kleivan, Norman Rockwell, Pieter Bruegel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Richard Halpern, Walter Benjamin
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bosch: strawberry fields nor ever
A cursing of those fanatical, demented, crazed…tormentors and executioners….The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch has certainly puzzled viewers. It is one of the most mysterious and enigmatic paintings ever done. Only five hundred years later has its meaning … Continue reading
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Tagged Erasmus, Erich Fromm, Ernst Bloch, Hieronymous Bosch, Laurinda Dixon, martha Clarke Garden of Earthly Delights, Max Weber, Michel Foucault, Pieter Bruegel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Pieter Brueghel, Salvador dali, Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin
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free slaves on the ship of fools
Or stories about people sailing around their soul. Was Hieronymus Bosch’s “Garden of Earthly Delights” as puzzling as it claims to be. Perhaps only now, in our era of instant gratification, impatience for pleasure and fascination for a world in … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous
Tagged Albrecht Durer, Antonin Artaud, Erasmus, Francisco Goya, Friedrich Nietzsche, Hieronymous Bosch, martha Clarke Garden of Earthly Delights, Michel Foucault, Pieter Bruegel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Stanley Meisler
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