Tag Archives: Robert Delaunay

TROPICS OF THE MIND: Forgotten Memories of an Ancestral Darkness

Posted on October 21, 2010 by Dave

His is the simple and yet incredible story of an unworldly petit bourgeois who painted in an introverted, almost autistic manner. He himself cannot have been fully aware of what he was doing; he did not distinguish between his pictures … Continue reading →

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RUNNING WITH LIONS:The Enigma of “The Idiot”

Posted on October 21, 2010 by Dave

For all of them Henri Rousseau was the “venerable child” of art, the great primitive who lived and worked beyond the reach of damaging speculation and sophistication, at one with himself, original, as nature had made him. Conscious, deliberate action … Continue reading →

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ROUSSEAU & THE COUCH IN THE JUNGLE: Landscape of Hallucination

Posted on October 20, 2010 by Dave

It’s been said, oversimplistically but sympathetically, that “he didn’t know the rules well enough to break them”. But of course there are no rules in the kingdom of the imagination.He knew he was a babe in the woods of high … Continue reading →

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MAXED OUT ON DADA: AVOIDING THE DEGENERACY OF GAINFUL EMPLOYMENT

Posted on July 27, 2010 by Dave

”…it becomes obvious that Max Ernst’s brilliant accomplishment consisted of having developed a syntax by which the employment of this found material could be controlled. For all their independence from traditional artistic techniques and the imitation of nature, it is … Continue reading →