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Tag Archives: Robert Rauschenberg
the “oedipal” murder and on to a new era
by Art Chantry: most people try to link my thinking to andy warhol. i get that. my stuff looks a lot like andy’s work becasue we’re both pulling from the same galaxy of americana. he and i had a lot … Continue reading
prisoner of love: escaping the gatekeeper
Attacking the bourgeois values, but the greater the assault the more apparent that the author, in his own particular way, was part of the elite, canonized as cultural commodity himself, like Burroughs and Ginsberg, an icon, a spokesman for articulating … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged Caravaggio, Donald Kuspit, Jasper Johns, Jean Genet, Jerry Saltz, lari pittman, Lord Byron, nigel williams BBC, Oscar Wilde, pierre bourdieu, Robert Crumb, Robert Mapplethorpe, Robert Rauschenberg, the maids 1974, William Burroughs
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typecast: like hiring a dentist to do brain surgery
by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com) Earlier today when i was writing about the wonders of labelmaker, i mention that (before computers) artists did lousy type? well this little essay is all about the official typeface of the art world: duro stencil. … Continue reading
walking the dog from right to left: seeing the in-between
Does dog really exist? Has anyone ever gone mad not being able to think of something to think about?…There is something much deeper in operation here than a simple, albeit innovative mastery of logic and mathematical reasoning. These are verbal … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged alice cooper, Antonin Artaud, boris lurie, cy twombley, david tudor, dyslexia, jaakko hintikka, Jan van Eyck, Jasper Johns, john denver, Josef Albers, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Marc Chagall, Martin Buber, Robert Rauschenberg, Walter Gropius, William Butler Yeats
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first clever then banal: empty magic
The nihilistic hollowness of Baldessari; the emotional and intellectual vacuum at its core. The implied sadism and hatred of humanity.Is this a kind of messianic art , one that allows for an inverse association between what is profane and the … Continue reading
modernism: where do we go from here?
Modernism and artistic expression in the face of the human condition Art Chantry: Art@artchantry.com For my money, the philosophical dialog of ‘modernism’ is probably the most important and the single most interesting and intriguing intellectual/creative discussion of the last century, … Continue reading
TAROT GARDEN: Daddy & Arcanes of the Dark Psyche
Not a typical garden….. at least an Eden, chaotic and radical whose gatekeeper was the intuitive feminine whose charged powers of women were absorbed with the magical and spiritual power of objects. Niki De Saint Phalle kept delving deep into … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Alexander Calder, Antonio Gaudi, Betty Friedan, Douglas Eby, Dr. Stephen Diamond, Jasper Johns, Jean Tinguely, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Kyla McDonald, Marella Agnelli, Niki de Saint Phalle, Robert Rauschenberg, Simone de Beauvoir, Tarot Garden
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LOFT STORY
”Pop art’s origins are in Britain, specifically with Richard Hamilton, Eduardo Paolozzi and the Independent Group. Unlike their American counter-parts, these Brit pop artists didn’t have a critical figure like a Steinberg or Greenberg to co-opt or codify them. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Abstract expressionism, Andy Warhol, Astromen, Claes Oldenburg, Eduardo Paolozzi, Henri Rousseau, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Mimi Gross, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cadmus, pop art, Ralph Bakshi, Red Grooms, Reginald Marsh, Richard Hamilton, Robert Crumb, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, willem de Kooning
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STREET ART DOWN PAVEMENT LESS TRAVELED
Jean Dubuffet ( 1901-1985 ) was one of the few artists devoted to ”keeping it real” and this involved a deliberately anti-psychological and anti-personal approach to art.All of his work stands aesthetically somewhere between the beautiful and the awkward, the … Continue reading
Posted in Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Alfred Jarry, Antonin Artaud, Claes Oldenburg, Dubuffet, French Pop Art, Frieze magazine, Gary Panter, Gaugin, Jean Dubuffet, Julian Schnabel, Keith Haring, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Maurice de Vlaminck, Mike Kelley, pop art, Robert Rauschenberg, Sophie Berrebi, Van Gogh
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