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Tag Archives: Salvador dali
melancholy scribbles and drips: one dribble at a line
Mere doodling of only psychological interest? Even then. After its initial surge of authenticity could abstract expressionism be sustained? The mendaciousness of the art industry to hype this style knew no bounds. Like Marcel Duchamp asserting that everyone is an … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged american abstract expressionism, Andre Breton, Arshile Gorky, atelier 17, Clement Greenberg, J.A.D. Ingres, Jean Cocteau, Marcel Duchamp, roberto matta, Salvador dali, Sigmund Freud, stanley william hayter, Surrealism, Tony Matta
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loose lips sink ships: uncertainty principal
As Clausewitz postulated, war is simply a means for a pre-determined purpose. A continuation of policy which implies a rather solid and usually sordid link between politics and war. There have been newer theories, which may actually be clever repackaging … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Albert Einstein, Alexander Cockburn, Andres Serrano, Andy Warhol, bill lewis art, Carl von Clausewitz, Howard Zinn, Julian Assange, kirsten cale, martin van creveld, Noam Chomsky, Norman Rockwell, pearl harbor, pearl harbor anniversary, pearl harbor attack, Salvador dali, Sigmund Freud, thomas lacquer
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heavy wadders
Crap. Rubbish. Shit. A higher truth about our world: all baloney. The underclass image of kitsch rubbish is simply part of the capitalist upper class. An accessory item. An option to be sold short. The ethical cachet of defiant rebelliousness … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Warhol, arielle bier, Dadaism, Eli Kazan, Erich Fromm, Georges Bataille, John Baldessari, John Paulson, Jonathan Swift, karl abraham, katharine harvey, Marcel Duchamp, Marlon Brando, michael parekowhai, Milan Kundera, Murakami art, Salvador dali, Thorstein Veblen
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trojan horse
As a political metaphor, the Trojan Horse is usually perceived as some kind of malignant virus, socialism mixed with radical jihad, anti-poverty advocates and Bernie Saunders groupies and Emma Goldman legacy projects that through subterfuge and guile under the greater … Continue reading
surreal values: spiritually adrift in the value traps
In spite of recounting at length her zealotry for “trash” and “kitsch,” which she famously claimed to prefer over serious minded films, Seligman never calls Kael to task for disingenuously backing away from her clarion call of the 1960s. “When … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Andre Breton, Clement Greenberg, Diego Rivera, Douglas Cooper, Harold Rosenberg, Henri Matisse, Jackson Pollock, Lawrence Alloway, Mark Tobey, max kozloff, Oskar Kokoschka, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Paul Gauguin, Pauline Kael, Philip Coppens, Salvador dali, Sigmund Freud, Surrealism, Vincent Van Gogh, Wassily Kandinsky
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PET without pi
…Dali knew that with the rejection of reason preached by the modernists, surrealists would not be able to grow into an understanding of the subconscious since this would end up in a depreciation of the power of intellect to comprehend … Continue reading
the dove: pecking the juice out of life
There is more than a little irony, incoherent on the surface, that Picasso, a lifelong communist and aetheist was the beloved poster image icon of the American art establishment; the godfather of abstract expressionism and the tidal wave of non-aesthetic … Continue reading
unconscious aggression: the blind minotaur
“When one has no character, one must have a method.” (Camus ) How can one reconcile such an atrocious human being with art? Unless its an art that glorifies the ugly, the sadistic; an impulse drunk on misogyny that craved … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged Albert Camus, Clement Greenberg, Douglas Cooper, Friedrich Nietzsche, h. blum, kincaid paintings, Lyonel Feininger, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Richard Wagner, roland penrose, Salvador dali, salvador dali and picasso, Vincent Van Gogh, walter kaufmann
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hallmark greetings: slouching towards middle america
by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com) i once had the opportunity to visit the hallmark card company headquarters in kansas city, missouri. they actually PAID me handsomely to drive over (i lived across the state in st. louis at the time) and … Continue reading
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