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slow worker
from Giorgio Vasari’s account of Leonardo and his work on the Last Supper, his unconventional disposition, his salesmanship and the perplexing bent of secular humanism which was disconcerting to the defenders of the faith…. He also painted in Milan, for … Continue reading
paranoid spittled walls
This exaltation of the violent compulsive spontaneity so reified by the Dada movement, Andre Breton and Max Ernst in particular was put to almost absurd extremes into an effort to appropriate Leonardo Da Vinci into their nihilistic process of attacking … Continue reading
Renaissance dali: the man with the golden mean
Nuclear mysticism. Merging the classical technique of the Renaissance with the modernism of science and a generous sprinkling of the Golden Mean. A rearguard action that recognized the decline of art while simultaneously denying it. Duchamp saw to that with … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Andre Breton, Giorgio de Chirico, Guillaume Apollinaire, Leonardo Da Vinci, philippe halsman, Salvador dali, salvador dali leda atomica, Sigmund Freud, sigmund freud leonardo, Surrealism
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closet painter
A “flamboyant homosexual” as Dan Brown labeled Leonardo is misleading and irrelevant unless the author was searching for a DNA code for gay tendencies and not the other trail of splatter leading to the holy grail. Although a kind of … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged cynthia fuchs epstein, Da Vinci Burlington House Cartoon, da Vinci London Cartoon, dan brown da vinci code, Donald Kuspit, Giorgio Vasari, Jonathan Jones Guardian, klaus herding, Leo Bersani, Peter Paul Rubens, Sigmund Freud, sigmund freud leonardo
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