Tag Archives: Sigmund Freud

utopia: loitering in Icaria

Posted on April 26, 2012 by Dave

Not content with the world as it is, people have always tried to imagine a world as it might become. it seems that old man time though has served to darken utopian visions in more ways than one… From the … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Charles Fourier, Etienne Cabet, Francis Bacon, Herbert Marcuse, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Karl Marx, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Morelly, Rene Chateaubriand, Sigmund Freud, The Age of Reason, Tommaso Campanella, Utopian Socialists | Leave a comment

taking back the keys to now time

Posted on April 16, 2012 by Dave

To break the pattern of everything continuing as usual. This kind of eternal catastrophe characterized by a boundless domination of the mythical subsuming and devouring everything in its path. Its the Kafka problematic where the fall, original sin is ingeniously … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Aertgen van Leyden, Amona expulsion, Amona violence, Franz Kafka, Gerrit de Wet, Gush Katif museum, Israel Gush Katif, jan steen paintings, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Max Horkheimer, Michelangelo Moses, Sigmund Freud, Theodor Adorno, Theodore Adorno, Walter Benjamin, yedida freilich | Leave a comment

advertising is pop culture

Posted on April 8, 2012 by Dave

Are we all part of the Society of the Spectacle, embedded and enmeshed in a vague relationship with internal and external reality all mediated by images, a series of disruptions with no coherent pattern giving us the impression of being … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged Andy Warhol, Guy Debord, James Rosenquist, Jeff Koons, Jonathan McIntosh, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, paul mccarthy art, rebellious pixels, Sigmund Freud, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Yves Klein | Leave a comment

footprints in the desert sand: eternal dust

Posted on April 6, 2012 by Dave

A divine foundation for nature. Even human nature. The whole thing would probably be unintelligible to alien beings and the cold reason of modern rationalism, scientific inquiry that tends to fudge the facts, cannot really explain it. So, there must … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Ariel Sharon, edgar levenson, Israel Gush Katif, Israel Yamit, Lewis Carroll, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Menachen Begin, Migron Israel, shaul mofaz, Sigmund Freud, Yamit expulsion, Zionism | Leave a comment

children being cute

Posted on March 26, 2012 by Dave

Children being cute as a metaphor for superficiality. The new image of the child being born in innocence and the painter to capture that ripe moment of angelic realm before the inevitable gradual tarnishing of the soul. It was a … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged bartolome esteban murillo, Diego Velazquez, Ferdinand Georg Waldmuller, george smith painter, Hermann Hesse, hesse the prodigy, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, murillo spanish painter, Norman Rockwell, Seville Baroque School, shirley temple, Sigmund Freud, Zubaran painter | Leave a comment

cin-thesis

Posted on March 19, 2012 by Dave

Articulations about suffering and pain without the destructive collateral damage of nihilism. Modern despair in a human way. A taking of Edward Hopper’s figures and putting them within the crowd of Baudelaire’s Paris, marching, crying, weeping, but maintaining a human … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Arthur Miller, Charles Baudelaire, Edward Hopper, franklin delano roosevelt memorial, George Segal, kent state shootings, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Duchamp, Meyer Schapiro, michael blackwood, Sigmund Freud, simmel, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

not the same dust

Posted on March 15, 2012 by Dave

There is a struggle between darkness and light, day and night that goes back to earliest antiquity. Kandinsky wrote about this ability to find the “in between” that would reconcile the two in his “Spiritual in Art.” But Germany? Its … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged Albrecht Durer, Anne Frank, Anne Frank Museum, Bach, bosch prodigal son, Hieronymous Bosch, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, madame tussaud berlin, meyer levin, Otto Frank, Sigmund Freud, Wassily Kandinsky, westerbork | Leave a comment

smuggle the uncomfortable

Posted on March 7, 2012 by Dave

“The contradictory works of storied illustrator Norman Rockwell resonate in an age of anxiety”, or so the article began. Well enough anyway. But downhill from there. There is a process of historical revisionism underway that seeks to place Rockwell solidly … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Clement Greenberg, Cornelius Krieghoff, dave hickey, Edward Hopper, Ernest Hemingway, Frans Hals, Honore Daumier, James McNeil Whistler, James McNeill Whistler, Kate taylor, kate taylor globe and mail, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Norman Rockwell, Sigmund Freud, Slavoj Zizek | Leave a comment

purim: doing a deep fry on the “juden fressers”

Posted on March 7, 2012 by Dave

They lived to fight and argue another day. Purim based on the Biblical Book of Esther. That is, there is a hidden hand of god, who acts in a matter of revealed while being hidden; hidden in everything that happens. … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Arthur Koestler, Arthur Szyk, Christopher Hitchens, Christopher Hitchens Judaism, elliott horowitz, maadame pickwick art supplies, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Philip Zimbardo, Philip Zimbardo Stanford Experiment, Purim festival, Ry Cooder, Sigmund Freud, valentin de Boulogne | Leave a comment

Looking for the naughty bits

Posted on March 5, 2012 by Dave

The intimate relationship between sex and death carried to the extremes of excess as only the Russian characters seems uniquely equipped to articulate. The secret erotic room of Catherine the Great as urban legend or in fact proof of decadence … Continue reading →