Tag Archives: Svetlana Alpers

authentic pathology and cozy passivity

Posted on September 15, 2011 by Dave

Is art is the creation of an artifact that is it’s own argument? Essentially, It does not need a theory to define it, an expert scholar to contextualize it, or a given situation to render it meaning. So, a true … Continue reading →

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EVERYONE IS A STAR: Can I Buy or Lease Your Aura?

Posted on January 6, 2011 by Dave

It may seem peculiar, annoying, disconcerting and disturbing when pop culture artifacts, including garbage and facial hair, material with no intrinsic value, sells for substantial sums of money. Why? Do they belong to the spirits that guide us through the … Continue reading →

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BONNARD & LIBERATED FROM GRAVITY: ENDLESS SUMMER

Posted on October 19, 2010 by Dave

The intense freshness of “the first moving instant vision” provoked by an object. But actually to copy that object increased the distance from that vision. There is always the danger,Pierre Bonnard felt, of the artist’s becoming caught by the incidentals … Continue reading →

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BONNARD: INTIMATE ESCAPE Into Charged Psychological Moments

Posted on October 18, 2010 by Dave

Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) was not a revolutionary artist but he synthesized several different styles to create works of striking painterliness and memorably glorious color. He borrowed a lightness from the Impressionists, a bold palette from the Post-Impressionists and Fauves, a compressed … Continue reading →

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THE SIMPLE SEER: “FIRST” Possession of a Moment

Posted on October 18, 2010 by Dave

Human monocular and bifocal vision is very different to the action of the camera lens. In fact, Bonnard’s paintings get much more complex spatially when he gives up using the camera around 1920, and relies more and more on his … Continue reading →