Tag Archives: Velazquez

ORANGE LIGHT DISTRICT

Posted on September 9, 2010 by Dave

On a narrow, low lying strip of coastal country in Northern Europe, scarcely two hundred miles long, a country so water logged that enemies and rivals spoke of it as mud flat, there arose in the seventeenth century one of … Continue reading →

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REALITY CHECK: AT THE NEXUS OF DEATH & LOVE

Posted on August 15, 2010 by Dave

“The religion whose savior is born in the humblest circumstances, who during his three year pubic ministry consorted mainly with lowlifes, criminals, publicans and the possessed and whose harrowing death on the cross was, in the words of St. Paul, … Continue reading →

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THREADS OF HORROR FROM THE "EVIL GENIUS"

Posted on August 13, 2010 by Dave

“What in effect Caravaggio is doing systematically and deliberately, for the first time in the history of art, is destroying the space between the event in the painting and the people looking at it…” “Michelangelo Merisi, known as Caravaggio (1571-1610) … Continue reading →

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SAVAGERY SMOTHERED IN LOVE

Posted on March 25, 2010 by Dave

“Personally, I believe very much in values of savagery; I mean: instinct, passion, mood, violence, madness.” — Jean Dubuffet, 1951.Jean Dubuffet ( 1901-1985 ). A visionary of modern anti-culture. He had a private Art Brut museum, where the world’s largest … Continue reading →

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TO BE and NOT TO BE: Outwitting Destiny

Posted on December 17, 2009 by Dave

”Since the death of Picasso, Francis Bacon has more than any other painter provided the age with an image, in Ezra Pound’s phrase, of its accelerated grimace. The key to his work is its ambition. He has taken on the … Continue reading →

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