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Guest blog from Tai Carmen at Parallax.Parallax: exploring the architecture of human perception Tai Carmen: “There is a special ratio that can be used to describe the proportions of everything from nature’s smallest building blocks, such as atoms, to the … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged bruce rawles, carl friedrich gauss, Carl Jung, cubism golden mean, divine proportion, divine ratio, fibonacci sequence, justin kuepper, Leonardo Da Vinci, Salvador dali, stan gris, tai carmen, tai carmen parallax, the golden mean, The Golden Ratio, Vermeer, Voltaire
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Golden Guilders: going dutch with jan de witt
Under Jan de Witt, the Dutch bested the great powers at both arms and commerce, arts and science. However, in a moment of panic they killed him and the Dutch Golden Age turned to lead. So much of what we … Continue reading
PASSION & ELEGANCE: Uneasy Companions
The work of Jan van Eyck, with its balanced, reserved, and dignified realism. is usually considered the summary expression of Flemish genius. His complete Flemishness, along with his unapproachable technical perfection, may explain why his art was less easily assimilated … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Andrew Graham Dixon, Annette Labedzki, Arnofini van eyck, Craig Harbison, Dale Kent, Dr. Beth Harris, Dr. Stephen Zucker, Dr. Steven Zucker, Drogin, Edwin Hall, Erwin Panofsky, Jan van Eyck, Linda Seidel, Master of Flémalle, Patrick Bernauw, Peter Voorn, Robert Campin, Rogier van der Weyden, Thomas a Kempis, Vermeer, William P. Coleman
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AN OBSESSION WITH UNREASON: Absolute and Faithless Doubt
Caravaggio has become the ultimate old master superstar; his only real rival is Vermeer. It was a great if sadly short career. Caravaggio’s work was an expression of awareness of the precariousness of a reason that can at any moment be compromised, … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Malraux, Andrew Graham Dixon, Annibale Carracci, Araminta Wordsworth, Bernard Berenson, Caravaggio, David Eskerdjian, E.H. Gombrich, Ernst Gombrich, Francine Prose, Francis Schaeffer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Giordano Bruno, Helen Langdon, Jan Vermeer, Jean Jacques Rousseau, John Ruskin, Martin Luther, Martin Scorsese, Maurizio Calvesi, Michael Fried, Michel Foucault, Nicolas Poussin, Philip Sohm, Roberto Longhi, Simon Schama, Thomas Aquinas, Vermeer
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ORANGE LIGHT DISTRICT
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
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Adam van Breen, Cornelisz Verspronck, Diego Velazquez, Dutch Golden Age, Dutch painting, Frans Hals, Hugo Grotius, Jacob Cats, Jan Steen, Jan Vermeer, Joost van den Vondel, Paulus van Hillegaart, Pieter van den Keere, Rembrandt, Velazquez, Vermeer, Vondel
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PAINTED FROM MEMORY: PETER PAUL PAINTING JOY
“Like many people, I have trouble with Rubens’s nudes, especially the female ones: all that smothering flesh, vibrantly alive but with the erotic appeal of a mud slide. (Rubens, owing to moral constraints of the time, rarely worked from nude … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Amy Golahny, Andy Warhol, Anthony Van Dyck, Caravaggio, Damien Hirst, Diego Velasquez, Edward Norgate, Flemish painting, Hals, Jacqueline Lichtenstein, Jan Brandt, Jan Wildens, Julius Ceasar, King Henry IV, Mannerist Art, Marie de Medicis, Pablo Picasso, Peter Paul Rubens, Peter Schjeldahl, Rembrandt, Rubens, Samuel van Hoogstraten, Simon Schama, Sir William Sanderson, Tacitus Roman Historian, Vermeer, Willem Panneels
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MAN, THE MARKET and THE MESSIAH
Pious consumption. As Easter is upon us, so is a recurring drama of what the holiday means. Believer based critiques as opposed to the deeply secular and atheistic. It is often a case of the message overwhelming the medium and … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Smith, Alfred North Whitehead, Ben Bernanke, Caiaphas Sanhedrin, Caravaggio, Christian Ethics Today, Chrsit Before Caiaphus, Easter, Father Raymond J. de Souza, George Jonas, Giotto, Giotto di Bordone, Hans Memling, Harvey Cox, Henry Lincoln, Holy Blood Holy Grail, Jesus Christ, Jesus Easter, Johannes Vermeer, John Moore, Martin Scrosese, Mehmet Ali Agca, Michael Baigent, nathan greene, Nikos Kazantzakis, Pontius Pilate, Rembrandt, Richard Leigh, Steven D. Greydanus, Tertullian, The last Temptation of Christ Scrosese, Vermeer, William Blake, William Dafoe
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TENDER ANTIQUARIAN STOOP
We look at old pictures through a double frame. The solid gilt frame which isolates it from its surroundings and creates for it a hole in space; and the period frame in our minds which creates for it a hole … Continue reading
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