Tag Archives: Vermeer

AUTHENTICITY AND AESTHETICS

Posted on March 1, 2010 by Dave

Snobbery has its own aesthetics. If a work of art seems identical to the naked eye, why should an original Picasso end up in the living room, a reproduction on the stairway and a forgery in the recycle bin? In … Continue reading →

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RHINOS, PICADORS & MINOTAURS

Posted on February 28, 2010 by Dave

”Picasso had never been a political artist, and as Jung noted, his images seemed increasingly to withdraw from objective reality and primarily reflected some inner psychic state that he was trying to work out on canvas. He made no war-related … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Aaron Ross, Adorno, Andrew Wyeth, Carl Jung, Dali, Herschel B. Chipp, Jean Dubuffet, Leonard Baskin, Pablo Picasso, Picasso, Picasso Guernica, Salvador dali, Spanish Civil War, Spanish fascism, Theodor Adorno, Velasquez, Vermeer | 4 Comments

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 →

Posted in Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Ezra Pound, Francis Bacon, Grey Gowrie, Johannes Vermeer, Michael Leris, Michael Peppiatt, Monty Python, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Picasso, Salvador dali, Shakespeare, The Beatles, Tom Lubbock, Van Gogh, Velazquez, Vermeer | 5 Comments

THE PAINTERS AND THE PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN

Posted on December 1, 2009 by Dave

Salvador Dali’s understanding of Freud was in the ambiguous transfer of desire to reality;where desire cannot be represented directly or consciously, it takes the form of a distortion of reality as an absurdity. A strange convergence of the elements of … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Aaron Ross, Andre Breton, Dali, Dali Planet, DaVinci, Freud, Jacques Lacan, Jan Vermeer, Kenneth Grahame, Leonardo DaVinci, Louis markoya, Piper at the gates of dawn, Rembrandt, Salvador dali, Sigmund Freud, The lacemaker, The Wind and The Willows, Vermeer | 4 Comments

The Alchemist, The Modern Lover & Vermeer

Posted on November 19, 2009 by Dave

Vermeer was eerie Vermeer was strange He had his own color range As if born in a more modern age They may be oh a hundred or so years ago What’s this a ghost in the gallery Great Scot the … Continue reading →

Posted in Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Jonathan Richman, Jorge Luis Borges, Paul Coelho, Picasso, Satchel Paige, Tale of Two Dreamers, The Alchemist, Vermeer | Leave a comment

The Double Fake Under the Paint Trick Art Hoax

Posted on July 7, 2009 by Dave

Houdiniesque. To make paintings of the Great Dutch masters appear magically centuries later, freshly minted and looking as old,worn and authentic as the originals. Between 1933 and 1945, Dutch painter Han Van Meegeren gained notoriety for propagating one of the most … Continue reading →