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period productions
The shock of the new. A trauma involving a break in the continuity of existence… Which Picasso? As great an impresario as he was a painter, Picasso in his lifetime had produced a whole repertory of artists bearing the same … Continue reading
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Tagged Aaron Beck, art patronage Europe, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Frederick the Great Prussia, Lancret, Leonardo Da Vinci, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Maurizio Cattelan, Michelangelo, Pablo Picasso, Pater, Picasso Circus period, Rembrandt, Voltaire, Watteau
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looking for the punch line
There is always the question in art of private meaning within public purposes, a kind of personal humor characterized by a kind of sharing between joke and dream. As E.H. Gombrich asserted, there is always an underlying code that serves … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Arthur Koestler, Diego Rivera, E.H. Gombrich, harold rugg, Jean Antoine Watteau, Leonardo Da Vinci, max sterner, Meyer Schapiro, Pablo Picasso, Rainer Maria Rilke, Sigmund Freud, Watteau
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owsley bear :looking for habitats of unreason
A justifiable flight from reason? I human life inevitably alienating? At a very base and primal level does this alienation and its pathological impulse to dominate make an easy excuse to justify exploitation and thus rationalize our present societal structure?Was … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged Bruce Eisner, Charles Reich, Eisner, Erich Fromm, J.W. Waterhouse, Jean Antoine Watteau, Jeffrey Mishlove, Jerry Garcia, Ken Kesey, Owsley Bear Stanley, Owsley Stanley, R.D. Laing, Theodore Roszak, Timothy Leary, Tom Wolfe, Walt Disney, Watteau
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WATTEAU:EMBEDDED LANGUAGE AS AN ART OF LIVING
There is always two contradictory dimensions which Watteau’s paintings contain. On the one hand there is melancholy pleasure signifying sadness, the metaphysics of pleasure; on the other hand, a libertine pleasure without any metaphysical meaning, pleasure which signifies only itself: … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged André Campra, Antoine Crozat, Antoine Houdard de la Motte, Charles Le Brun, Claude Adran, Claude Gillot, Comte de Caylus, Fragonard, Francois Boucher, Georgia Cowart, Gérard de Nerval, Jacques Callot, Jean Antoine Houdard, Jean Antoine Watteau, Jed Perl, Julian Bell, Julie Anne Plax, Marcel Carne, Marcel Carne Les Enfants du Paradis, Mary D. Sheriff, Mary Vidal, Michael Levey, Michel Foucault, N.F. Karlins, Nicolas Poussin, Peter Paul Rubens, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Pierre Crozat, Robert Baldwin, Sarah Cohen, Sev, Thomas Crow, Thomas Gainsborough, Titian, Walter Pater, Watteau, William Hogarth
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WATTEAU & UTOPIA ON STANDBY: THE GHOSTS OF STYLE
Should we let bygones be bygone eras?These are precious, because Watteau’s paintings so unmistakably draw meaning from and give memorable form to a certain now far distant subculture.He is a master of in-between situations….Watteau introduced just such a change of … Continue reading
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Tagged Calvin Seerveld, Claude Adran, Claude Gillot, Comte de Caylus, Donald Posner, Edouard Manet, Fragonard, Francois Boucher, Georgia Cowart, Giovanni Morelli, James Panero, Jean Antoine Watteau, Jed Perl, Jonathan Wintle, Julian Bell, Julie Anne Plax, Karen Rosenberg, Lacan, Lisa MacDonald, Marcel Duchamp, Mary Vidal, Michael Levey, Michel Foucault, N.F. Karlins, Nicolas Poussin, Perrin Stein, Pierre Rosenberg, Robert Baldwin, Robert Mealy, Samuel Beckett, Sarah Cohen, Sigmund Freud, Theodor Adorno, Thomas Crow, Watteau
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