Tag Archives: willem de Kooning

many rivers to cross

Posted on March 10, 2012 by Dave

Brilliant. But relegated to the scrapheap. A dust bin discard. Just another tormented, energetic man who became an old wild man. Part of a weird process that maybe invented pop art. Maybe. You know the type. Caught between a passion … Continue reading →

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nihilism : brave new world

Posted on February 9, 2012 by Dave

Seduced. The abolition of logic and its replacement by spontaneity. The will to nothing. No permit requited. The strange guest, nihilism, at the door. Somehow the grain of the new, a weird perversion of creationism which combines the anxiety of … Continue reading →

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the washington square drips and splatters

Posted on January 12, 2012 by Dave

Hard to pinpoint what brought them together, this collection of opposites that endured to the end. Arshile Gorky was a late and marginal member in Andre Breton’s surrealist circle and he may have transmitted the importance of trusting introspection, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Abstract expressionism, Andre Breton, Andre masson, Andy Warhol, Arshile Gorky, atelier 17, Clement Greenberg, harold rosenberg art critic, Jackson Pollock, Joan Miro, John Graham, matta echaurren, Pablo Picasso, stanley william hayter, Walt Whitman, willem de Kooning, Yves Tanguay | Leave a comment

liberating the line: painting the bestial floor

Posted on January 11, 2012 by Dave

Was the use of automatism to pry into abstraction and the subconscious essential to Abstract Expressionism? It can be asserted that it was significant in unlocking the mystery and meaning of the abstract plane; a gateway into the world of … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Abstract expressionism, Andre Breton, Andre masson, atelier 17, bryan robertson, edouard jaguer, Georges Bataille, Jackson Pollock, stanley william hayter, Surrealism, W.B. Yeats, willem de Kooning | Leave a comment

pining for the grey elysium

Posted on January 5, 2012 by Dave

Can an artist be beyond the reach of criticism because they have been so institutionalized and commodified by the taste makers of celebrity? Are we buying the talent, the art or the brand, like the steak and sizzle distinction. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Andre Breton, bertram lewin, Charles Le Brun, D.W. Winnicott, Diego Velazquez, james kalm, Jasper Johns, Lawrence Alloway, Leo Steinberg, Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, w.r. bion, Walter Benjamin, willem de Kooning | Leave a comment

coloring outside lines lived

Posted on January 5, 2012 by Dave

An ambivalence about life. A detachment, clean and without guilt that defies the romantic notion concerning childhood innocence. It is a profane illumination of sorts, to live without sentimental condescension or routine exercises in nostalgia yet without the myriad and … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged dusty boynton, Frans Hals, hans hoffman, hans hofmann, Jean Dubuffet Art Brut, marlene dumas, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, willem de Kooning | Leave a comment

brand name incidental relationships

Posted on January 3, 2012 by Dave

The transformation of beauty into claims of prestige? What if there was no super-wealthy class to cultivate and consume art and hence be able to draw invidious comparisons with their peers? Veblen asserted that wealth display and the splurging of … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged David Geffen, Donald Kuspit, eileen kinsella, Gerhard Richter, Jackson Pollock, naum gabo, Pablo Picasso, Piet Mondrian, richard serra, Thorstein Veblen, Wassily Kandinsky, willem de Kooning | Leave a comment

money matter: paint by big $ numbers

Posted on December 31, 2011 by Dave

Are people buying the work for its aesthetic qualities or are they buying the brand. The artist as brand. Although Artur Koestler said buying a reproduction is the same as owning the outright original. Its Cultural economics where the market … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged adele bloch-bauer, Alberto Giacometti, alfred lessing, Arthur Koestler, daniel boorstin, Gustav Klimt, Jackson Pollock, Lucian Freud, Marcel Duchamp, Meyer Schapiro, Pablo Picasso, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Thorstein Veblen, willem de Kooning | Leave a comment

the all-american girl

Posted on December 20, 2011 by Dave

So, you have all the attributes of conspicuous consumption and idealized femininity that is degrading to women. Barbie dolls essentially peddled on the identical marketing template as McDonald’s – I’m Loving it- and Coca Cola- Within an arm’s reach of … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged agnes nairn, Andy Warhol, anthony storr, barbie dolls, Edouard Manet, ellie levenson, Henri Matisse, mariel clayton, Pablo Picasso, Sigmund Freud, willem de Kooning | Leave a comment

wrapped in the melodrama of vulgarity

Posted on December 18, 2011 by Dave

Was the impulse of modern art to destroy beauty, to pitch renaissance notions of beauty into the dumpster? Behind De Kooning, was there a profound and embedded hated of women? He did say “flesh was the main reason oil paint … Continue reading →