Tag Archives: William Blake

eye of the tyger

Posted on January 19, 2012 by Dave

William Blake saw heaven in a speck of dust. Toying on the brink of madness, he always seemed to stop just short of leaping off the cliff, of sacrificing himself to some form of wish fulfilling fantasy. An enigma of … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Arthur Rimbaud, craig raine, Edvard Munch, Gordon Brown, Harold Bloom, ian mcewan, Isaac Newton, John Milton, Sigmund Freud, Voltaire, W.B. Yeats, William Blake | Leave a comment

kipling the esoteric: the a.r.k. man

Posted on January 9, 2012 by Dave

by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com ) rudyard kipling is a very famous name in literature. for instance, he was the very first english speaking recipient (and the youngest) of the nobel prize in literature (1907). we all studied him and … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged art chantry, Arthur Rackham, aubrey beardsley, blavatsky theosophy, Helena Blavatsky, Helene Petrovna Blavatsky, j.j. school of art and industry, kipling the jungle book, lockwood kipling, masonic ritual, Max Ernst, Rudyard Kipling, rudyard kipling illustrator, rudyard kipling manji, Steven Heller, William Blake | 1 Comment

fat chance & new jerusalem: the equity of pessimism

Posted on January 3, 2012 by Dave

And the meek shall inherit the debt. Is there an ethical emphasis to economics? Rick Salutin: So here are some Christmas presents from the Judeo-Christian tradition that I hope will find favour with deniers and those who just don’t care … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged Adam Smith, BETC Paris, Caravaggio, Gershom Scholem, Harold Bloom, jonathan rosen, Margaret Atwood, Martin Heidegger, Rick Salutin, tomas sedlacek, vaclav havel, William Blake | Leave a comment

touching a flaming comet

Posted on December 29, 2011 by Dave

The disordering of the senses. A somewhat romantic and irrational project it was, to glorify the romantic’s seemingly narcissistic obsession with the process of creativity, an earnest concern to find the secret of creativity, like a holy grail, or a … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Arthur Rimbaud, Charles Baudelaire, Paul Verlaine, Rupert Murdoch, sidney nolan art, Sir Kenneth Clark, sunday reed, Victor Hugo, William Blake, William Wordsworth | Leave a comment

what if there was no back then

Posted on December 23, 2011 by Dave

Not impressed. Deeply dissatisfied. But not surprised at this confrontation with the passive-aggressive; the yearning to be like him, then the abject tragedy arising when the initiative is undertaken. Harold Bloom was just the man to review Robert Crumb’s The … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged emmanuel levinas, Franz Kafka, Harold Bloom, Marcel Duchamp, Martin Buber, Martin Heidegger, Max Brod, pauline pistis, Randy Newman, Robert Crumb, Sam Harris, Theodor Adorno, Walt Whitman, Walter Benjamin, William Blake, William James | Leave a comment

angel fatigue: it’s lonely at the top

Posted on October 5, 2011 by Dave

Rewards and air miles. frequent flyers.Who knows who you’ll cross flight paths with up in the heavens. Its a difficult issue in dealing with whether ,and how many other spirits in the celestial hierarchy are good or evil, fallen or … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged amy winehouse, barbara taylor, bernard j. bamberger, Fragonard, Francois Boucher, fraser harrison, harry m. olinsky, Hieronymous Bosch, Honoré Fragonard, Jacques Callot, Jean Genet, john dryden, John Milton, Joost van den Vondel, Martin Buber, Randy Newman, Rembrandt, Salvador dali, sarah ellis, Vondel, William Blake | Leave a comment

george stubbs tears: putting a good face upon trade

Posted on October 3, 2011 by Dave

The jockey with his invincibly English face is from a canvas by George Stubbs ( 1724-1806 ) who is so well known for his portraits of horses as to obscure the fact that he painted their owners and handlers with … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Donald Kuspit, George Stubbs, j.m.w. turner, royal academy of the arts, sir anthony carlisle, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gainsborough, Thomas Rowlandson, William Blake, William Hazlitt, William Powell Frith | Leave a comment

have pen no travel: drawing from point a to b

Posted on June 1, 2011 by Art

Draw your blessings. And these are days of yore, at the gates of Jerusalem. Competent graphic designers who can’t draw… Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): This is a great example of a very good competent graphic designer who can’t draw worth a … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged art chantry, Banksy, biblical illustration, d.l. moody, graphic design, graphic illustration, jack chick, jean louise smith, Limbourg Brothers, Limbourg Brothers The Book of Hours, Rick Griffin, William Blake | Leave a comment

knowing the dancer from the dance

Posted on March 6, 2011 by Dave

In “The Faerie Queene” Edmund Spenser tells a tale of “darke conceit” in which Prince Arthur, the future king, goes in search of the Faerie Queene, Elizabeth. In each of the six books completed, Arthur representing Magnanimity- in Spenser’s system … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous | Tagged Chapman Shadow of Night, Christopher Marlowe, Dante Divine Comedy, Dr. John Dee, Frances Yates, Francesco Giorgi, George Gower, Hans Eworth, John Dee, John Dowland, Marlowe Doctor Faustus, Mary Queen of Scots, Nicholas Hilliard, Queen Elizabeth I, Shakespeare, W.B. Yeats, William Blake, William Butler Yeats | Leave a comment

trilogy of a divine comedy: purgatory, passion and produce

Posted on January 27, 2011 by Dave

Measured against the accelerating transformation of our own society, the Renaissance seems like a relatively minor cultural revolution in the history of humanity.Futurologists like Alvin Toffler suggest that the changing conditions of life we are now experiencing are so profound … Continue reading →