Tag Archives: Helene Petrovna Blavatsky

darwin: bug hunting as trojan horse

Posted on December 11, 2012 by Dave

…Moreover, men were beginning to have some understanding of the complex interactions in nature, of the contribution to the animal and vegetable “balance” of even the noxious and disagreeable. To pursue in any detail the pleasing evidences of divine purpose … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Charles Darwin, Charles Darwin Origin of the Species, Charles Darwin Theory of Evolution, Charles Hunt paintings, Charles Lyell, Christopher Hale, David Klinghoffer, Helene Petrovna Blavatsky, J. B. Lamarck, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Natural Theology Victorian England, Peter Levenda, Rational Christianity, Rev. William Paley, T.H. Huxley | 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

spooked: after midnight

Posted on May 13, 2011 by Dave

getting spooky. And it all began with Helena Blavatsky and her spiritualist movement, then assumed a distinct identity within popular American culture… Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): What do the Cramps, Gwar, Alice Cooper, Marilyn Manson, Blackstone the Magician, David Copperfield, penn … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged bela lugosi, ben nelsom, ben nelson, blackstone, gwar, Helena Blavatsky, Helene Petrovna Blavatsky, herschel gordon lewis, James Dean, john waters, Marilyn Manson, Marilyn Monroe, ray dennis steckler, rob zombie, The Cramps, william castle | Leave a comment

TRACKING DOWN THIS “SOMETHING ELSE”

Posted on October 6, 2010 by Dave

Many contemporary counterculturalists and psychologists who trend towards the ” human potential” camp of that vocation – are obsessed with the idea that people need to be deprogrammed or de-brainwashed from the inherited percepts of their culture, as well as … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous | Tagged A.R. Orage, Aleister Crowley, Art Kleps, C.S. Nott, Carlos Castaneda, Corey Donovan, D.H. Lawrence, Frank Lloyd Wright, G.I. Gurdjieff, Georgi Ivanovitch Gurdjieff, Helene Petrovna Blavatsky, James Boswell, James Joyce, Katherine Mansfield, Kathy Hurley, Kenneth Cavandar, Kenneth Walker, Michel de Salzmann, P.D. Ouspensky, P.L. Travers, Ralph Metzner, Rasputin, Richard Alpert, Roger Lipsey, Rom landau, Rudolf Steiner, Sigmund Freud, Sufism, Terry Winter Owens, Theodorre Donson, Timothy Leary, William Butler Yeats | Leave a comment

ECSTASY OF GEOMETRY: READING BETWEEN THE LINES

Posted on August 18, 2010 by Dave

What was the nature of the quest that moved the Dutch painter Piet Mondrian (1872–1944) to abandon the representation of nature in favor of an art of pure abstraction? What, exactly, did Mondrian believe that he had achieved? In any … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Aaron S. Esman, Alexander Calder, Amelia Jones, Aniela Jaffe, Blavatsky, Brancusi, Charcot, Daniel H. Caldwell, David Sylvester, Dee Reynolds, Dr. Beth Harris, Dr. Stephen Zucker, Dr. Steven Zucker, Elizabeth Truswell, Fred Jameson, Gary Kennard, Hans J. Kleinschmidt, hans L.C. Jaffa, Harry Cooper, Helene Petrovna Blavatsky, J.J. Sweeney, James W. Hamilton, Justin Wintle, K. Paul Johnson, Kasimir Malevich, Ken Gewertz, Lee Penn, M.H.J Schoenmaekers, Mallarme, Meyer Schapiro, Mick Haggerty, Neil A. Dodgson, Nelly Van Doesburg, Parker Tyler, Phyllis Greenacre, Piet Mondrian, R.E. Kantor, Robert Hughes, Ron Spronk, Rudolf Steiner, Stephen Hicks, Stephen R.C. Hicks, Theo Van Doesburg, Truswell, Virginia Hanson, Wallace Stevens, Wassily Kandinsky, willem de Kooning, Yves-Alain Bois | 2 Comments

MONDRIAN:INCONVENIENT PARADOXES & STRATEGIES OF CONCEALMENT

Posted on August 18, 2010 by Dave

“As time progressed, however, so did the indoctrination as to the new role of art. In the established media journals we were told by critics such as Clement Greenberg and Leo Steinberg, that Art “challenges previously held assumptions,” and that … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Aaron H. Esman, Alain Besancon, Aniela Jaffe, Annie Besant, Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson, Blavatsky, Briony Fer, Carel Blotkamp, Carl Jung, Charmion von Wiegand, Clement Greenberg, Frank Elgar, Franklin W. Robinson, Gerrit Rietveld, Gilles Deleuze, Hamilton Reed Armstrong, hans L.C. Jaffa, Harry Holtzman, Helene Petrovna Blavatsky, Jackson Pollock, James W. Hamilton, Leo Steinberg, Maurice Tuchman, Michel Seuphor, Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Rudolf Steiner, Theo Van Doesburg, theosophy, Tom Gurney, Wassily Kandinsky | Leave a comment

MONDRIAN: THEOSOPHICALLY PAINTING THE GOLDEN CALF

Posted on August 17, 2010 by Dave

Art for Piet Mondrian( 1872-1944) was a cultural product and a cultural weapon, a privileged instrument for the construction of an urban and, in the best sense of the word, artificial order. Yet Mondrian’s perception of the world, no matter … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Annie Besant, Ayn Rand, Bart van der Leck, Colin Wilson, David Sylvester, Edouard Schuré, Elizabeth Truswell, Emma Coulomb, Fred Jameson, Gary Kennard, Gerard Pas, Gerrit Rietveld, Gertrude M. Williams, Harry Holtzman, Helene Petrovna Blavatsky, James Randi, Jos Agassi, Meyer Schapiro, Neil A. Dodgson, Piet Mondrian, Richard Hodgson, Rudolf Steiner, Stephen R.C. Hicks, The White Stripes, Theo Van Doesburg, Timothy C. Baker, Tucker Gorman, William Coleman, William Hirstein, William P. Seely | 1 Comment

MAXED OUT ON DADA: AVOIDING THE DEGENERACY OF GAINFUL EMPLOYMENT

Posted on July 27, 2010 by Dave

”…it becomes obvious that Max Ernst’s brilliant accomplishment consisted of having developed a syntax by which the employment of this found material could be controlled. For all their independence from traditional artistic techniques and the imitation of nature, it is … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Andre Breton, August Macke, Dada Movement, Dadaist Art, David Lewis, Ezra Pound, Geoffrey Hinton, George P. Landow, Hans Arp, Helene Petrovna Blavatsky, Johannes Baargeld, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Max Ernst occult, Nadia Choucha, Paul Eluard, Piet Mondrian, Robert Delaunay, Robert Desnos, Salvador dali, Sigmund Freud, Surrealism, W.B. Yeats, Werner Spies | Leave a comment

FAITH HEALERS AND TOUCHY-FEELERS

Posted on July 11, 2010 by Dave

Russians have always had a centuries-long passion for the occult, and in times of social and political change the paranormal mushroomed, with all manner of psychics, wizards and sorcerers popping up to offer so-called “magical services”, on a much grander, … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous | Tagged Alan Chumak, Alexander Kashpirovski, Alexandra Fedorovna, Babushka Katya, Colin Wilson, Count Alessandre Caliostro, Czar Nicholas II, Empress Alexandra, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Grigori Rasputin, Grigory Grabovoi, Helena Blavatsky, Helene Petrovna Blavatsky, Jonathan Levit, Khlysts, Lena and Katya Popova, Leo Tolstoy, Maria Rasputin, Nancy R. Fenn, Robert D. Warth, Russian Faith Healers, Russian Miracle Healers, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Yuri Longo, Yuri Tarasov | Leave a comment

By the Skin of Their Teeth

Posted on November 3, 2009 by Dave

A ninety second viral spot filmed in a hand- held style in downtown Toronto ; a washed out palette that raises the spectre of post-apocalyptic films like Children of Men.Its called called ”Moms Against Climate Change” and aims to raise … Continue reading →