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”The Europeans had shown the way; yet the avant-garde American artists had to work desperately to break away from the influence of the School of Paris and especially from that Olympian, Pablo Picasso. Like the Collective Unconscious or the dreams of childhood, Picasso’s images and icons kept creeping in while the Abstract Expressionists used both [...]
”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 art during World War I and after the war he turned from the cubism that [...]
It has been as impossible for Picasso to dissociate his art from the human values that art has traditionally served, as it has been for him to imitate traditional forms. He was the most extraordinary artist of the twentieth century in being at once uncompromisingly revolutionary and traditional. He was the most aggressive spokesman for [...]
He was the most resourceful of innovators. Pablo Picasso transmuted old traditions into modern idioms. He might even be called the last of the great humanists. When Picasso ( 1881-1973 ) was alive, what he was doing, or had stopped doing, or seemed to be about to do, was always news, and was habitually expected [...]
”Art and religion have been united from the beginning of all civilization, because of the common mystery of their origin and their magical effect on humanity. Etymologically they are allied. The latin term “ars” was at first used in connection with religion and magic and only later disassociated itself from them both to acquire its [...]
who is the fairest painter since Medieval?.” I’m maybe not as good as Raphael”, he once conceded, ”but there is more tension in my canvases”. One of the greatest admirers of his own haunting portraits was the eccentric Russian called John Graham. In the case of John Graham even more than with most painters, it [...]
Lost and found.A cultural tower of Babel or a stairway to heaven. In a mountain valley of Afghanistan a French explorer discovered this ancient Ghorid tower, previously known only to legend. It is an artifact, an imposing one, of Ghurid and Ismailis, also known as the Assassin presence of whom David C. Thomas has termed [...]
” I was born for poetry. Whatever I tried to say came out as verse”. Ovid was a gifted observer of ”la dolce vita” that delighted the beautiful people of Augustan Rome with his how-to verses on love making. Unfortunately, the emperor was not amused. If ever there was a born writer it was a [...]
When the truth is found to be lies/ and all the joy within you dies ( Somebody to Love, Jefferson Airplane ) The opening scene in A Serious Man is fictional folkloric legend where an elder man, believed to be deceased and in newly minted material form as his previous self, enters a house of [...]
”Receive with simplicity all that happens to you”, or so Rashi, the Jewish mystic sage is alleged to have uttered.It appeared in the opening scene of the film A Serious Man.To which must be addeda Korean student is asking to have an “F” changed to a passing grade and offers Larry, a university physics professor [...]
