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don’t mess with the holy fool
Regarded as a kind of holy fool who could stretch time and space while spitting on Isaac Newton’s cape and could scare off Voltaire with flashing visions of nihilistic revelry,a positive nihilism, a kind of messianic negation of the mundane … Continue reading
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Tagged alan moore, Albert Einstein, Allen Ginsberg, Andrew Potter, Billy Bragg, Donald Trump, G.K. Chesterton, jim jarmusch, john michell, John Milton Paradise Lost, mike goode, Slavoj Zizek, Terry Eagleton, todd mcfarlaine, W.B. Yeats, William Blake
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idiot wind
The body being brought to life by perverse aesthetics. The body as the be-all and end-all of existence and the only thing of significance and importance in a relationship. Its a hyper objectification that uses abstract means, part of what … Continue reading
apollo rising
The belief that paradise was up ahead, always just out of reach, had never wavered during the relentless rise of European secularism since the sixteenth century. From then until now, the tenacious grip of the symbolism of the paradise myth … Continue reading
slow worker
from Giorgio Vasari’s account of Leonardo and his work on the Last Supper, his unconventional disposition, his salesmanship and the perplexing bent of secular humanism which was disconcerting to the defenders of the faith…. He also painted in Milan, for … Continue reading
paranoid spittled walls
This exaltation of the violent compulsive spontaneity so reified by the Dada movement, Andre Breton and Max Ernst in particular was put to almost absurd extremes into an effort to appropriate Leonardo Da Vinci into their nihilistic process of attacking … Continue reading
someone stole gabriel’s horn
It was scarcely satisfactory. Artists wanted to distinguish the heavenly messengers from the other young male figures such as the disciples of Jesus and Jesus himself. Greek and Roman Christian poets, elaborating on the Gospel stories, introduced traditional classical imagery. … Continue reading
dragon: fly the friendly skies
Up in smoke. It’s the jeer of the dragon. That charming scaly fellow. In Western iconography, the dragon, generally speaking, is a writhing symbol of evil, even of the Devil himself. But to the Chinese it is a benevolent heavenly … Continue reading
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Tagged chen jung, chen rong, chinese new year, chinese new year 4709, daoist philosophy, don ed hardy, ed hardy, Peter Paul Rubens, raphael paintings, raphello sanzio, Renaissance Art, year of the dragon
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the good companions: spirits having flown
Why do angels have wings? In early Christian times god’s messengers walked as men. But after the sweeping conversions of the pagan world Christian artists found inspiration in the flying deities of ancient faiths. After we emerged from the cave, … Continue reading
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Tagged foundling hospital florence, gabriel angel, Ghirlandaio, greek gods, Harold Bloom, henry hagemann, Hubert van Eyck, Jacob wrestling with angel, Jan van Eyck, jan van eyck ghent altarpiece, jewish priest zacharias, rabbi akiba, William Blake, william bouguereau, Wings of Victory
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the wanderer: trouble no more
The wandering jew. The white man’s burden has forced the heavy lifting onto the yid but the pop culture articulation of the concept is actually more profound and complex than its various manifestations would care to admit. Once man and … Continue reading
Renaissance dali: the man with the golden mean
Nuclear mysticism. Merging the classical technique of the Renaissance with the modernism of science and a generous sprinkling of the Golden Mean. A rearguard action that recognized the decline of art while simultaneously denying it. Duchamp saw to that with … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Breton, Giorgio de Chirico, Guillaume Apollinaire, Leonardo Da Vinci, philippe halsman, Salvador dali, salvador dali leda atomica, Sigmund Freud, sigmund freud leonardo, Surrealism
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