Category Archives: Modern Arts/Craft

mythologizing camera

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Dave

Compared to Norman Rockwell for depicting a slice of life Americana, but the comparison is a but unjust; Ozzie Sweet’s work lacks that element of American disavowal and the subtle and hidden eroticism found in much of Rockwell’s illustration. From … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Albert Einstein, Leni Riefenstahl, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mickey Mantle, Norman Rockwell, Ozzie Sweet photography, tom brokaw, tom brokaw the greatest generation | Leave a comment

eccentric patrons

Posted on May 13, 2012 by Dave

By October 1942, Peggy Guggenheim was ready to open in New York a new gallery, Art of This Century, surely the most eccentric pleasure dome ever decreed for the inspection of art. Lights flashed on and off, with great rushes … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Alexander Calder, Anton Gill, Edward Hopper, Frank Lloyd Wright, Glynis Bell, Grant Wood, Jackson Pollock, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mark Rothko, Mary V. Dearborn, Max Ernst, Museum of Non-Objective Art, Peggy Guggenheim, Robert Motherwell, Solomon Guggenheim, Thomas Hart Benton | Leave a comment

peggy

Posted on May 13, 2012 by Dave

The Buddenbrook’s Syndrome according to Thomas Mann was the rags to riches to shirtsleeves scenario, where the drive to continue to accumulate great wealth would diminish through succeeding generations; a waning enthusiasm for grabbing the bull by the horns. By … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Alfred Courmes, Benjamin Guggenheim, Buddenbrooks syndrome, Caspar David Friedrich, Herbert Read Museum director, Hilla Rebay, Jacqueline Weld, leonora carrington, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Duchamp, Mary V. Dearborn, Max Ernst, Michele C. Cone, Peggy Guggenheim, Rudolf Bauer, Solomon Guggenheim, Thomas Mann | Leave a comment

momentary improvisation

Posted on May 12, 2012 by Dave

What strikes you is how competitive they were. The bravado and the macho. The guy to nail the cover photo. Which meant a willingness to take risks. That which is nominally referred to as courage, was really pushing the boundaries … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged David Horowitz, David Rubinger, Haim Oshri, Hannah Arendt, jabotinsky, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, moshe dayan, paul schutzer photography, Peter Bergson, six day war, Sol Stern, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

the storyteller

Posted on May 12, 2012 by Dave

Jesse Marinoff Reyes: Farewell to Tony DeZuniga (1932-2012), Silver Age comics artist and co-creator of the DC Comics characters Jonah Hex and the Black Orchid. DeZuniga was the first of the so-called “Filipino Invasion” (comic artists with established careers in … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Alex Nino, Alfredo Alcala, edgar rice burroughs, esteban moroto, jesse marinoff reyes, joe kubert, john severin illustration, Jonah Hex and the Black Orchid, Nathan Evans, Nestor Redondo, redondo, Tony DeZuniga | Leave a comment

exposure barely controlled

Posted on May 12, 2012 by Dave

Came across some photographs by Paul Schutzer this week and it was an eye stopper. I would put him up there with Henri Cartier-Bresson and Helen Levitt in terms of personal understanding; he seems to fall into the kind of … Continue reading →

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hanging by a thread

Posted on May 9, 2012 by Dave

Max Beckmann studied medieval German art, the triptychs, loaded with gory, violent scenes of Christian martyrdom, at its most inglorious and vulgar incarnations of the human grotesque. In his modern condition, the contradictions of Weimar, there is none of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Erhard Gopel, fabrizio Laurenti, George Grosz, Hannah Arendt, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Max Horkheimer, Mussolini hanged, New Objectivity painting, Otto Dix, Piazzale Loreto, sergio luzzatto, Theodor Adorno, Weimar Germany art | Leave a comment

boris the anthropomorphic

Posted on May 7, 2012 by Dave

by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) i always thought that guys like basil wolverton were wholly unique weirdos slaving away in their damp basements (tape on glasses, giggling incoherently). i grew up carefully examining wolverton’s crazy insane disturbing drawings (on stickers … Continue reading →

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brother’s keeper

Posted on May 6, 2012 by Dave

The perspective of the bull depends on where one is situated. For Hemingway, bullfighting is a metaphor for the intricate but often pre-determined relationships between men and women replete with sacrificial qualities and doused with pagan animalism. From a more … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Bullfighting, Diego Velazquez, Edouard Manet, Ernest Hemingway, Eugene Manet, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog | Leave a comment

those special shades

Posted on May 6, 2012 by Dave

by Art Chantry last night i again watched one of of my favorite director’s (john carpenter) best movies – THEY LIVE! when it was first released in 1988, it was reviewed as the first “anti-yuppie” movie of the reagan era. … Continue reading →