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Category Archives: Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
getting smug over the “fallen dancer”
bad public art….. By Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com): Every city has it’s examples of really bad urban sculpture. these things are usually funded by self-righteous fine art mavens foisting their idea of “good taste and breeding” down the throats of … Continue reading
the 30 million dollar fawcett
It was a one for two gift apparently. The other one hung from a paper moon of sorts. Farah Fawcett bequethed two Warhol silkscreen portraits in her will, but one never made it to the institution in Texas. It was … Continue reading
giants: part metal packets
Apparently, size does matter.They are giants. twelve feet high; a haunting reminder of the ancient nephilim said to have wandered the earth in a remote past. But these are mythological monsters transformed into autonomous structures that do feed a certain … Continue reading
a social skin saturated with designs
New skins and old ceremonies. Its a complex visual language. Body art is not merely “decoration”, but instead, part of a highly patterned cultural universe.The appeal of body painting is a fascinating juxtaposition between the ancient providing avenues of communication … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged airbrush art, Alex Hansen, Benjamin Bouchard, body painting, extreme beauty, kathy slamen, lymari millot, Mehron N.Y., naita ratycz, Studio Backstage, Studio Backstage Montreal
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gold bugs: buried with their booty
Among the allies of the Trojans in their bitter war to save their city were men from the far off land of Thrace. According to Homer, their chariots were laden with silver and gold and their weapons were also of … Continue reading
failures of empathy:aesthetics of doubt
The basic problem that Walter Benjamin was uncovering was the relation between law and justice as it leaned on violence.The struggle of the divine power with mythological violence. His “Critique on Violence” addressed the question of whether violence in the … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Chaim Soutine, Clement Greenberg, Ernst Kirchner, Franz Kafka, Gustav Schiefler, H. Harvard Arnason, Heinz Kohut, Jacob Epstein, Max Horkheimer, Otto Dix, Sylvia von Harden, Walter Benjamin, willem de Kooning
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claudel: before the poison
She was seventeen and wanted to be a sculptor. He was forty-one. He was Auguste Rodin on the verge of taking to the heights of the French art world, being compared to genius of Michelangelo. He had overcome the major … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Alma Schindler, Auguste Rodin, Bernini, Camille Claudel, Emile Zola, Julia Baudin, Marianne Faithfull, Mary Cassat, Otto Rank, Paul Claudel, Rose Beurat, Sigmund Freud, Stephane Mallarme, Zola
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every good work of art is a kind of joke
“No , the French spirit will never live in this German larva, in this beer-filled thing which is at the Salon.” wrote a rival sculptor in the “Revue de Monde Catholique”. Others dubbed Rodin “the Michelangelo of the goiter”. The … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Albert Elsen, Auguste Rodin, Diego Rivera, Dr. Beth Harris, Dr. Steven Zucker, Emile Zola, Honore de Balzac, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Michelangelo Moses, Otto Rank, Pablo Picasso, Sigmund Freud
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