Comments for Madame Pickwick Art Blog

Comment on the pause between seconds by Dave

Dave — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 23:57:39 +0000

thanks for taking the time to write. I think they take responsibility and are willing to face the music. Its painful, but are engaged with that. I would suggest the guardedness takes the form of certain eccentricities; retreating to the parochial and being a bit ambiguous with the semantics which can serve both to liberate and enslave. The other remark, is that the subject material can so raw that some irony and the comic serves as recourse at times to a palliative.
Dave

Comment on the pause between seconds by Millicent Regretti

Millicent Regretti — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 23:48:48 +0000

Good of you to venture into the rarefied world of picking through musicians’ brains to find the starting point. Usually it’s a fruitless task – as they are either too stupid to know where the impetus stems from, or so clever they want to cover their tracks. On the strength of your previous post I caught some Bisonics films on YouTube. Quintessentially English with that mindset that lets an empire slip through their hands just so they can tell jokes and write sad songs about it, their industriousness fueled by indolence. The mention of ‘Two Way Stretch’ could be a subtle clue: a Peter Sellers film and, like Sellers, Bisonics songs are dressed in various disguises, adopt alien attitudes, cloak themselves in irony and humor. It’s a form of guarded exposure. They reveal themselves, and some ugly truths (the heartlessness and egoism of ‘Karaoke Version Of Myself’, the despairing desperate desire of ‘Reunion’) but always at a remove, so they can jump back and say, ‘No, that’s not us; it’s only a game’. A song like ‘Old Hat’ is a case in point; it seems like a facile mockery of outdated manners but it’s really about obsolescence and encroaching irrelevance. I apologize for such a long response but the song ‘What Happened’ (love that absence – deliberate? – of a question-mark) deeply moved me. It was a rare moment in music where both sides are as innocent and guilty as the other, and they are left at the end, staring at each other, wondering what happens next, no easy resolution, no answer, no conciliatory gestures.

Comment on the sinister and dreadful “yes” by Ian Dickerson

Ian Dickerson — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 18:13:55 +0000

He didn’t do seven seasons as the Saint, just under four years in total…

Comment on PICASSO & IDEALS OF PEACE: Better Red than Fed by Dave

Dave — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:49:06 +0000

Mr. Barowitz,

Thank-you for your letter. You pose some fascinating questions and it would be a pleasure to look into this myself.Best

Comment on PICASSO & IDEALS OF PEACE: Better Red than Fed by Elliott.Barowitz

Elliott.Barowitz — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:37:41 +0000

Can anyone verify or refute the following: I heard at a College Art Assoc. meeting, years ago, that when Max Jacob was rounded up by the Nazis, Picasso said, “Max has wings,” and was unwilling to talk to the Gestapo, with whom he had a relationship with, to intervene on Jacobs behalf. Also Critic, Hilton Kramer, claimed that Picasso sold painting to the very same Gestapo. Much of what I read subsequently seem to refute much of the above. Can anyone help with this?

Comment on the goofball style by Betsy Cory

Betsy Cory — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 05:14:11 +0000

In about 1962 I figured out (by comparing styles) that the person who drew the wonderful Hallmark cards also did some ads for Dupont. The ads were signed “Bran Ham,” so I thought his first name was Bran and last name Ham. I wrote to him by that name in care of Hallmark Cards, and he answered me in a very clever letter. My college roommate borrowed the letter and lost it, and that was the end of the correspondence. Tonight I saw a TV program on Andy Warhol which showed samples of his mother’s handwriting and drawings. (She was an amateur artist.) Very much like Branham’s work! I’d love to get in touch with Branham and ask him if Mrs. Warhol was an influence.

Comment on boutique atheism : babel banter by Dave

Dave — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:08:47 +0000

thanks for the comments. I was crashing and bashing somewhat, but the “celebrity” atheists are grating and constructing a cult industry armed with all the weapons of invidious comparison. You are very eloquent and I hope your remarks are broadly read and discussed. Best

Comment on New Order : elusive holy grail by Dave

Dave — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:03:36 +0000

thanks for the comment. good luck with your web-site which is worthy of recommending to anyone with interest in how occult forces are present and seemingly embedded within our daily lives. Best

Comment on New Order : elusive holy grail by Mordred Pendragon

Mordred Pendragon — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 05:03:24 +0000

The Grail takes various forms throughout history, and has always been subject to include many more idealogies unto it, provided its true goal is met, which is death and destruction of the human race, most notably of the Judaic lineage. Satan hates no race more, than that which God favors.

Comment on Orientalism repackaged by mason

mason — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:51:56 +0000

yeah but edom is one hell of an artist!

Thanks Dave