Tag Archives: Adrian Searle

eternally recurring youth

A narcissism? A fear of emotion? What does it mean to be human? The death of Mike Kelley this past month forces one to put the concept of the avant-garde on trial; a spotlight on this never grow old, eternally … Continue reading

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when the grim reaper won’t leave

A bit problematic to be German. Still. The long arc of history is easily within an arm’s reach of the old Germany, tortured, and with a romantic sensibility of subject confronted with a bleak Germanism that marked the new realism. … Continue reading

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portrait or spitting image

There is always a complex psychological relationship between the sitter and the painter, since the explosive issue of the construction of identity is a potent assemblage that continues to adapt itself in the modern world. But its often an ambivalent … Continue reading

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on the back of: use and abuse?

Lucian Freud’s art could be termed anti-romantic and confrontational.And just plain creepy.  He tended to represent people as he saw them, and between what he perceived and came out on canvas we will never really understand all the processes involved. … Continue reading

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fame suckers

The following are some quotes from a Donald Kuspit article that seems an apt critique of much of popular culture in general. Kuspit is really an important voice in art criticism since his views on art and culture are situated … Continue reading

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Poetics of absence: chasing the vanishing points

Turmoil of life under the soviets and after? Its a critique against the “mask of beauty” after the uprising of post-soviet capitalism. In such a panoply of visual images that Russia affords, how can a photographer capture the truth; a … Continue reading

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SPIRIT WORLD: Talking With a Famished Lion About Poetry

The French painter Henri Rousseau (1844-1910) pursued an ideal in his quest to capture a spirit of innocence. While still very much rooted in French city life, and for many-years a conventional man, he nevertheless projected images of an exotic … Continue reading

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ROUSSEAU & THE COUCH IN THE JUNGLE: Landscape of Hallucination

It’s been said, oversimplistically but sympathetically, that “he didn’t know the rules well enough to break them”. But of course there are no rules in the kingdom of the imagination.He knew he was a babe in the woods of high … Continue reading

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THE TOLL COLLECTOR: Riddle of the Dreamworld

What was a nude on a sofa doing in the middle of the jungle? It was all quite simple, said Henri Rousseau: “You will no longer find that amazing in the future?”  The artist’s ability to combine naturalistic elements in … Continue reading

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HASTEN THE PROCESS:MORE VALUABLE DEAD THAN ALIVE

For it was, in fact, after a conversation with Dr. Gachet that van Gogh, as if nothing were the matter, went back to his room and killed himself. It was not because of himself, because of the disease of his … Continue reading

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