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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
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
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Adrian Searle, anne purves, Augustus John, british art journal, darren baker, Graham Sutherland, Jamie Reid The Sex Pistols, john brack, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Lucian Freud, Rembrandt, robin simon, Rogier van der Weyden, rolf harris, sam fullbrook, sebastien smee, sir john kiszely, yousuf karsh
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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
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft, Uncategorized
Tagged Adrian Searle, Andy Warhol, D.W. Winnicott, Donald Kuspit, elizabeth peyton, Elizabeth Taylor, Frida Kahlo, Keith Richards, Kurt Cobain, Oscar Wilde, portrait of dorian gray
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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
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
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Adrian Searle, Alfred Jarry, Alice B. Toklas, Andre Derain, Arnie Greenberg, Arnold Hauser, Arsene Alexandre, Byron, Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Green, Cornelia Stabenow, Dennis Walder, Eugene Delacroix, Felix Auguste-Clement, Georges Braque, Georges Rouault, Gertrude Stein, Guillaume Apollinaire, Gustave Flaubert, Henri Matisse, Henri Rousseau, Jean Leon Gerome, Jill Fell, K. Kimberly King, Marie Laurencin, Max Weber, Nancy Ireson, Nancy Pinard, Pablo Picasso, Pam Rosenthal, Redon, Richard Jinman, Richard Powers, Robert Hughes, Roger Shattuck, Wilhelm Uhde
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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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Tagged Adrian Searle, Alfred Jarry, Andre Breton, Arsene Alexandre, August Macke, Christopher Green, Cornelia Stabenow, Douglas Cooper, Emil Nolde, Eugene Delacroix, Franz Roh, Gauguin, Guillaume Apollinaire, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Herbie Hancock, Herschel B. Chipp, Herschel Browning Chipp, Jean Cocteau, Jean Leon Gerome, Jill Fell, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Matisse, Michael Hoog, Montague Ullman, Odilon Redon, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Paul Klee, Pechstein, Robert Delaunay, Roger Shattuck, Seurat, Sigmund Freud, Signac, Virginia Chandler, Wassily Kandinsky, Wilhelm Uhde
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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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Tagged Adrian Searle, Andre Breton, Andre Malraux, Andrew Graham Dixon, Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Green, Dietmer Elger, Fernand Leger, Franz Roh, G. Fernandez, Guillaume Apollinaire, Henri Rousseau, Hershel Browning Chipp, Jan van Eyck, Mark Harden, Max Ernst, Michael Hoog, Montague Ullman, Pablo Picasso, Rene Magritte, Robert Goldwater, Roger Shattuck, Virginia Chandler, Wilhelm Uhde
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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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Tagged Adrian Searle, Alyson Richman Berkley, Bonnie Burstow, Cynthia Rodriguez, Daubigny, David Carmichael, Dietrich Blumer, Dr. Jan Hulsker, Dr. Peyron, Hirschig, Jean Francois Pierre Peyron, John Dorsey, Joseph Brean, Lesley Stern, Marc-Edo Tralbaut, Marguerite Gachet, Norbert Goeneutte, Pat Collucci, Paul-Ferdinand Gachet, Theo van Gogh, Tom Hirschig, Vincent Van Gogh
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