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eccentric patrons
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
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joys of movement
by Jesse Marinoff Reyes: 1962 World’s Fair “Century 21 Exposition” United States Commemorative Medal Sculptor: George Tsutakawa (1910-1997) Fifty years ago today, the 1962 World’s Fair opened in Seattle. This little item is probably my favorite that I’ve collected over … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged 1962 Seattle World's Fair, 1962 World's Fair, Alexander Calder, dale chihuly, elvis presley it happened at the world's fair, George Tsutakawa, jesse marinoff reyes, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Richard Powers
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linear madness and crazed impulses
Jesse Marinoff Reyes: The Village Voice January 4, 1994 issue Illustration: J.d. King (b. 1951) Art Director: Jennifer Gilman Design Director: Robert Newman …as in the past few posts I’ve drawn attention to, an illustrator I’ve known and worked with … Continue reading
snap up the bargains: the price is slight
You can think of it as a country fair, a high end flea market, a tombola. There is so much art work out in the hands of collectors that these type of circus events are required as another outlet to … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Calder, alexander calder BMW, Anish Kapoor, Bing Crosby, Elizabeth Taylor Collection, elizabeth taylor jewelry, European Fine art fair, Gerrit Dou, Herve Poulain art car, Lucille Ball, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Michael Ayrton, paul gauguin still life 1917, Tefaf Maastricht, Thorstein Veblen, Westminster Kennels
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fine art “motorama”: hawk to the rubes
Guest blog by Art Chantry.Its a cheezy embarrassing system, one in which the squeaky wheel gets the grease. The most ruthless hustlers and self-promoting con-men become the wealthiest and most celebrated in the fine art world… Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): When … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged adolph gottleib, Alberto Giacometti, Alexander Calder, Andrew Wyeth, Andy Warhol, arnold varga, art chantry, carnegie institute, dale chihuly, Damien Hirst, David Smith, ellsworth kelly, Francis Bacon, Jasper Johns, Jean Dubuffet, Josef Albers, Leonard Baskin, Mark Tobey, max bill, Pablo Picasso, Robert Motherwell
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TAROT GARDEN: Daddy & Arcanes of the Dark Psyche
Not a typical garden….. at least an Eden, chaotic and radical whose gatekeeper was the intuitive feminine whose charged powers of women were absorbed with the magical and spiritual power of objects. Niki De Saint Phalle kept delving deep into … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Alexander Calder, Antonio Gaudi, Betty Friedan, Douglas Eby, Dr. Stephen Diamond, Jasper Johns, Jean Tinguely, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Kyla McDonald, Marella Agnelli, Niki de Saint Phalle, Robert Rauschenberg, Simone de Beauvoir, Tarot Garden
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ECSTASY OF GEOMETRY: READING BETWEEN THE LINES
What was the nature of the quest that moved the Dutch painter Piet Mondrian (1872–1944) to abandon the representation of nature in favor of an art of pure abstraction? What, exactly, did Mondrian believe that he had achieved? In any … Continue reading
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Tagged Aaron S. Esman, Alexander Calder, Amelia Jones, Aniela Jaffe, Blavatsky, Brancusi, Charcot, Daniel H. Caldwell, David Sylvester, Dee Reynolds, Dr. Beth Harris, Dr. Stephen Zucker, Dr. Steven Zucker, Elizabeth Truswell, Fred Jameson, Gary Kennard, Hans J. Kleinschmidt, hans L.C. Jaffa, Harry Cooper, Helene Petrovna Blavatsky, J.J. Sweeney, James W. Hamilton, Justin Wintle, K. Paul Johnson, Kasimir Malevich, Ken Gewertz, Lee Penn, M.H.J Schoenmaekers, Mallarme, Meyer Schapiro, Mick Haggerty, Neil A. Dodgson, Nelly Van Doesburg, Parker Tyler, Phyllis Greenacre, Piet Mondrian, R.E. Kantor, Robert Hughes, Ron Spronk, Rudolf Steiner, Stephen Hicks, Stephen R.C. Hicks, Theo Van Doesburg, Truswell, Virginia Hanson, Wallace Stevens, Wassily Kandinsky, willem de Kooning, Yves-Alain Bois
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A FETISH FOR MOVEMENT
In 1973, Rowland Emett( 1906-1990 ) created The Aqua Horological Tintinnabulator, more popularly known as the Victoria Centre clock, or the Emmet Clock. The unique water-powered structure is an icon of Nottingham and a popular meeting place for shoppers.Mr Emett also … Continue reading
SWING LOW SWEET CHARIOT
”Movement is unpremeditated being; it is the uncritical expression of life. As we begin to meditate we begin to stop living. . . First comes life; and if we meditate prematurely, if we lend to physical things a critical self-consciousness, … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Alexander Calder, Allen Ginsberg, Claes Oldenberg, Dennis Oppenheim, Donald judd, Dylan Thomas, Ethan Coen, Georgia O'keefe, Ingar Dragset, Jackson Pollock, Jean Tinguely, Joel and Ethan, Joel Coen, John Chamberlain, John Constable, Laura Riding, Len Lye, Max Ernst, Michael Elmgreen, miro, No Country for old men film, Picasso, public art, Robert Graves, roger horrocks, W.H. Auden, Wind Wand
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