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the washington square drips and splatters
Hard to pinpoint what brought them together, this collection of opposites that endured to the end. Arshile Gorky was a late and marginal member in Andre Breton’s surrealist circle and he may have transmitted the importance of trusting introspection, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Abstract expressionism, Andre Breton, Andre masson, Andy Warhol, Arshile Gorky, atelier 17, Clement Greenberg, harold rosenberg art critic, Jackson Pollock, Joan Miro, John Graham, matta echaurren, Pablo Picasso, stanley william hayter, Walt Whitman, willem de Kooning, Yves Tanguay
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liberating the line: painting the bestial floor
Was the use of automatism to pry into abstraction and the subconscious essential to Abstract Expressionism? It can be asserted that it was significant in unlocking the mystery and meaning of the abstract plane; a gateway into the world of … Continue reading
l’amour fou: abstract extreme ambivalence
Surrealism as an inherently anti-woman movement? The female body viewed as primitive machines designed socially,psychologically and mechanically to carry out primitive functions.This intensity and dept of a response to women was a rupture with traditional figurative art, a certain appropriation … Continue reading
Miro and the green paradises of childhood
Perhaps the most striking characteristic of a child’s art is that it cannot go wrong. There are no bad drawings by children; in the same way, there are no bad paintings by Joan Miro. The German dramatist Heinrich von Kleist … Continue reading
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Tagged Adolf Wolfi, Adolf Wolfli, Alberto Giacometti, Alfonso Ossorio, Andre Breton, Andre masson, Carolyn Lancher, Charles Baudelaire, Donald Kuspit, Ernest Hemingway, Heinrich von Kleist, Jean Dubuffet, Joan Miro, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Louise Bourgeois, Matthew Weinstein, Molly Nesbit, Paul Klee, Philip Guston, Robert Rosenblum, Rosalind Krauss
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marvelous automatic: Miro and Roving the Unconscious
Nothing was ever certain about Spanish painter Joan Miro, except the certainty of surprise. A product of rugged , fantasy loving Catalonia, Miro created an unpredictable magic world of forms of his own, that in its way matched together incompatible … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Breton, Andre masson, Arshile Gorky, Chapman Brothers, Ernest Hemingway, Hal Foster, Hans Bellmer, Jackson Pollock, Jacques Doucet, Jacques Viot, Joan Miro, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Louis Aragon, Mark Tobey, Mary Ann Caws, Max Ernst, Melissa Montgomery, Paul Hammond, Paul Klee, Rsalind Krauss, Sigmund Freud, Surrealist painting, Willard Bohn
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back to the garden: Miro and green paradises of childhood
Perhaps the most striking characteristic of a child’s art is that it cannot go wrong. There are no bad drawings by children; in the same way, there are no bad paintings by Joan Miro. The German dramatist Heinrich von Kleist … Continue reading
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Tagged Adolf Wolfi, Adolf Wolfli, Alberto Giacometti, Alfonso Ossorio, Andre Breton, Andre masson, Carolyn Lancher, Charles Baudelaire, Donald Kuspit, Ernest Hemingway, Heinrich von Kleist, Jean Dubuffet, Joan Miro, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Louise Bourgeois, Matthew Weinstein, Molly Nesbit, Paul Klee, Philip Guston, Robert Rosenblum, Rosalind Krauss
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AS SURREAL AS YOU CAN FEEL:Wrong Moon Fever
Barking up the wrong moon? It would be more exact to say that through surrealism, Joan Miro discovered himself. It was as if he suddenly had heard spoken aloud the thoughts he had not even dared to formulate in silence. … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Breton, Andre masson, Donald Kuspit, Giorgio de Chirico, Joan Miro, Lionello Venturi, Louis Aragon, Marc Chagall, Nick Drake, Pablo Picasso, Paul Eluard, Rosalind Krauss, Salvador dali, Sigmund Freud, Surrealism
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DON JUAN & THE SURREALIST JOURNEY TO IXTLAN
A kind of late romanticism that reflected the disenchantment with futurism and other forms of modern art that celebrated technology and progress. The surrealists rejected the notion of cure, healing and the implicit standards of normalcy, or at minimum, the … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Breton, Andre masson, Carlos Castaneda, Freud, Hans Bellmer, Jennifer Mundy, Jouney to Ixtlan, Rene Magritte, Ronald E. Martin, Salvador dali, Sigmund Freud, Surrealism Desire Unbound, Surrealist Manifesto, Yaqui Way of Knowledge
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ABSTRACT PLEASURE, DEEP ROOTED EXPRESSIONISM
Surrealism remained a powerful element in bohemian art and culture long after it had lost its novelty, shine and new car smell. It remained an attractive option for leftist artists and writers who were ill at ease with the post-Trotsky … Continue reading
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Tagged Abstract expressionism, Action painting, Andre Breton, Andre masson, Charles Dickens, Courbet, D.H. Lawrence, Dali, Dominick LaCapra, Freud, Goya, goya Black paintings, Guardian Co. UK, Harold Rosenburg, Jackson Pollock, Joseph Conrad, Jung, Magritte, Mark Rothko, Richard Hughes, Robert Hughes, Robert Motherwell, Sigmund Freud, Theodor Adorno, Virginia Woolf, willem de Kooning
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