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Tag Archives: Andy Warhol
art for the sake of creative destruction
Consciousness of the all-mighty dollar is pretty pervasive, even overwhelming. In the modern art world it informs aesthetic and spiritual content like everything else in society, conquering art such that art itself is a pure commodity, a sub-species of money … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Andy Warhol, Bob Dylan, Damien Hirst, David Ganek, Eli Broad, Francis Bacon art, Guy Debord, Jeff Koons, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marc Quinn, Pablo Picasso, Randy Newman, Stephen Wynn, Steven A. Cohen, willem de Kooning
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just shy of 15 minutes
by Art Chantry: i think andy was shot the day after robert f. kennedy was assassinated. so, andy didn’t QUITE get the 15 minutes he thought he should have. largely ignored when it happened.
billions and billions served
Where economics and consumerism and the concept of social justice collide when robotics and consumer commerce grope in some form of embrace. At the moment its more of a media spectacle, although underlying it all is the famous maxim of … Continue reading
tears and fears: RIP (through) holy land
Attack Jerusalem? Launching rockets on the eternal city? Imagine the irony if a Hamas rocket hits the Dome of the Rock? Recoil time to play in the rubble. Something here about Walter Benjamin’s idea of children playing in trash and … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Andy Warhol, anselm kiefer, bernard lewis, Caroline Glick Jerusalem Post, David Rubinger, Gershon Baskin, Golda Meir, Heinrich Bunting, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Max Horkheimer, thomas friedman new york times, tom wesselmann, Walter Benjamin
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its about ideas: language of graphic design
by Art Chantry: i found this mag and snagged it immediately. i ASSUMED it was an early warhol magazine cover (done for the infamous “draw binky” ‘Famous Artists Correspondence School” magazine partly owned by norman rockwell, no less!) but, when … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Andy Warhol, art chantry, Ben Shahn, david stone martin, ed fotheringham, Logan, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, mudhoney piece of cake, nathan gluck, nieman marcus, Norman Rockwell, Paul Klee, William Burroughs
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no contradiction in the long run
Through the centuries the Chinese people have acquired a deeply ingrained respect for authority. Conversely they believe that government ins not the creature of one man, nor the instrument for the strongest will or personality of the day regardless of … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Andy Warhol, Cult of mao Zedong, Dennis Hopper, Dr. Jerome Ch'en, Feng Menbo, Hung Wu first Ming emperor, Lin Piao, Lin Piao Little Red Book, Linda Jaivin, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mao On Contradiction, Mao Zedong, Maoism, Zhou Enlai, Zhu De
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the “oedipal” murder and on to a new era
by Art Chantry: most people try to link my thinking to andy warhol. i get that. my stuff looks a lot like andy’s work becasue we’re both pulling from the same galaxy of americana. he and i had a lot … Continue reading
grease the wheels: gentlemen’s agreements
Return of the dance of the Seven Sisters. The seven occidental oil companies that control world supply, distribution and refining won’t likely arise again. But it is still oil that greases the wheel that makes the world spin. No matter … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged aline kominsky, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Andy Warhol, asma al-Assad, Asma Assad, Asma Assad Louboutin, Bashar Assad Right Said Fred, Exxon I.G. Farben, FDR meets Ibn Saud, Frank Bez, Guy Caruso oil Iran, Harold Ickes, Iran nuclear crisis, Iraq oil production, Lessing Nathan the Wise, Nancy Pelosi Syria, Niall Ferguson, Niall Ferguson Syria, Torkild Rieber, William Stephenson, Zhang Jian, Zhang Jian economist
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jarring sales hustle and aesthetic goals
“Art in the native American mind enjoys the dubious importance attached to the devil in the medieval mind” – Alexander Harvey The artistic imagination enters only rather furtively into economic life. Artistic truth is still revealed not by the artist … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Alexander Harvey, amien Hirst, Andy Warhol, Arnold Hauser, Dean Valentine, Don and Mira Rubel, Donald Kuspit, Henry Ford art collection, Jackson Pollock, joseph duveen, Marcel Duchamp, Mark Rothko, Mira Rubel, Mugrabi art collection, Norman Rockwell, Robert Hughes, Van Gogh Arles
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