Tag Archives: Andy Warhol

sinic-thesia: all quarters of the globe revolve

Posted on July 10, 2012 by Dave

The ordinary man was conditioned to want edicts- even if they merely told him, as so many of Mao Zedong’s sayings did, to think for yourself, question authority, and weigh carefully the pros and cons of an action before embarking … Continue reading →

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the great ones

Posted on July 10, 2012 by Dave

by Art Chantry: this is one of those ultra-famous vintage LP covers that never fails to surprise people when they see it. it’s from 1955 and it’s a cover by salvador dali! and what’s even more peculiar is that it’s … Continue reading →

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deep philosophy or conceptual quip?

Posted on July 2, 2012 by Dave

The greatest philosopher in modern art? Or did the art world make him, artificially construct him into a “readymade” himself, the philosopher who would trash tradition and under the pretext of modernism and the new, engage in the kind of … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Andre Breton, Andy Warhol, Bernard von Lindenau, Damien Hirst, francis p. nauman, Giotto, Guillaume Apollinaire, Jeff Koons, Joseph Beuys, Marcel Duchamp, mark polizzotti, Martin Heidegger, rudolf herz, The Enlightenment | Leave a comment

modernism: press the refresh button

Posted on July 1, 2012 by Dave

Modernism as a ready made. The break with the past; the discarding of tradition. The shock of the new. Modernism struck at the heart of the conventional wisdom in the arts which meant that an aesthetic of plot, dramatic incident … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Andy Warhol, anna freud, Art modernism, Damien Hirst, Donald Kuspit, Francis Nauman, francis p. nauman, Franz Kafka, Gustave Courbet, Janis Gallery, John Maynard Keynes, Leonardo Da Vinci, Marcel Duchamp, sidney janis, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

garbage from fizzy to flat

Posted on June 26, 2012 by Dave

It’s great free publicity, but it is a dangerous game. Like a mouse in a cage with a leopard. In a way, you can call it corporate bullying, but then again, the Coca Cola company is used to stepping on … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged Andy Warhol, andy warhol coca cola, Daniel Birnbaum, Henry Miller Coca Cola, robert woodruff, robert woodruff coca cola, Slavoj Zizek Coca Cola, Sodastream Cage, Sodastream Daniel Birnbaum | Leave a comment

those special shades

Posted on May 6, 2012 by Dave

by Art Chantry last night i again watched one of of my favorite director’s (john carpenter) best movies – THEY LIVE! when it was first released in 1988, it was reviewed as the first “anti-yuppie” movie of the reagan era. … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Andy Warhol, art chantry, Banksy, Bruce Nauman, Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, john carpenter director, John Carpenter They Live!, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Shepard Fairey | Leave a comment

a little truth to power

Posted on April 25, 2012 by Dave

The pop culture hacker. Really a post-modern artist and a critic of capitalism, the entire apparatus of the Evil Empire in all its ugly glory and self rationalizations and justifications for the dirty deeds and power to make others do … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Andy Warhol, Diogenes, Guy Debord, John Heartfield, Jonathan McIntosh, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Otto Dix, pop culture hacking, Theodor Adorno, Tolouse Lautrec | Leave a comment

mix and match tradition

Posted on April 22, 2012 by Dave

When a Latin-American artist sculpted the Man on Horseback, one might reasonably expect either a political paean or a stinging satire. Yet neither is the case with the barrel-chested, four-wheeled steed somberly mounted by both George Washington and Simon Bolivar, … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Andy Warhol, Cesar French sculptor, Dadaist Art, Georges Braque, hans hofmann, Louise Nevelson, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marisol Escobar, Pablo Picasso, Roy Lichtenstein | Leave a comment

6 degrees of derealization

Posted on April 15, 2012 by Dave

Its a paradox of sorts, that the great technology of reproduction which ostensibly is supposed to serve memory, in fact tends to make us forget what is memorable: namely a real experience, a conjunction of thought processes and emotions reduced … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged Andy Warhol, Harvey Levenstein, Jane Russell, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marilyn Monroe, Richard Avedon, The Misfits Movie, Vik Muniz | Leave a comment

sinking feeling

Posted on April 15, 2012 by Dave

To Marxists, capitalisms imminent sinking was symbolic in the Titanic. A hundred years later the Commies fell into a pit and capitalism is still around; heavily flawed and perhaps redeemable if the global plutocracy can be dismembered. Oh yeah, that … Continue reading →