Tag Archives: Andy Warhol

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 →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Adam Kirsch, Alain Badiou, Andy Warhol, Bell Hooks, Bell Hooks Outlaw Culture, Guy Debord, Jacques Lacan, James Cameron, James Cameron Titanic, Kate Winslet, Leonardo DiCaprio, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Slavoj Zizek, Titanic 100th anniversary | Leave a comment

bumpy ride: back seat hider

Posted on April 14, 2012 by Dave

Mobilize yourself. Come travel but forgo aesthetic or metaphorical niceties. Its a bumpy ride in the early days of conceptual art especially one aimed to outrage, aimed at the perceived social castration, aimed at a nightmarish urban vision. Disaffection personified … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Allan Ginsberg, Andy Warhol, Ed Kienholz, edward kienholz, Guy Debord, Jack Kerouac, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Meyer Schapiro, Robert Hughes | Leave a comment

party time

Posted on April 14, 2012 by Dave

One part not to miss: The Cocktail Party by Marisol Escobar. Composed of fifteen life-sized figures, wearing variations- in plaster or plastic- of Marisol’s own face, the work, the exhibit coolly demonstrates the wooden sameness of such affairs, varied only … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Andy Warhol, Arts Students League New York, hans hoffman, Jepson School Los Angeles, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marisol Escobar, Pop Art movement | Leave a comment

secretaries of state

Posted on April 12, 2012 by Dave

The Society of the Spectacle. Pseudo events. The event becomes at best, an entertaining adjunct to the advertising and fundraising. The event is depersonalized and used to move product; stripped of its subjective meaning, the message becomes tailored to stimulate … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged Alfred Jarry, Andy Warhol, buffett rule, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Duchamp, Miley Cyrus, Obama 2012, occupy wall street, pierre bourdieu, Sean Lennon, Vanessa Beecroft, Warren Buffett, Yves Klein | Leave a comment

blink of a pop culture eye

Posted on April 11, 2012 by Dave

by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) back in the mid-sixties, just as the ‘british invasion” of the american pop music charts was peaking and the post war baby-boom overkill of teenage culture was reaching a fever pitch – acid hit. in … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged Andy Warhol, art chantry, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, haight-ashbury, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mike Appel, roger corman movies, Strawberry Alarm Clock, The Amboy Dukes, The Balloon Farm, The Grateful Dead | Leave a comment

not close enuff

Posted on April 10, 2012 by Dave

by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) william golden designed the brand/identity/corporate graphic system (and, of course that amazing logo) for william paley’s CBS broadcasting corp. back in the late 40′/early 50′s. with this incredibly sophisticated and extraordinarily smart effort and his … Continue reading →