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turtle

by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com): cool “fake psych” image of the day..i think the dodge super bee was knocking off the SUPER TURTLE!…not real psych. that stuff created by business to sell product to “youth.” it’s completely different than real … Continue reading

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maxxed out to the max

peter max….. the illustrator next door. Copy. Appropriate. But is there some genuine style? Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): Everybody is sick of Peter Max, right? He’s become the ultimate cliche of the 1960′s, right up there with peace signs and flower … Continue reading

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sock it to them: laughing last in our discontent

Laugh-In. canned laughter and forced hip…. Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): In the mid to late 1960′s, the psychedelic underground revolution had already started to wane. it was a literal flash-in-the-pan. All of the original pioneers had morphed into varying sorts of … Continue reading

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self help: some things never change

Self help. Its been around forever it seems…. Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): Magazine cover of the month! Psychology Magazine (“the standard publication of practical, inspirational and applied psychology”). vol. XII, No. 2. February, 1929. official motto? “HEALTH! HAPPINESS! SUCCESS!” Even though … Continue reading

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our humble abode: serving the pious dandy?

For Antoni Gaudi, as for the devout in the Middle Ages, almost anything in the universe could be read as a religious symbol. The Sagrada Familia is symbolic not only in its profusion of figurative sculpture and its conventional Christian … Continue reading

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edible beauty and the great primeval hunger

Antoni Gaudi was a pioneer in architecture, still misunderstood and misinterpreted as something of a freak rather than a creator of an emotional, organic and innovative style that foreshadowed the work of Freud and the surrealism of Andre Breton. “Maybe … Continue reading

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bending and twisting under desire’s distorting pleasures

Antoni Gaudi was the great outsider of modern architecture. He was likely the inspired freak some detractors claimed, but he was also the father of an organic emotional style and ultimately a supreme artist…..In spite of these efforts at rehabilitation, … Continue reading

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gaudi: iron maidens, heavy metal and a lightness of being

… For fences, railings, doors and various unnamable ornaments his favorite material was iron, sometimes in a laminated or cast form, but usually wrought; and here again he had rich local resources from which to draw ideas. Ironwork had been … Continue reading

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Gaudi addicted to an ecstasy of modernismo

Antoni Gaudi. He was the great outsider of modern architecture. He was likely both an inspired freak and the creator of an emotional, organic style. A supreme artist. …. The spread of the dates of his major works and the … Continue reading

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