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war and conflict: those pauses that refresh
Its the ultimate kitsch product. Coke. All style and form. No substance. Something with multiple layers of meaning exposing a vast fictionality of the object situated in a space between reality and illusion. Kitsch. Both imitative and its negation, kitsch … Continue reading
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Tagged alan schechner, Alexandre Trauner, Andy Warhol, Billy Wilder, Clement Greenberg, Courbet, Henry Miller, Jean Baudrillard, Jean-Luc Godard, Marcel Duchamp, Milan Kundera, Norman Rockwell, robert woodruff coca cola, Slavoj Zizek, Walter Benjamin
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FRENCH KISS IN THE DERRIERE: SKINNING THE RATS
He whose image we offer you, And whose art, subtle above all others’, Teaches us to laugh at ourselves, That man, reader, is a sage. –Charles Baudelaire, Verses in Honor of the Portrait of Monsieur Honoré Daumier The technique of … Continue reading
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Tagged Bruce Laughton, Caran D'Arche, Charles Baudelaire, Charles Philipon, Corot, Courbet, Duncan Philips, Edgar Degas, Emile Zola, Etienne Carjat, Eugene Delacroix, Forain, French Caricature, French Comics History, Gustave Dore, Gustave Flaubert, Henri Loyrette, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Henry Mayhew, Honore Daumier, Honore de Balzac, James F. McMillan, Max Miroff, Paul Gavarni, Pierre Joseph Proudhon, Wilhelm Busch
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AN AURAL EROTIC:DRUNK WITH PASSION
It was infinite ecstasy with ”la belle dame sans merci”. By the time of Berlioz’s ”Symphonie Fantastique” , he had won the Conservatoire’s Prix de Rome, a five year fellowship that entailed two years of residence at the French Academy … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexandre Cabanel, Bach, Benvenuto Cellini, Berlioz, Byron Childe Harolde, Camille Moke, Courbet, Eleanor Holmes, Ernest Newman, Franz Liszt, Goethe, Harriet Smithson, Hector Berlioz, J.H. Eliot, John William Waterhouse, Lord Byron, Mozart, Niccolo Paganini, Pleyel Pianos, Richard Wagner, Shakespeare, The Berlioz Enigma J.H. Eliot, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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PICASSO & WOMEN IN WAITING
”The Europeans had shown the way; yet the avant-garde American artists had to work desperately to break away from the influence of the School of Paris and especially from that Olympian, Pablo Picasso. Like the Collective Unconscious or the dreams … Continue reading
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Tagged Arshile Gorky, Chaim Koppelman, Courbet, Eli Siegel, Eugene Delacroix, Jackson Pollock, Pablo Picasso, Picasso, Velasquez, willem de Kooning, William De Kooning
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FAMILIAR TRUTHS IN ''A PIMP'S PROFESSION''
“I never knew of but one artist, and this is Tom Eakins, who could resist the temptation to see what they think ought to be rather than what is.” – Walt Whitman. If the self-portrait below does not appear especially jubilant, … Continue reading
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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