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Tag Archives: Damien Hirst
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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the burden
by Art Chantry: chris burden embodies everything i love and hate about the fine art world. his work is sensational and violent and ‘destructo ‘- total BOY stuff. i love it to death. but, it’s also completely and utterly shallow … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend
Tagged art chantry, Banksy and Chris Burden, Chris Burden, Chris Burden Shoot, Damien Hirst, Henry Gallery University of Washington, Jeff Koons, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, paul mccarthy art, Richard Prince, robert venturi
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deep philosophy or conceptual quip?
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
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modernism: press the refresh button
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
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doing battle with the muse: not a-mused
Is it intrinsic to modern art in general, a kind of withdrawal into a space, a locus of narcissistic preoccupation and obligation? A space where fear of the object leads to mistreatment of it. The aggressive and destructive impulses, which … Continue reading
those special shades
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
art as locusts: hunters and gatherers
Way back when, the French Salon had commodified painting as merchandise and the Salon itself became a gigantic salesroom, for at best inconsequential work of men sometimes technically gifted who understood the manipulation of trite, generic formula mixed with an … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Andy Warhol, burne-jones, burne-jones the golden stairs, Damien Hirst, For Heaven's Sake Damien Hirst, Jehan Georges Vibert, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Duchamp, paul mccarthy art
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the pain and beauty of it all
Poignant. Heart tugging. Hard to imagine that an immensely talented artist like Edward Landseer, a technical gymnast and stuntman could waste time plumbing the depths of anecdotal gimmick. A weird tryst between feeding increasingly affluent purchasers with the most tacky … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged Andy Warhol, Charles Dickens, Damien Hirst, Edward Landseer, French Salon painting, gilbert and george, Joseph Beuys, Julian Schnabel, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, marshall berman, sir edward landseer
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full circle
Sometimes things become intertwined in a full circle that initially escapes us since the assumed understanding is based on enlightenment principles guided by the linear progression of science and technology where evolution is rational and explainable. In Donald Kuspit’s The … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Alexandre Cabanel, Andy Warhol, Damien Hirst, Edward Landseer, Francis Bacon, French Salon painting, Jean Leon Gerome, Jeff Koons, Madame Pickwick, Marcel Duchamp, Marquis de Sade, Norman Rockwell, odd nerdrum, Sarah Bernhardt
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